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October 18, 2017
REP Grows By 50,000 RCEs in Eight Months, Projects 2017 Revenues
Discount Power (Texas), a Houston-based retail electric provider, today announced that the company’s RCE (Residential Customer Equivalent) count has crossed 200,000.
October 16, 2017
A Texas ALJ in a proposal for decision would conclude that AEP Texas' application to install two battery storage facilities on its distribution grid would not constitute a competitive service nor would it constitute utility ownership of generation, and the ALJ recommends approval of AEP Texas'…
October 13, 2017
XOOM Energy Texas, LLC said that it has partnered with the third largest employer in the Coastal Bend (Texas), Driscoll Children’s Hospital, to offer a new plan that allows customers to help the hospital's cause
October 13, 2017
Alcoa Corporation announced that the company and power provider Luminant Generation Company LLC have terminated the electricity contract tied to Alcoa’s Rockdale Operations in Texas.
October 13, 2017
A study performed by the Brattle Group, sponsored by First Solar Inc., Vistra Energy Corp., and the Wind Coalition, says that implementing marginal losses in ERCOT would result in only 0.13% in production cost savings, while reducing generator net revenues
October 13, 2017
Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, today announced that it will close two coal-fueled power plants in Central Texas: its two-unit Sandow Power Plant in Milam County and its two-unit Big Brown Power Plant in Freestone County. In total, approximately 2,300 MW of nameplate power will be taken…
October 12, 2017
Tenaska Retail Supplier Seeks Authority To Serve New Service Areas
October 11, 2017
The Alliance for Retail Markets filed reply comments in Texas PUC Project 47343: Rulemaking To Amend Chapter 25 Substantive Rules Relating To The Elimination Of The System Benefit Fund
October 11, 2017
REPs Required To Pass-Through TDU Savings To Ex-Sharyland Customers
The Public Utility Commission of Texas today adopted final orders which approve an asset swap among Oncor and Sharyland Utilities that will see the Sharyland Utilities distribution assets (and retail customers) become part of Oncor, and under which a system-wide tariff will apply at Oncor, including…
October 11, 2017
The Public Utility Commission of Texas today adopted a final order that finds that Current Utilities, Inc. engaged in activities as an electricity aggregator without first registering with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and the PUC imposed a $15,000 administrative penalty on Current…
October 10, 2017
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted start-up RossBailey & Associates, LLC an electric aggregator certificate.
October 10, 2017
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed a petition to "correct" the REP certificate number granted to Eligo Energy TX, LLC
October 9, 2017
Pogo Energy LLC filed with the Texas PUC a statement of intent to provide retail electric service using a Customer Prepayment Device or System (CPDS).
October 9, 2017
Rebrands, Expanding Company, Names New COO
Just Energy recently acquired the commercial energy brokerage and consulting divisions of Save On Energy, LLC, and has rebranded the acquired division as Interactive Energy Group LLC (IEG)
October 6, 2017
Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, today announced plans to retire all three units at its Monticello Power Plant in Titus County, Texas.
October 6, 2017
Offers Other Retail Market Related Commitments
In Sempra Energy's application before the Texas PUC to acquire Oncor, Sempra has offered several regulatory commitments related to the retail market, including proposed bill credits resulting from certain savings.
October 5, 2017
Company To File For Texas PUC Approval Today
Sempra Energy announced a revised agreement to acquire Energy Future Holdings, and thus Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, which includes a new financing structure, under which Sempra Energy proposes to now acquire 100 percent of EFH at the close of the transaction with no third-party equity…
October 5, 2017
ERCOT has received Notifications of Suspension of Operations (NSOs) for the following Generation Resources:
October 5, 2017
Several Texas low-income and other consumer groups petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas to adopt enhanced customer protections for victims of Hurricane Harvey, and to require REPs to offer such protections, to be in place for one year after adoption of the rule.
October 3, 2017
In comments on the Hogan-Pope whitepaper on price formation issues in ERCOT's energy market, the South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) again advocated for allowing demand response providers in ERCOT to be able to participate in the market without taking on the…
October 2, 2017
Vistra Suggests Price Adder When Thermal Resources Needed To Serve Load, But Are Not Price-Setting
Commenting on a whitepaper on price formation issues in the ERCOT market commissioned by NRG and Calpine, Vistra Energy said that rather than addressing the drivers of low energy prices in ERCOT, the proposals from the NRG/Calpine whitepaper would not address such drivers and instead the proposals…
October 2, 2017
In comments on the Hogan-Pope whitepaper on price formation issues in ERCOT's energy market, South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. said that, to the extent marginal loss pricing is adopted, retail electric providers should be compelled to pass-through any marginal loss surplus to their customers
September 29, 2017
ENGIE Retail, LLC d/b/a Think Energy would pay $40,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Think Energy's alleged violation of 16 Tex. Admin. Code §§ 25.480(m) and (j)(8) (TAC), concerning removal of switch-holds, for the company's alleged failure in…
September 29, 2017
During a discussion concerning a stipulation and proposed order in an Oncor rate case, which is linked to a global stipulation for Oncor to acquire the Sharyland Utilities distribution service areas, Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas agreed to include a provision which will…
September 29, 2017
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday adopted an order extending the requirement for Retail Electric Providers (REPs) to offer deferred payment plans to customers upon request in areas covered by Governor Abbott's disaster declarations as contemplated by P.U.C. Subst. R. 25.480(j)(1)(B)
