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December 16, 2013
Entergy Corporation and ITC Holdings Corp. announced Friday that the companies have mutually agreed to end their pursuit of a spin off and merger of Entergy's transmission business with ITC.
December 13, 2013
ERCOT and the Independent Market Monitor have filed a report with the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning Real-Time Co-optimization of Energy and Ancillary Services in the ERCOT Markets
December 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft order to adopt revised Provider of Last Resort rules (Subst. R. 25.43) to allow a retail electric provider to assign its responsibility to serve as a Large Service Provider (LSP, aka non-volunteer POLR) to an affiliate.
December 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has proposed a series of questions for stakeholder comment in a project (42030) evaluating the sharing of customer information with third parties for customer approved services, "to gather information to assist staff in evaluating the Commission's…
December 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication containing proposed revisions to Subst. R. 25.272, relating to Code of Conduct for electric utilities and their affiliates.
December 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a recommendation regarding a review of whether changes to the retail electric provider certification rules, and/or Provider of Last Resort rules, require changes in light of the higher system-wide offer caps in place in the ERCOT market.
December 12, 2013
"My gosh, what a great way to start getting a market opened up," Pat Wood, former Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said of opt-out municipal aggregation during a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio hearing on PUCO's retail electric market investigation.
December 11, 2013
The Mississippi PSC has denied the application of ITC Holdings, through a subsidiary, to acquire the transmission assets of Entergy Mississippi.
December 11, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas should require retail electric providers to be re-certified by the Commission every two years, Texas Legal Services Center and Texas Ratepayers' Organization to Save Energy proposed in a rulemaking concerning REP certification rules (Subst. R. 25.107).
December 10, 2013
ERCOT has proposed replacing, for certain customers, the current mailer required to be sent by ERCOT to customers transitioned to POLR with email and phone notifications.
December 10, 2013
An analysis prepared for Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson concludes that a study by Charles Rivers Associates commissioned by NRG Energy, which purports to show savings to gross state product from adopting a capacity market, contains numerous "errors in assumptions and calculations…
December 10, 2013
"We have found no evidence to suggest that prepaid electricity is in the best interests of residential consumers, especially low-income consumers," Texas Ratepayers’ Organization to Save Energy (ROSE) said in a new report concerning prepaid service offered by retail electric providers.
December 6, 2013
State Senator Wendy Davis, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2014 Texas gubernatorial election, said in a letter to Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson that, "the PUC must not make any changes to the electricity market that would burden hardworking Texas families and the…
December 5, 2013
TXU Energy has released details of its "Listening Program" to improve customer service.
December 5, 2013
Reliant is offering Texas customers a $200 incentive to sign up on Reliant's 14-month fixed rate plan.
December 3, 2013
ERCOT filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas its report on the monthly coincident peak (4CP) Loads in the ERCOT system for the months of June, July, August and September 2013 (2013 4CP Report). The 4CP dates were June 27, July 31, August 7, and September 3. The report, including load by…
December 3, 2013
energy.me midwest llc d/b/a energy.me applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider license
December 2, 2013
Calpine Corporation this morning announced that it has agreed to purchase a nominal 1,050 megawatt, combined-cycle power plant for $625 million, or approximately $595 per kilowatt, exclusive of adjustments relating to development rights and working capital, from MinnTex Power Holdings, LLC, a…
November 27, 2013
Luminant Energy Company, LLC would pay $750,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning the alleged failure of several Luminant units on February 2, 2011, to be on-line at an output level at least equal to each unit's low sustained limit (LSL) within 25…
November 26, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted Ecom-Energy of California, Inc. an electric aggregator certificate.
November 26, 2013
During yesterday's hearing at the Texas Senate, Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and PUCT Commissioner Brandy Marty both emphasized that, if Texas ultimately adopted a capacity mandate, the design would be unique to Texas.
November 26, 2013
A capacity mandate in ERCOT would increase costs and harm the Texas economy, two large employers, Wal-Mart and Valero, told the Texas Senate yesterday
November 26, 2013
The fiction that without a mandated reserve margin ERCOT is going to drop to about an equilibrium 9% reserve margin -- the unsupported narrative offered by the Brattle report -- was derided by Texas Senators given that 14 years of operation of the energy-only market have never seen anything come…
November 26, 2013
4Change Energy is offering new customers a $100 incentive for enrollment.
November 25, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted start-up retail electric provider OriGen Energy LLC an Option 1 Texas REP certificate.
