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May 9, 2013
Texas, with its energy-only market serving the vast majority of the state, continues to be named the most attractive state for businesses by numerous metrics, while capacity market states are largely absent from the same rankings.
May 8, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Acacia Energy, Inc. have filed for approval of a settlement agreement under which Acacia Energy would pay $75,000 to resolve an investigation prompted by customer complaints involving deferred payment plans and switch-holds placed on accounts at…
May 8, 2013
TriEagle Energy has launched a voluntary peak-time rebate program in Texas which could pay customers up to $1/kWh in response to curtailments during called events.
May 7, 2013
5 Names New Hire, Expands With New Office
May 7, 2013
A proposed order from a Texas ALJ would impose a $25,000 administrative penalty on CPS Energy, an authorized qualified scheduling entity (QSE), relating to failure to meet non-spinning reserve service (NSRS) deployment requirements.
May 7, 2013
NRG Energy reported this morning on its earnings call that it is seeing flat unit margins in Texas.
May 6, 2013
ERCOT has filed a supplement to backcast pricing impacts from implementing an operating reserves demand curve under the B+ Solution, now using 2,300 MW as the minimum contingency level, which indicates energy market price increases of up to $70/MWh.
May 3, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Luminant Energy Company LLC, a qualified scheduling entity, have entered into a Settlement Agreement under which Luminant would pay an administrative penalty of $35,000 to resolve an investigation to alleged violations concerning failure to adhere…
May 2, 2013
ERCOT's May 2013 Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) report shows an increase in the forecast reserve margin in 2014 to above-target levels as the delivery period approaches, which is the market behavior that is expected in an energy-only market.
May 2, 2013
TXU Energy saw an improvement in net residential customer churn during the three months ended March 31, 2013, versus the three months ended December 31, 2012, when excluding the impact of inorganic growth in the three months ended December 31, 2012.
May 1, 2013
Details have emerged regarding the business strategy for Eco Power, the newly acquired direct selling division of Glacial Energy.
April 30, 2013
Sharyland Utilities, L.P., Sharyland Distribution & Transmission Services, and Southwestern Public Service Company have filed for approval at the Public Utility Commission of Texas of a transaction under which Sharyland will acquire certain SPS transmission assets to facilitate the introduction of…
April 30, 2013
New England and New York could follow California in essentially re-regulating new build power generation through the use of regulator-directed procurements, Julien Dumoulin-Smith said in a note to UBS Investment Research clients.
April 30, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas is planning to launch on May 6 a revamped Power to Choose website, with the revised site notably allowing customers to rate retail electric providers.
April 29, 2013
Clearview Electric, Inc. has filed a notice of intent with the Public Utility Commission of Texas of its intent to provide prepaid service using a customer prepayment device or system.
April 29, 2013
True Electric L.L.C. would pay $16,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve allegations that True Electric was not in full compliance with 18 provisions of the Substantive Rules (41424).
April 29, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a strawman for potential changes to PUC Subst. R. 25.43, relating to Provider of Last Resort (POLR), for the limited purpose of allowing a Large Service Provider (LSP), also known as a non-volunteer POLR, to request that the commission…
April 26, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday adjudicated two outstanding issues regarding the proposed competitive generation service tariff at Entergy Texas, but withheld final adjudication of remaining issues until the next open meeting.
April 26, 2013
Reliant has released pricing for its newly launched Free Weekends plan in Texas, which will provide the customer with a Nest Learning Thermostat at no additional charge.
April 25, 2013
Texas retail electric provider 4Change Energy has named the four charitable organizations that will benefit from its affinity program that allows customers to select various causes to support.
April 25, 2013
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) announced that it will be presenting Public Service Leadership Awards and Industry Leadership Awards at its upcoming 16th Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference the morning of April 30, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
April 25, 2013
Acclaim Energy Advisors announced that it has reached a six-year strategic agreement with the Texas General Land Office to provide dynamic load optimization services to government agencies and facilities.
April 25, 2013
On Friday, Connecticut's budget bill advanced out of committee, which Taff Tschamler, Senior Vice President of Business Development for North American Power and Gas, LLC, said is, "as close as a state has come to getting a utility out of the supply function as I've seen."
April 24, 2013
An initial decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would deny a petition to revoke the electric supplier license of Glacial Energy of Pennsylvania, Inc.
April 24, 2013
A start-up retail electric provider named OriGen Energy LLC has applied for an Option 1 Texas REP certificate.
