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July 11, 2025
In comments on a customary four-year review of the Texas PUC's retail electric market rules, Vistra Corporate Services Company (Vistra) alleged, "Vistra believes there are examples of a person prohibited from exercising control of an Option 1 REP under 16 TAC § 25.107(g)(1) still actively exercising…
July 8, 2025
Staff of the Texas PUC will host a workshop on July 21, 2025 to receive public input on topics related to implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 6
June 23, 2025
LS Power Equity Advisors, LLC ("LS Power") has withdrawn its gas-fired generation project from the In-ERCOT Texas Energy Fund Loan Program
June 13, 2025
Characterizes "Strong" Stakeholder Support To Allow Third-Party QSEs To Participate Directly
ERCOT will host a further in-person workshop on June 16, 2025 to review feedback and discuss additional design refinements and next steps for ERCOT's proposed Residential Demand Response Program, which would include an incentive paid by ERCOT (i.e. funded by the ERCOT market)
June 11, 2025
The Public Utility Commission of Texas published a preliminary notice of intention to review Chapter 25, Substantive Rules Applicable to Electric Service Providers, in accordance with Texas Government Code §2001.039, Agency Review of Existing Rules.
June 10, 2025
ERCOT will host an in-person workshop on June 26, 2025 to discuss the design of a Dispatchable Reliability Reserve Service (DRRS) in the ERCOT market.
June 3, 2025
On June 13, 2025, ERCOT will host a technical workshop to discuss additional measures that may be needed to address ride-through concerns associated with Data Center and Cryptomining Large Loads operating and interconnecting in the ERCOT Region.
June 2, 2025
ERCOT on May 30 issued a market notice concerning "widespread noncompliance" with the reporting and attestation obligations regarding the purchase of critical electric grid equipment (CEGE) and critical electric grid services (CEGS)
May 16, 2025
In the CDR, ERCOT stated, "One scenario in this CDR -- using 'Protocol Prescribed' capacity resources and the new ERCOT Adjusted Load Forecast—indicates that summer Planning Reserve Margins for 2026 through 2030 decrease significantly from year to year, and cross over to negative values in 2028. (In…
May 7, 2025
The Texas PUC granted Luxor Technology Corporation an Option 2 Texas retail electric provider certificate
April 25, 2025
NextVolt Energy, part of the Power 1 Energy Company (P1EC), has officially launched retail electric service in the ERCOT market in Texas
April 18, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC has filed to reduce Rider TEEEF (Temporary Emergency Electric Energy Facilities) as a result of CEHE conveying to ERCOT and CPS Energy fifteen 32 MW TEEEF units currently leased by CEHE, to help address a lack of local capacity and transmission import…
April 15, 2025
ERCOT has provided to retail electric providers, via a market notice, instructions for compliance with new reporting requirements for information regarding REPs' responsive device programs
April 11, 2025
On April 10, 2025, ERCOT entered into an agreement with Lancium LLC to license certain of Lancium's patents at no cost.
April 3, 2025
A Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings ALJ dismissed the remaining complaint pending before the Texas PUC concerning MidAmerican Energy Services LLC's imposition of a supplemental ancillary service charge after Winter Storm Uri
March 31, 2025
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of installed generation capacity in ERCOT.
March 19, 2025
ERCOT has scheduled for April 1, 2025, immediately following the Retail Market Subcommittee (RMS) meeting, a workshop to discuss and develop details for the data submission process for REPs to provide information on demand response events under the new responsive device programs offered by REPs
March 14, 2025
Following a call with REPs earlier this week, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in a market notice provided more details about its new Smart Thermostat Program, under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed under the TDU's energy efficiency budget for providing a smart thermostat to…
March 12, 2025
NRG Energy Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire six power generation facilities from Texas-based Rockland Capital, LLC, adding 738 megawatts (MW) of natural gas-fired capacity to its portfolio.
March 4, 2025
While EnergyChoiceMatters.com typically does not cover routine or administrative developments in retail supplier licensing proceedings, because of intense reader interest in the Texas REP application of Enron Energy Texas LLC, ECM provides the following update for those counting the days since the…
February 28, 2025
Heritage Power, LLC (HP), a Texas retail electric provider, announced the deployment of a virtual power plant (VPP) through its customer base.
February 20, 2025
PUC Directs Staff To Pursue Revocation Of REP's Certificate, Rejecting Settlement
For reasons set forth in a previously reported memo from Commissioner Courtney Hjaltman (see story here) , the Texas PUC rejected a settlement between OnPoint Energy Texas, LLC and PUC Staff, under which OnPoint would have relinquished its REP certificate, but under which OnPoint would not have been…
February 19, 2025
The Texas PUC should direct its Enforcement Staff to investigate whether the principals of OnPoint Energy Texas, LLC serve as the principals of any other retail electric provider, given alleged disqualifying violations, Commissioners Courtney Hjaltman said in a memo in advance of the Feb. 20 open…
February 17, 2025
ENGIE Flexible Generation NA LLC has filed at the Texas PUC to withdraw its Perseus generation project from the PUC's Texas Energy Fund (TEF) In-ERCOT Loan Program
February 13, 2025
ERCOT has posted its December 2024 CDR, which is the first to include, in the primary forecast, new forecasted loads reported by Transmission Service Providers for expected loads that do not have a signed interconnection agreement (mostly large loads) and which would otherwise not have been included…
