June 17, 2014
CenterPoint TDU Not Processing Disconnects for Non-Pay Due to System Issues
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric is currently experiencing system issues which are preventing CNP from processing market transactions
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June 16, 2014
Texas Staff Propose Process, Questions for Examining Reliability Standard
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a memo in advance of the Commission's June 20 open meeting concerning next steps in the Commission's review of the reliability standard.
June 16, 2014
Texas Staff Recommend Denying Petition to Eliminate Small Fish Swim Free Rule
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended that the Commission deny a petition to eliminate or otherwise modify the small-fish-swim-free exemption under Subst. R. §25.504(c).
June 11, 2014
Sharyland Reports Suspension of Disconnects for Non-Pay in New Choice Areas Due to ESI ID Confusion
Sharyland Utilities LP issued a market notice to retail electric providers yesterday that it temporarily stopped performing disconnections for non-pay in its areas newly open to choice after it became clear that a "large majority" of the DNP requests related to customer confusion or errors regarding…
June 6, 2014
Texas Generator to Pay $10,000 Fine for Not Offering Power at Offer Cap When Required To Do So
Calpine Corporation would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of ERCOT Protocols § 6.4.3.1, related to energy offer curves for RUC-committed resources.
June 5, 2014
Texas QSE to Pay $18,000 Under Settlement with PUCT Staff
Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. would pay $18,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve an investigation to Morgan Stanley Capital Group for alleged violation of non-spinning reserve service (NSRS) energy deployment criteria on March 31, 2012.
June 5, 2014
Reliant Offering Flat Bill Plan, Including Recurring TDU Charges
Reliant is offering residential customers in Texas the opportunity to contract for a flat monthly cost for electricity for 12 months.
May 30, 2014
Texas Chair: Should Generators Bear Some of the Risk of Grid Instability Caused by Intermittent Resource Integration?
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson filed a memo in advance of today's open meeting concerning issues related to prospective transmission system upgrades, ancillary services, and the transmission planning process related to renewable resources, as well as problems that have arisen…
May 30, 2014
Texas Generator, PUCT Staff Agree on Amendments to Voluntary Mitigation Plan
NRG Energy and Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed for Commission approval of an amended voluntary mitigation plan that specifies offering practices that NRG can use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT real-time and day-ahead energy and ancillary service…
May 27, 2014
No Support for Eliminating Texas Small-Fish-Swim-Free Rule
A petition by Raiden Commodities to eliminate the current Small-Fish-Swim-Free rule in the ERCOT market was opposed by a diverse group of stakeholders, and of the publicly available comments at publication time, Raiden's petition had no support from any commenting party.
May 19, 2014
Luminant Proposes NPRR to Mitigate Price Reversal Under the ORDC in ERCOT
Luminant Energy, LLC has submitted to ERCOT Nodal Protocol Revision Request 626, Operating Reserves Demand Curve (ORDC) Price Reversal Mitigation Enhancements
May 16, 2014
Exclusive: Frontier Utilities Acquires Customers from Texas REP
Frontier Utilities has acquired the prepaid customers of Texas retail provider Electric Now.
May 15, 2014
Proposed Texas Order Would Grant Appeal, Require ERCOT Resettlement
A proposed Texas order would grant an appeal regarding ERCOT's manual overrides of Odessa-Ector Power Partners, L.P.'s High Dispatch Limit (HDL) on November 15, 16, and 20, 2012.
May 9, 2014
Texas Retail Provider Defaults at ERCOT, Customers Being Transitioned to Designated REP and POLRs
Update : 5/9/14, 5:20 pm ET RetailEnergyX.com: Entrust Energy Acquires Reach Energy Customers
May 2, 2014
Texas REP Enters Supply/Credit Agreement with DTE Energy Trading
Texas retail provider Summer Energy, has entered into various supply and credit agreements with DTE Energy Trading, Inc.
May 2, 2014
ERCOT (Again) Forecasts Adequate Reserve Margin for Next Three Years
ERCOT's May Capacity, Demand and Reserves report has again shown an improvement in forecast reserve margins as certain delivery years draw near, and now forecasts adequate reserve margins for the next three years -- the very outcome expected under a well-functioning energy-only market.
May 1, 2014
Retail Customer Churn at TXU Parent Steady
Retail customer churn at Energy Future Holdings was steady during the three months ended December 31, 2013, versus the three months ended September 30, 2013, EFH said in a 10-K filed yesterday.
April 30, 2014
New Texas Retail Electric Provider Launches Service
Enertrade Electric has begun offering retail electric service in Texas.
April 28, 2014
QSE to Pay $20,000 Under Settlement with Texas Staff
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. would pay $20,000 under settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve ECS's alleged violation of P.U.C. SUBST. R. §25.503(f)(2) and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocol § 8.1.3.3.1(1)(b) by failing to meet the…
April 25, 2014
Throw It Out: Power Traders' Lawsuit Against GDF Suez Amounts to Forum Shopping, Collateral Attack on Texas Law
Two power traders have filed a lawsuit against GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. in federal court alleging market manipulation, in what amounts to a collateral attack on Texas' energy-only market and small-fish-swim-free rule.
April 22, 2014
Power Trader Seeks Elimination of Small Fish Swim Free Rule in ERCOT
Raiden Commodities petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas for a rulemaking to eliminate the current Subst. R. §25.504(c), which currently provides that entities with less than 5% of ERCOT installed capacity do not have ERCOT-wide market power.
April 11, 2014
Texas Staff Outlines Approach to Research Reliability Standard
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed a memo outlining their proposal to examine issues related to the reliability standard in the ERCOT region.
April 9, 2014
ERCOT Approves Houston Import Transmission Project
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors voted to endorse the approximately $590 million Houston Import transmission project and deemed the new construction portion of the project critical for reliability.
April 2, 2014
Hollow Words, or Change of Heart? Long-Time Capacity-Market Supporter Direct Energy Embraces "Freedom" for Texas Electric Market, Says "Choice" Fundamental
"We love freedom in Texas ... and as I sit here today our focus is on freedom," Andrew Sunderman, Chief Financial Officer of Direct Energy, said in a keynote at the Gulf Coast Power Association spring conference.
March 28, 2014
ERCOT Proposes Reduction in Cure Period
ERCOT has proposed Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 612 to reduce the cure period for failure to make payment or transfer funds, provide collateral or designate/maintain an association with a Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE).