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September 27, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have proposed annual assessments on certain retail electric providers to fund the public online broadcasting of Commission meetings, consistent with statute.
September 26, 2013
Duke Energy Renewables announced that it will build two large-scale wind power facilities in South Texas.
September 26, 2013
The market design, and constant changes, of PJM's Reliability Pricing Model has been likened to the game of "Whack-A-Mole" by Exelon CFO and Executive Vice President Jonathan Thayer, as Thayer also warned that the market is replacing "steel in the ground" generation with new build generation that…
September 26, 2013
Green Mountain Energy has launched a new program in Texas that provides customers with 100% solar power, and directs a portion of customer payments to build new solar generation not sited at the customer's premises.
September 25, 2013
Direct Energy Expands Program with Pennsylvania School District Service Agency
September 25, 2013
Some electricity consumers could participate more actively in the Texas electric market in the future, following actions by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Board of Directors at its Sept. 17 meeting, ERCOT said yesterday
September 25, 2013
Several retail electric providers have urged the Public Utility Commission of Texas to adopt a new rule which would prohibit a utility from sharing any same brand, logo, or any identifying brand feature with a competitive affiliate engaged in competitive electric service in Texas.
September 24, 2013
Entergy Texas Refiles to Transfer Transmission to ITC
September 24, 2013
"Despite the claims of a few incumbent generators, there is no impending disaster or reliability emergency requiring radical action," Texas Industrial Energy Consumers said in comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
September 24, 2013
Texas customers filing comments yesterday at the Public Utility Commission of Texas were universal in their opposition to a mandated reserve margin.
September 24, 2013
The parent of a Texas retail electric provider, in a push for a mandated reserve margin and centralized capacity market, has said that electricity is, "an essential part of life," and therefore, "Texans expect and deserve electric service 100% of the time " (emphasis added).
September 23, 2013
ERCOT said in a market notice that it has identified a potential problem with the implementation of NPRR 416, Creation of the RUC Resource Buyback Provision, which is scheduled for release this week.
September 20, 2013
ERCOT Issues Proposed Protocol Language for Operating Reserves Demand Curve
September 20, 2013
"It is difficult to declare the [ISO New England] capacity market a success if a significant number of the resources that have been selected and compensated as capacity resources fail to perform as needed," Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development for ISO New England, said in comments at…
September 20, 2013
Proton Energy has denied the alleged violations made against it by Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and alleged that the sought fine represents a misuse of power. See prior story on Staff petition to revoke Proton certificate
September 20, 2013
Adopting a mandated reserve margin in Texas, and the attendant mandatory capacity obligation, would be inconsistent with the vision of Governor Rick Perry's Competitiveness Council and specifically the Competitiveness Council's State Energy Plan.
September 19, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have petitioned the Commission to revoke the retail electric provider certificate of Proton Energy, Inc.
September 18, 2013
Google has agreed to purchase the entire output of the 240 MW Happy Hereford wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas
September 18, 2013
ERCOT said in a market notice yesterday that it has posted an updated tool to backcast online and offline reserve prices as well as Peaker Net Margin (PNM) under the real-time scarcity pricing concept known as "Interim Solution B+", a form of an operating reserves demand curve.
September 17, 2013
TXU Energy has launched a new referral program which does not limit the amount paid to the referring customer.
September 17, 2013
AEP Ohio Files to Significantly Increase Smart Meter Installations, But Not Full Deployment
September 17, 2013
Reliant said that it has launched a new app for customers.
September 17, 2013
Showing once again its utter indifference to realities of the retail electric market, FERC has assigned unhedgeable, out-of-market costs to load serving entities, such as retail suppliers, deeming that retail suppliers "benefit" from such costs.
September 16, 2013
The northeast RTOs are facing "disastrous" consequences if they do not reform their capacity markets, Entergy Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said during a Barclays conference Friday, further affirming that capacity market designs are not successful markets which assure…
September 16, 2013
One of NRG Energy's retail energy subsidiaries has acquired the book of a Texas retail electric provider.
