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March 22, 2013
ERCOT has filed its backcast analysis of market prices had the Interim Solution B+ approach to improve the scarcity pricing mechanism been in place in 2011-12.
March 18, 2013
Kona Energy has begun offering residential electricity service in Texas.
March 15, 2013
Texas needs to address concerns of retail electric providers which are leery of providing customers with technologies to enable demand response due to the fear that the investment may go unrecovered due to customer migration, Donna Nelson, Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said…
March 13, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas should consider, "developing simple, clear model disclosures that describe actual cost savings, measured fairly," regarding demand response and similar offerings from retail electric providers, the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission said in comments to the…
March 7, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. have filed a settlement for approval of a new Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP).
March 4, 2013
The amount of electricity available to serve demand in ERCOT will be tight again this summer, according to an analysis released by ERCOT
February 22, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Calpine Corporation have filed for approval of a settlement agreement establishing a Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP) for Calpine, which specifies offering practices that Calpine may use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT…
February 21, 2013
Investment, and by implication, innovation, cannot occur in competitive retail energy markets characterized by "transient customers," a competitive generator shockingly told the Public Utility Commission of Texas, in comments urging the PUCT to not rely on demand response for long-term resource…
February 20, 2013
Website TexasElectricityRatings.com has updated its ranking of ERCOT retail electric providers.
February 20, 2013
Texas retail electric providers will be challenged to preserve margin in a rising cost environment, and July and August could be an "issue" for certain retail electric providers, TXU Energy CEO Jim Burke said during an earnings call yesterday.
February 19, 2013
ERCOT has issued an initial determination concerning the Notification of Suspension of Operations for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Ferguson unit FERGUS_FERGUSG1.
February 14, 2013
ERCOT Files Backcast of Operating Reserve Demand Curve Proposal
February 13, 2013
Introducing a capacity market into ERCOT would subject customers to an unavoidable "tax," an industry panelist said yesterday at an Infocast conference.
February 13, 2013
Two reports from think tanks on opposite ends of the political spectrum have both reached the inescapable conclusion that a capacity market in ERCOT would raise customer rates, without addressing any specific causes of the current resource adequacy concerns.
February 13, 2013
An updated analysis of ERCOT resource adequacy from Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson shows that ERCOT is not projected to fall below the 13.75% reserve margin until after 2018.
February 12, 2013
ENCOA has begun offering residential electric service in Texas, at Oncor and CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric.
February 7, 2013
Pursuant to PUCT Rule, ERCOT is requesting data from Load-Serving Entities related to Dynamic Pricing and Demand Response capabilities of their customers.
January 29, 2013
Tenaska and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) announced Monday that they have entered into a development and purchase agreement for construction of a proposed 800-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fueled electric generating station in Brownsville, Texas.
January 28, 2013
ERCOT has received Notification of Suspension of Operations for the following Generation Resource:
January 25, 2013
Texas Public Utility Commissioners agreed yesterday that ERCOT should study the proposed Interim Solution B to improve scarcity pricing by utilizing reserve demand curves.
January 25, 2013
Mega Energy disclosed several details of the recent sale of its Texas retail customer book to TXU Energy in seeking an order from the Public Utility Commission of Texas rescinding a prior designation as a Provider of Last Resort.
January 23, 2013
ERCOT has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas two potential interim solutions to improve scarcity pricing by utilizing reserve demand curves.
January 18, 2013
FERC Issues Policy Statement on Allocation of Merchant Transmission Capacity
January 13, 2013
Apparently in the vein of never letting a crisis go to waste, a federally-sanctioned, non-representative, quasi-government agency has inserted itself into the ERCOT resource adequacy debate, requesting, since it has no authority to demand, that ERCOT provide it with certain information, but with the…
January 10, 2013
Texas State Representative Byron Cook, Chair of the House Committee on State Affairs, has proposed that the current structure of the Public Utility Commission of Texas be replaced with a single commissioner.
