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June 26, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has assigned project numbers for several new rulemakings, including a review of the REP certification rules.
June 26, 2013
A new law recently signed by Texas Gov. Perry requires that the Public Utility Commission of Texas shall publish a list of retail electric providers offering payment assistance programs customers who are military veterans with a significantly decreased ability to regulate body temperature because of…
June 26, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will examine the issue of the average pricing disclosure required of retail electric providers offering time-based rates.
June 26, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Glacial Energy of Texas, Inc. have reached a settlement to fully resolve a Staff Notice of Investigation into, and petition to revoke the REP certificate of, Glacial Energy of Texas, Inc., which allows Glacial Energy of Texas, Inc. to maintain its…
June 25, 2013
Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Announces New Members
June 25, 2013
Credit to Christopher Helman of Forbes for calling a capacity what it is in a recent story on the Texas debate -- "a little more regulation."
June 25, 2013
Citing weather and wholesale price impacts, NRG has lowered its Adjusted EBITDA guidance for its retail segment by $75 million in each of 2013 and 2014.
June 25, 2013
TXU Energy announced today that it is offering time-based electric rates to small and mid-sized business customers in Texas.
June 24, 2013
A recent filing by ISO New England at FERC should give Texas regulators pause in consideration of a capacity market because the filing details how, despite paying billions of dollars for capacity, resources receiving capacity payments don't respond when needed, leaving customers to ask what exactly…
June 24, 2013
Retail electric providers should not waste their time trying to exploit Texas customers, because Texas regulators are watching, are going to find out, will revoke the company's license, and will fine the company, Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said during last week's…
June 24, 2013
ENCOA has begun offering residential electricity supply in two new Texas service areas.
June 21, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday dismissed a petition from retail electric providers seeking a declaratory ruling regarding the use of the CenterPoint Energy brand by utility CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and broker CenterPoint Energy Services Inc., particularly with regards to…
June 21, 2013
The ERCOT Independent Market Monitor has released the 2012 State of the Market Report, and the report spends considerable time defending capacity markets as "efficient."
June 21, 2013
TXU Energy is now offering large commercial and industrial customers a voluntary critical peak rebate program.
June 20, 2013
Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, requested in a memo in advance of today's open meeting that an order regarding a penalty settlement with a company which acted as a retail electric provider without a certificate should include language stating that the Commission will…
June 20, 2013
Reliant has added several new airline miles electricity plans with new partners.
June 19, 2013
ERCOT has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas a Value of Lost Load (VOLL) study prepared by London Economics International LLC.
June 18, 2013
Interstate Gas Supply Listing Electric Offers in New Territories
June 18, 2013
Listening to capacity market advocates in Texas, you'd expect that the centralized capacity markets in the eastern RTOs are "settled" market designs, which can easily be taken "off the shelf" and quickly applied to ERCOT, with little controversy or administrative bureaucracy.
June 13, 2013
Power2Switch Expands Online Shopping Platform to New State
June 13, 2013
Because investors "lost big" on the last competitive generation build-out, Texas ratepayers must now subsidize generation in order for it to get built -- that's the essence of what John Ragan, President of NRG Energy's Gulf Coast Region, said in a June 11 op-ed in favor of a Texas capacity market…
June 11, 2013
Six Flags has retained Larry Weil, energy sponsorship and branding veteran, to find a potential retail energy sponsor and partner, which may include supplying Six Flags properties with commodity as well.
June 7, 2013
ERCOT has scheduled an information session regarding its request for data from retail electric providers regarding their dynamic pricing and demand response-related products.
June 7, 2013
Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas are considering opening a generic rulemaking on policies applicable to the use of a transmission and distribution utility brand by a competitive affiliate.
June 7, 2013
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson reminded retail electric providers that misuse, or incorrect use, of the switch-hold process warrants a "death penalty," such as license revocation, from the Commission, in his view.
