Texas PUC Staff Recommend Amounts For Assessment On Subject REPs To Fund Internet Broadcast of PUC Meetings

Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed recommended fees to be allocated to retail electric providers and other companies to cover the cost of broadcasting PUCT meetings online.

PURA provides that a retail electric provider that serves more than 250,000 customers shall be subject to such an assessment.

Staff recommends the following fees be assigned to subject REPs:

Ambit Texas               $5,725
Direct Energy             $3,554
Green Mountain Energy     $4,966
Just Energy               $3,476
Reliant Energy           $19,980
Stream Energy             $4,118
TXU Energy               $21,781

There is no change in the number of REPs, or specific REPs, that would be subject to the assessment versus last year,

Also of note, Staff recommends the following assessments to generators:

Luminant                 $27,162
Calpine                  $15,278
NRG Energy               $21,159

The assessment applies to a power generation company that owns more than 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity in Texas. Due to power plant sales, NextEra Energy Resources, which had previously been subject to the assessment, would no longer be subject to the assessment