November 7, 2016
Cites PJM's Embrace of More Costly "Annual" Resources Which Had Forced Outages During Polar Vortex
John Schultz, President of Direct Energy Business, LLC, wrote in a letter to the PJM Board of Managers that PJM's decision to adopt an "aggregation" proposal to address concerns about demand response's ability to participate in the 2020-21 capacity auction (which will only procure capacity…
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October 17, 2016
Texas Retail Market Vets Lead Acquisition
Zen Home Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Chron Organization, Inc., announced today that the company has entered into a Letter of Intent for the acquisition of Enertrade Electric LLC, a Texas-based retail electric provider (REP) active in the ERCOT market, under the trade name Shyne Energy
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October 5, 2016
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC reported that all of its funds under the low-income smart device program (under which Texas REPs are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers) have been exhausted
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September 16, 2016
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric filed a further update concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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September 9, 2016
Texas PUC Directs More "Robust" RMR Process, To Allow Consideration Of Load Alternatives, Mitigation Plans
During yesterday's open meeting, Texas PUC Chair Donna Nelson and Commissioner Brandy Marty Marquez were generally cool to a major overhaul of the Emergency Response Service (ERS) program, but said that certain tweaks should be studied, including the use of ERS for resolving local congestion, and…
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September 2, 2016
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have outlined three potential options for the next steps in the Commission's consideration of potential changes to Emergency Response Service (ERS)
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August 17, 2016
The City of Austin d/b/a Austin Energy would pay $8,500 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violation of 16 Tex. Admin. Code (TAC) §§ 25.503(f) and 25.507(f)(2), concerning failures to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)…
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July 28, 2016
Oncor filed a further update concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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July 22, 2016
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric filed a further update concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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July 18, 2016
"Calpine encourages the Commission [Texas PUC] to consider eliminating the current ERS [Emergency Response Service] program," Calpine said in comments in a project reviewing ERS (45927)
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July 14, 2016
ERCOT has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to procure one or more resources as a Must-Run Alternative (MRA) to the existing Reliability-Must Run (RMR) Agreement with NRG Texas Power LLC's Greens Bayou Unit 5, which is required as ERCOT found that the plant, which had sought to suspend operations…
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June 27, 2016
The Retail Energy Supply Association has sought rehearing of a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio order approving compliance tariffs at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities which, for the first time, introduced a consolidated billing requirement for shopping customers to take service under Rider ELR…
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June 22, 2016
Gexa Energy, LP introduced three new demand response programs for commercial and industrial customers located in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, while affiliate NextEra Energy Services launched two similar programs tailored for customers in PJM
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June 13, 2016
"[T]he competitive electricity markets -- particularly the organized wholesale markets -- continue to underachieve," when it comes to addressing the changing electricity industry, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed…
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June 10, 2016
During yesterday's open meeting, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson stressed the need to address third party access to the Smart Meter Texas portal
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June 8, 2016
The Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have issued a request for comment concerning Emergency Response Service (ERS) in ERCOT.
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June 2, 2016
FERC approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) and Lincoln Paper and Tissue, LLC (Lincoln) under which Lincoln has agreed to a civil penalty of $5,000,000 and disgorgement of $379,016.03 to resolve an investigation into whether Lincoln engaged in fraudulent conduct in its…
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June 2, 2016
CPower recently announced that it has acquired Johnson Controls' Integrated Demand Resources (iDR) business.
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May 4, 2016
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson filed a memo outlining options for moving Emergency Response Service into the ERCOT day-ahead market
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May 4, 2016
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CEHE) reported that it expects it will have soon exhausted 75% of funds designated to reimburse retail electric providers for providing free programmable communicating thermostats and in-home displays (collectively, in-home devices) to low-income customers
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April 22, 2016
FERC rejected a complaint filed by the PJM Independent Market Monitor which sought to impose a must-offer requirement, as applicable to PJM’s day-ahead energy market, on demand response with a capacity supply obligation
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April 22, 2016
FERC dismissed a complaint from Viridity Energy, Inc. regarding the compensation provided to customers registering with one curtailment service provider (CSP) in PJM's capacity program, but who use a different CSP for energy and ancillary services (EL12-54).
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April 11, 2016
Intelligent Energy Solutions, LLC, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, has been merged into retail supplier MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC, which is also owned by Berkshire Hathaway
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March 30, 2016
Links EP, LLC would pay $40,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Links' alleged failure to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas Protocols § 8.1.3.3.1, related to Emergency Response Service Performance (ERS) and Testing
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March 24, 2016
Oncor and CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric filed interim updates concerning the program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers.
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