November 18, 2016
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November 16, 2016
Direct Energy Launches First Bundled Connected Home, Energy Offer Featuring Hive Brand
Direct Energy has launched its first connected home bundle featuring products from Hive, the connected home brand initially launched by its parent Centrica in the United Kingdom
November 15, 2016
New Texas Retail Provider Offering Community Solar Through New Alliance
TriEagle Energy is offering North Texas customers a community solar product (SunEagle) through an alliance with Cypress Creek Renewables
November 14, 2016
Oncor Reports 75% of REP Low-Income Smart Energy Device Reimbursement Funds Exhausted
Oncor informed retail electric providers that 75% of funds designated to reimburse retail electric providers for providing free programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays (collectively, in-home devices) to low-income customers have been exhausted
November 11, 2016
Texas PUC Chair Remains Concerned About Customer Confusion If PUC Adopts Rule Allowing Third Parties To Sign Distributed Generation Interconnection Agreements, As PUC Lacks Jurisdiction, Ability To Give Customer Redress Against Third Parties
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will consider further at its next open meeting a proposal for adoption which would permit non-end users to be parties to distributed generation interconnection agreements (IAs), as Chairman Donna Nelson reiterated concerns about customer expectations regarding…
November 11, 2016
Texas PUC Commissioners Struggle With Recommendations on Alternative Ratemaking
During yesterday's open meeting, Texas PUC Commissioners struggled with what, if any, recommendations should be made concerning alternative ratemaking mechanisms.
November 11, 2016
Citing "Intense Pressure" On Solar Margins, Retail Supplier Removes Guidance For Contribution From Solar Unit
Large Retail Supplier Looking At Entering Texas For Solar
Just Energy has removed from its guidance for fiscal 2017 Base EBITDA any contributions from its solar unit.
November 9, 2016
Texas PUC Staff Schedule Workshop in RMR Rulemaking
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have scheduled for December 14 a workshop on the rulemaking concerning Reliability Must-Run service in Project 46369
November 7, 2016
TCEH Corp., TXU Parent, Adopts New Name
TCEH Corp., the parent of TXU Energy and Luminant announced a new name for the company: Vistra Energy Corp.
November 7, 2016
CenterPoint: Additional "Opportunistic" Retail Acquisitions Possible
During an earnings call on Friday, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. CEO Scott Prochazka said the company's goal is to grow its competitive energy services business, and is open to opportunistic acquisitions
November 4, 2016
Texas PUC To Consider Impact On Customer Choice Implementation From New Generation Proposed By Entergy Texas
The Public Utility Commission of Texas would consider the impact on the implementation of customer choice at Entergy Texas in considering Entergy Texas's request for a CCN to build a new 1,000 MW ratebased power plant, under a draft preliminary order and list of issues
November 3, 2016
License Briefs
SmartEnergy Holdings Seeks Supplier License In New State
November 2, 2016
ERCOT Expects Sufficient Capacity For Upcoming Winter And Spring
ERCOT currently expects to have enough generation capacity available to serve the region’s electricity demands this winter and next spring.
November 2, 2016
TXU, Affiliates See Steady Retail Customer Count During Third Quarter
The competitive retail electric suppliers formerly owned by Energy Future Holdings, including TXU Energy and 4Change Energy, saw no net change in their customer count from June 30, 2016 to September 30, 2016, according to an EFH 10-Q.
November 1, 2016
Texas Generators: RMR Contracts Should Require ERCOT Board Approval
Reliability Must Run should require ERCOT Board approval, several NRG Energy subsidiaries said in comments to the Texas PUC concerning an RMR rulemaking
November 1, 2016
AEP Takes $2.3 Billion Impairment Charge Related To Competitive Generation
AEP in reporting earnings this morning said that it took a pre-tax impairment charge of $2.3 billion in third-quarter 2016 largely to write-down AEP's remaining competitive generation assets in Ohio to their estimated fair value.
November 1, 2016
NextEra Touts Gexa's Smaller Texas Market Share Vs. TXU In Application To Acquire Oncor
NextEra Energy, Inc. and Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC have filed an application at the Public Utility Commission of Texas for approval for NextEra to acquire Oncor, which touts NextEra's smaller retail market share, compared to TXU, in addressing affiliate concerns
October 31, 2016
Texas REPs Request Refund Data Be Eliminated From PUC Complaint Report, Noting Data Labels Goodwill, Other Courtesy Credits As "Refunds"
In response to a draft Texas PUC 2016 Summary of Customer Complaints and Enforcement Activities proposed to be published, several retail electric providers recommended that the graphs entitled "% of Complaints Resulting in Customer Refunds - FY 2016" and "Average Refund - FY 2016" be eliminated from…
October 31, 2016
NextEra Energy Reaches Agreement For Affiliate To Merge With Minority Owner Of Oncor, Would Result In NextEra Owning 100% Of Oncor, Given Other Transactions
NextEra Energy, Inc. today announced it has reached an agreement for an affiliate to merge with Texas Transmission Holdings Corporation ("TTHC"), including TTHC's approximately 20 percent indirect interest in Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC ("Oncor"), for merger consideration of approximately $2…
October 31, 2016
Texas PUC Chair Nelson Concerned With Implications From Lack Of Jurisdiction Over Third-Party DG Providers, In Distributed Generation Interconnection Rule
In addressing a rulemaking that would permit non-end users to be parties to distributed generation interconnection agreements (IAs), Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, expressed concern with the implications from having entities, over which the PUC lacks jurisdiction…
October 28, 2016
Texas PUC Chair Nelson: Opening Entergy Texas To Retail Choice, "Worthy Of Consideration"
The idea of transitioning Entergy Texas to retail competition, "is something that is always worthy of consideration," although, "we haven't given a lot of additional thought to that," Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said in response to a question at the National Energy…
October 27, 2016
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State Launches New Energy Shopping Website
October 27, 2016
TEPA Names Retail Supplier of the Year
The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) named Constellation as the TEPA Supplier of the Year during the organization's 11th Annual Conference on October 13, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
October 26, 2016
TEPA Names ABC Of The Year
EMEX, LLC said that it was named 2016 TEPA ABC (Aggregator/Broker/Consultant) of the Year by The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) during the organization's 11th Annual Conference on October 13, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
October 25, 2016
Texas Staff Recommend Briefing Question of Forum To Determine Whether Utilities Can, Should Own Batteries Under Texas Law (Project Versus Contested Case)
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, in a proposed list of issues in AEP Texas's application to install two grid-scale batteries to address distribution system reliability (click here for story) , said that parties should first brief whether a generic project, versus a contested case, is…