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Exelon's ExTex Retail Services Receives Option 1 Texas REP Certificate
The PUCT granted ExTex Retail Services Company, LLC an Option 1 REP certificate. ExTex Retail Services, a unit of Exelon, was previously certificated an Option 2 REP. ExTex Retail Services' application for an Option 1 certificate was first reported in Matters (1/13).

ComEd Reports 2,800 Residential Customers on POR in First Month
Commonwealth Edison reported that some 3,200 customers were served under its Purchase of Receivables program through roughly the first month, about 2,800 of which were new residential customers. ComEd said that it has also informally received notice from retail suppliers of their intentions to enroll "thousands" of additional customers onto POR in the coming months. "The currently effective discount rate structure is clearly working to include both PORCB usage and entrance of [retail suppliers] into the heretofore untapped residential market," ComEd said in comments to the Illinois Commerce Commission asking that the status quo for the POR program be maintained until the Commission further clarifies a recent amendatory order on POR which has throw the POR discount rate calculation into chaos (see 2/16).

TXU Energy Increases Cash-Back Rewards in Non-Affiliated Areas
TXU Energy said yesterday that it is offering 6% cash back loyalty rewards in 2011 for new residential customers enrolling through March 31 at CenterPoint, AEP Texas North, AEP Texas Central, and Texas New-Mexico Power. Previously TXU had offered 3% cash back to these customers.

ERCOT Posts Updated List of Forced Outages
ERCOT has posted an updated list of generators that experienced a forced outage during Feb. 1- 4. The list is available by clicking here. The list only reflects those generators who have consented to the release of their information.