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January 24, 2014
The expansion of electric choice to the former Cap Rock service areas, now part of Sharyland Utilities, is on track for a May 1 start date after the Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday approved unbundled delivery rates for the service area.
January 23, 2014
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reject, "a traditional 'capacity market' system," for the following reasons:
January 23, 2014
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson has proposed retaining Brattle to conduct an "apples to apples" comparison of costs for various resource adequacy policy options before the Commission.
January 23, 2014
ERCOT yesterday posted a preliminary load forecast using a preliminarily revised methodology, and if the new forecast peak loads are inputted into the May 2013 Capacity, Demand and Reserves report, ERCOT is forecast to have a reserve margin in excess of 16% until 2019.
January 22, 2014
Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC (DEFG) has released its 2014 Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), which identifies the states that have the most active retail electricity markets in North America.
January 22, 2014
TXU to Pay Customers $37 Million in Cashback Rewards
January 22, 2014
A Texas retail electric provider has newly notified the Public Utility Commission of Texas of its intent to offer prepaid service.
January 20, 2014
Direct Energy has completed the previously announced sale of three gas-fired power generation facilities in Texas to Blackstone for $685 million.
January 20, 2014
Peak demand in ERCOT increased only 1% in 2013, ERCOT confirmed in its recently released Demand and Energy Report.
January 20, 2014
Reliant has begun offering new customers a pair of free Justin Boots.
January 17, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication containing revisions to the Pro-Forma Retail Delivery Tariff.
January 17, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a revised draft proposal for adoption concerning the Provider of Last Resort rules to ensure that, in cases where an affiliate assumes the obligation of a Large Service Provider (LSP, aka non-volunteer POLR), the original Large Service…
January 16, 2014
Ohio Approves New Retail Price Adjustment for Default Service
January 15, 2014
A white paper by ICF International regarding recent grid emergency conditions prompted by the polar vortex notes that forced outages in PJM as a percentage of generation were four times higher than forced outages in ERCOT.
January 15, 2014
Sharyland Utilities, L.P. will be mailing to customers a letter informing them that they must select a retail electric provider by April 13, 2014 if they do not wish to be transitioned to the default retail electric provider.
January 15, 2014
One of the founders of Tara Energy is among the upstream ownership of a new Texas retail electric provider.
January 14, 2014
Ambit Energy announced that it will be expanding service to Virginia and New Hampshire.
January 14, 2014
GDF SUEZ Energy Resources Enters Exclusive Partnership to Provide Customers with Market, Pricing Data
January 14, 2014
ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resource:
January 14, 2014
NextEra Energy Power Marketing, LLC would pay $5,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve its alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocol § 6.4.3.1, relating to energy offer curves for RUC-committed resources.
January 14, 2014
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January 13, 2014
The Texas Third Court of Appeals has affirmed a Public Utility Commission of Texas decision which had ruled that municipalities are not authorized to be certificated as a retail electric provider under PURA.
January 10, 2014
FirstEnergy Solutions Offering Six-Year Rate in New Territory
January 10, 2014
Texas Public Utility Commissioners yesterday indicated that the next resource adequacy open meeting/workshop, originally contemplated for late January and then February, will now likely be held in late March.
January 10, 2014
TXU has begun offering Texas electric customers a product which pays high usage customers a credit of up to $50 per month.
