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Texas PUC Approves Cease & Desist Authority

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved, without major substantive changes, a proposal for adoption to implement cease and desist authority. Click here prior story for details on proposal for adoption

Energy Shopping Comparison Site to Track Historic Price Trends in Multiple States

Online energy shopping portal SaveOnEnergy.com has become the latest to offer a historical comparison of Texas prices and related information on pricing trends. Similar reports for New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are listed as "coming soon." See http://www.saveonenergy.com/market-trend-report

AES Launches "Cost-Competitive" Battery-Based Grid Resource

AES Energy Storage launched AES Advancion, which it said is a "complete battery-based grid resource – delivering the services expected from peaking power plants." Advancion, "acts as both a generation and load resource, enabling more than twice the flexible range of a peaker plant on the same size interconnection. It is continuously available without burning fuel and was designed with the ability to tap into existing unused capacity from efficient natural gas combined cycle power plants, solar and wind facilities," AES said.