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March 27, 2014
NRG recently published a letter on its website (click here) from CEO David Crane which outlines Crane's visions for NRG and the industry, and which we again see as irreconcilably in conflict with NRG's preferred policy of a capacity market in Texas.
March 26, 2014
Constellation Energy Commodities Group, Inc. would pay $27,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations concerning the failure to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Zonal Operating Guide § 1.8.2, relating to system…
March 17, 2014
Source Power & Gas is now offering residential electric service at Sharyland Utilities LP in Texas -- the former Cap Rock areas now opening up to choice.
March 10, 2014
New York Sets Date for ESCO EDI Collaborative
March 7, 2014
The Texas Public Policy Foundation has released a new presentation: "Letting the Facts Speak: Texas' Reliable Electricity Market."
March 6, 2014
ERCOT notified the Public Utility Commission of Texas, "of its violation of Section 1.3.1(k) of the ERCOT Protocols," due to the transmission of a file to two unintended recipients which could have been interpreted to match the number of ESI IDs identifiable to another LSE.
March 6, 2014
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas released its final Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy (SARA) for this spring and a preliminary outlook for the coming summer.
March 4, 2014
ERCOT has proposed Nodal Protocol Revision Request 601 to revise, "the calculation of credit exposure for Counter-Parties that are registered as Qualified Scheduling Entities (QSEs) and Load Serving Entities (LSEs) and provide Provider of Last Resort (POLR) service as a result of Mass Transition of…
February 28, 2014
ERCOT's new Capacity, Demand, and Reserves report shows significant improvement in the forecast reserve margin.
February 24, 2014
"Our energy market seems to be healthy," Texas Public Utility Commissioner Brandy Marty said during Friday's open meeting, as the Commission agreed to focus on the appropriate reliability standard, rather than immediate changes to market design.
February 20, 2014
There's a lot of absurdities when trying to wade through the inconsistent and illogical arguments in favor of a Texas centralized capacity market, but the latest line being pitched by capacity market supporters may be our favorite.
February 19, 2014
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced that it will release its next 10-year outlook on Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) on February 28.
February 19, 2014
NTE Energy announced plans to develop, own and operate a 270 MW gas-fired peaking generating plant in ERCOT.
February 18, 2014
As noted in our related story today, a Texas customer has taken up the fight to introduce electric choice to El Paso Electric, which is the latest example of a disturbing trend in Texas of so-called competitive market advocates not proactively seeking to extend choice to the still significant areas…
February 7, 2014
Breeze, LLC would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Breeze's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocols § 16.11.5(1)(b), related to monitoring of a counter-party's creditworthiness and credit exposure by ERCOT.
February 6, 2014
Given the recent results of the Brattle economically optimal reserve margin study, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson has recommended that the Commission study the appropriate reliability standard (1-in-10 year loss of load event or alternative) prior to instituting a comparison of…
February 3, 2014
"[T]he current energy-only market design will sustain a reserve margin of approximately 11.5%, which is 1.3 percentage points above the risk-neutral, economically optimum level of approximately 10.2%," The Brattle Group said in a report on the economically optimal reserve margin prepared for the…
January 23, 2014
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reject, "a traditional 'capacity market' system," for the following reasons:
January 23, 2014
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson has proposed retaining Brattle to conduct an "apples to apples" comparison of costs for various resource adequacy policy options before the Commission.
January 23, 2014
ERCOT yesterday posted a preliminary load forecast using a preliminarily revised methodology, and if the new forecast peak loads are inputted into the May 2013 Capacity, Demand and Reserves report, ERCOT is forecast to have a reserve margin in excess of 16% until 2019.
January 22, 2014
A Texas retail electric provider has newly notified the Public Utility Commission of Texas of its intent to offer prepaid service.
January 20, 2014
Direct Energy has completed the previously announced sale of three gas-fired power generation facilities in Texas to Blackstone for $685 million.
January 20, 2014
Peak demand in ERCOT increased only 1% in 2013, ERCOT confirmed in its recently released Demand and Energy Report.
January 20, 2014
Reliant has begun offering new customers a pair of free Justin Boots.
January 15, 2014
A white paper by ICF International regarding recent grid emergency conditions prompted by the polar vortex notes that forced outages in PJM as a percentage of generation were four times higher than forced outages in ERCOT.
