September 18, 2023
Microsoft Selects Retail Supplier For 24x7 Renewable Energy Matching Program For Texas Data Centers
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September 15, 2023
Texas PUC Dismisses One Of The Last Remaining Post-Uri Complaints Against Texas REP, Which Had Potential Precedential Impacts
The Texas PUC dismissed, without prejudice, a…
September 15, 2023
ERCOT Receives Notification That Seasonally Mothballed Unit Returning To Year-Round Service
On September 15, 2023, ERCOT received a Notification of Change of Generation Resource Designation (NCGRD) for the following Generation Resource…
September 14, 2023
Retail Supplier Affiliate Brings Five New Batteries Online in Texas, Tripling its Operational Utility-Scale Storage Capacity
A Texas REP affiliate said that it has more than tripled its operational utility-scale storage capacity this summer
September 14, 2023
Texas PUC Commissioner Suggests Cap Needed On Make-Whole Payments To Generators If Market-Wide Emergency Price Cap Under New Emergency Pricing Program Activated
During today's Texas PUC open meeting…
September 14, 2023
Texas PUC Directs Staff To File New Petition For Declaratory Order Concerning Treatment Of ERCOT Securitization Charges By REPs In Customer Rates (Is Pass-Through Permissible?)
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has instructed PUC Staff to file…
September 14, 2023
Texas Start-up Aims To Sell Power To Luxury EVs
A start-up filed a registration with the Texas PUC as an Exempt Wholesale Generator (EWG) / Power Generation Company (PGC)
September 14, 2023
Texas Retail Provider Reports Amount Of Power It Purchased From Distributed Solar Customers In August Under New Pilot, Total Amount Paid To Customers
A retail energy supplier reported results from what it termed a 30-day pilot solar buyback program for Texas customers during August
September 13, 2023
Texas PUC Staff Proposes Draft Rule To Allow TDUs To Implement New Rider For Resiliency Plans Under New Statute
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed, under a recommended draft proposal for publication, proposed new rules at…
September 13, 2023
Texas Retail Provider Receives Authority To Use New Trade Name
The Texas PUC granted…
September 13, 2023
Former REP CEO Joins Retail Provider As VP, Business Development
A retail energy supplier has named…
September 11, 2023
Another Texas Retail Provider Registers For ADER Pilot
Another REP has filed with the Texas PUC a registration form for an Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) under the ADER pilot, according to a caption of a confidential filing made with the PUC today
September 11, 2023
Update: Retail Supplier Affiliate Signs Contract For Carbon Sequestered Credits, Will Market "Carbon Sequestered Gas"
The affiliate of a retail energy supplier announced the signing of a contract for the sale and purchase of…
September 11, 2023
Start-up Broker Led By Market Vet Expanding To Texas
A start-up registered as a Texas electric broker
September 8, 2023
New Texas Retail Provider Registers For ADER Pilot
A new REP has filed with the Texas PUC a registration form for an Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) under the ADER pilot, according to a caption of a confidential filing made with the PUC today
September 8, 2023
Texas PUC Staff Propose Pricing Level Under Emergency Pricing Program
Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for publication to…
September 7, 2023
French Energy Storage Developer Expanding To ERCOT
NWJ TEX LLC registered as a Texas power generation company, stating
September 5, 2023
Option 2 Texas Retail Provider Seeks To Serve All Customers, Change To Option 1
An Option 2 REP is seeking to become an Option 1 REP
September 1, 2023
ERCOT Announces Strategic Leadership Reorganization
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) today announced, "a strategic leadership reorganization."
September 1, 2023
Start-up, With CEO Zach Dell, Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Base Power, Inc., a start-up, registered as a Texas electric broker
August 29, 2023
Update: Broker Formally Announces Acquisition, Number Of Clients Disclosed
Priority Power Management today formally announced that it has acquired the business of Atlas Retail Energy ("Atlas"), which had been exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com on Aug. 3 .
August 28, 2023
Texas ALJ Approves TDU Interim Rate Change On 3 Days' Notice To REPs
A Texas ALJ today approved, effective on and after September 1, 2023, new interim rates applicable to retail electric providers proposed by CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CenterPoint Houston) under an update to CenterPoint Houston's Rider Temporary Emergency Electric Energy Facilities (TEEEF)
August 28, 2023
Texas PUC Staff Says ERCOT Securitization Charges, Which May Vary By Month, Are Not "Pass Through" Charges, And Are Instead Recurring Charges (REP's Fixed Rate Cannot Be Changed), Seeks PUC Confirmation
Also Seeks Guidance That Securitization Charge Opt-Outs Are Not Transferable
Staff of the Texas PUC requested guidance from the Commission regarding two issues that relate to the implementation of the ERCOT Debt Obligation Order that was filed on October 13, 2021 in Docket No. 52322 (the uplift financing program for certain Uri costs)
August 25, 2023
ERCOT Proposes Increase In System Administration Fee
ERCOT formally filed at the Texas PUC a 2024/2025 ERCOT biennial budget which contemplates a change in the ERCOT system administration fee rate, which ERCOT proposes to increase for the first time since 2016, from $0.555 per megawatt hour (MWh) to $0.710 per MWh for ERCOT fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
August 24, 2023
ERCOT To Conduct Further Study Of Reliability Impact From Generating Unit Suspending Operations, May Invoke RMR/Alternatives Authority
ERCOT has released a reliability analysis determination for Barney Davis LLC (B_Davis_B_DAVIG1)