February 20, 2025
PUC Directs Staff To Pursue Revocation Of REP's Certificate, Rejecting Settlement
For reasons set forth in a previously reported memo from Commissioner Courtney Hjaltman (see story here) , the Texas PUC rejected a settlement between OnPoint Energy Texas, LLC and PUC Staff, under which OnPoint would have relinquished its REP certificate, but under which OnPoint would not have been…
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February 19, 2025
Commissioner Would Strictly Enforce 45-Days Notice Rule For REP Cessation Of Operations, May Hinder Future REP Book Fire Sales
The Texas PUC should direct its Enforcement Staff to investigate whether the principals of OnPoint Energy Texas, LLC serve as the principals of any other retail electric provider, given alleged disqualifying violations, Commissioners Courtney Hjaltman said in a memo in advance of the Feb. 20 open…
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February 19, 2025
Simplified Power Houston LLC has purchased the assets of Patch Power LLC for an undisclosed amount.
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February 19, 2025
Base Power is expanding to Houston its residential retail electricity program which includes a home energy storage battery, offering service at both the CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power service areas
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February 18, 2025
Aurora Energy LLC filed a registration as a Texas retail electric broker
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February 18, 2025
Energy Auction House LLC, with a mailing address of Austin, Texas and a Chicago, IL area-code phone number, registered as a Texas retail electric broker
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February 18, 2025
In a 10-K for the year 2024, Constellation reported that its customer-facing business serves approximately 1.5 million total customers, and approximately 1.2 million residential customers.
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February 17, 2025
Oncor has filed at the Texas PUC a proposed increase to its Distribution Cost Recovery Factor, Rider DCRF, charged to retail electric providers
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February 17, 2025
ENGIE Flexible Generation NA LLC has filed at the Texas PUC to withdraw its Perseus generation project from the PUC's Texas Energy Fund (TEF) In-ERCOT Loan Program
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February 14, 2025
SB 1312, authored by State Sen. Molly Cook (D), has been filed in Texas which would expand the criteria under which moratoriums for disconnection for non-payment are imposed
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February 14, 2025
Sun Top Energy LLC has filed at the Texas PUC to withdraw Sun Top Energy LLC's application for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
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February 14, 2025
National Grid X LLC, a newly formed entity, registered as a Texas retail electric broker
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February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC approved a final rule requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps)
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February 13, 2025
ERCOT has posted its December 2024 CDR, which is the first to include, in the primary forecast, new forecasted loads reported by Transmission Service Providers for expected loads that do not have a signed interconnection agreement (mostly large loads) and which would otherwise not have been included…
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February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC has moved consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs, consistent with a previously reported Staff memo (story here)
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February 13, 2025
During today's Texas PUC open meeting, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said that ERCOT this year will be working on ideas to develop a residential demand response program that would feature financial support from ERCOT
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February 12, 2025
Would Authorize PUC To Require That Co-located Generation Be Available To ERCOT In Emergencies Requires Study Of 4CP Cost Allocation
A Texas bill (SB 6) filed today, authored by Sen. Phil King and Sen. Charles Schwertner, addresses several policies concerning large electricity loads, including minimum transmission charges and the availability of generation co-located with load to serve ERCOT during grid emergencies
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February 11, 2025
Just-In Case Electric d/b/a Bluesun Services registered as a Texas retail electric broker
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February 10, 2025
NRG Energy Inc. announced a partnership with the FIFA World Cup 26 Houston Host Committee
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February 10, 2025
In a proposal for adoption on new rules requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps), Texas PUC Staff would decline to require TDUs to maintain an ESI ID outage database which would have allowed the REP of record to see if such ESI ID was included in an outage, and, if so, the TDU's…
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February 7, 2025
The Texas PUC granted Ammper Power, LLC an amendment to Ammper's option 1 retail electric provider certificate to allow Ammper to collect customer deposits
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February 6, 2025
Texas PUC Staff have recommended that consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) be moved to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs
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February 6, 2025
Tridder Energy Solutions LLC registered as a Texas retail electric broker
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February 5, 2025
The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) announced its launch as, "an educational outreach initiative ... to engage the public and elected officials about ... Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) technologies".
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February 5, 2025
Clear Current Technologies Inc registered as a Texas retail electric broker
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