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October 3, 2014
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. would pay $15,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violation of Section 39.151 (d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA); P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), related to oversight of wholesale market…
September 30, 2014
Starwood Energy Group Global, LLC, a private investment firm focused on energy infrastructure, announced today that an affiliate has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Exelon Corp. to acquire a natural gas combined cycle electric power generating facility in Odessa, Texas.
September 30, 2014
The Independent Market Monitor has released the 2013 state of the market report for the ERCOT market.
September 30, 2014
Exelon Generation announced that it is planning on adding nearly 2,000 MW of new generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.
September 29, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas intends to tackle issues related to subsynchronous oscillation (SSO) on parallel tracks, agreeing to further study technical issues, while intending to make progress on cost allocation (to the extent possible) while such studies are ongoing.
September 22, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed three potential options for next steps in the Commission's investigation of subsynchronous oscillation (SSO).
September 19, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas should deny a request for resettlement sought by Champion Energy Services due to ERCOT's reliance on inaccurate meter data from Texas-New Mexico Power, ERCOT and TNMP said in separate replies to a complaint.
September 18, 2014
GDF Suez Energy Marketing NA, Inc. would pay $28,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of PURA § 39.151 (d) and (j); P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), related to oversight of wholesale market participants; and Electric Reliability…
September 11, 2014
Several Texas retail electric providers challenged their designation as non-volunteer POLRs based on not serving certain customer classes in certain TDU areas.
September 8, 2014
ERCOT has petitioned a federal bankruptcy court to compel Glacial Energy to assume, or reject, various "executory contracts" with ERCOT, including the Standard Form Market Participant Agreement, in order to preserve ERCOT's standard remedies to protect the market against uplift should a market…
September 3, 2014
ERCOT expects to have sufficient electricity available to keep up with peak demands this fall and the upcoming winter, it said in two seasonal assessments.
August 26, 2014
Five Texas transmission and distribution utilities petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas to distribute proceeds from the letter of credit provided by Reach Energy LLC, stating that they are collectively owed more than $450,000.
August 22, 2014
Champion Energy Services, LLC has filed a complaint at the Public Utility Commission of Texas against Texas-New Mexico Power Company and ERCOT, relating to alleged inaccurate settlement meter data from TNMP, and ERCOT's ultimate reliance on the inaccurate data for wholesale settlement purposes.
August 19, 2014
Start-up Texas retail electric provider Pioneer Energy has begun offering service.
August 18, 2014
North American Power announced that its official launch date for serving retail electricity customers in Texas is November 5, 2014
August 11, 2014
Direct Energy has begun offering to Texas residential customers two electricity plans that offer customers discounted rates and other benefits in exchange for paying a "membership" fee to access the plans.
July 22, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have petitioned for a good cause exception to P.U.C. SUBST. R. 23.43, in order to assign the non-volunteer POLR (LSP) responsibility for 2015-16 at Sharyland Utilities, LP.
July 17, 2014
A settlement resolving a complaint by Odessa-Ector Power Partners L.P. against ERCOT concerning ERCOT's manual overrides of Odessa-Ector Power Partners, L.P.'s High Dispatch Limit (HDL) on November 15, 16, and 20, 2012 calls for resettlement of the disputed intervals.
July 14, 2014
ERCOT has invited retail electric providers to an August 4 workshop on Advanced Metering System (AMS) data focused on ERCOT's AMS data monitoring and processes.
July 8, 2014
Start-up Texas retail provider Enertrade Electric has begun offering retail electric service at Sharyland Utilities, LP and Sharyland-McAllen.
July 2, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas will conduct a workshop on Project No. 42631, Rulemaking Regarding Subsynchronous Oscillation in the ERCOT Region, on July 28.
June 30, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have scheduled a workshop for September 12 regarding its Review of the reliability standard in the ERCOT region (Project No. 42302)
June 25, 2014
The allegations from two "speculators" in a lawsuit against GDF SUEZ Energy North America, "are an attempt to have this Court reject the design of the ERCOT wholesale power market in Texas and impose an obligation on ERCOT participants under the CEA [Commodity Exchange Act] that has never before…
June 23, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has agreed on an approach to examine the reliability standard in the ERCOT market.
June 23, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas denied a petition to eliminate or otherwise modify the small-fish-swim-free exemption under Subst. R. §25.504(c).
