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February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC has moved consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs, consistent with a previously reported Staff memo (story here)
February 13, 2025
During today's Texas PUC open meeting, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said that ERCOT this year will be working on ideas to develop a residential demand response program that would feature financial support from ERCOT
February 12, 2025
A Texas bill (SB 6) filed today, authored by Sen. Phil King and Sen. Charles Schwertner, addresses several policies concerning large electricity loads, including minimum transmission charges and the availability of generation co-located with load to serve ERCOT during grid emergencies
February 10, 2025
In a proposal for adoption on new rules requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps), Texas PUC Staff would decline to require TDUs to maintain an ESI ID outage database which would have allowed the REP of record to see if such ESI ID was included in an outage, and, if so, the TDU's…
February 6, 2025
Texas PUC Staff have recommended that consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) be moved to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs
February 3, 2025
ERCOT said in a market notice that February 10, 2025 is the "target" posting week for the 2024 final Report on Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR).
February 3, 2025
HB 2305 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would allow ERCOT to request information from LSEs concerning customer response to conservation appeals, and would require REPs to provide such information
January 30, 2025
As ERCOT stakeholders further consider an NPRR which would expand payments to generators, linked to serving specific load, who are directed by ERCOT to reduce output under a High Dispatch Limit (HDL) override, Reliant proposed an annual cost threshold that would trigger an obligation for ERCOT to…
January 28, 2025
ERCOT is canceling the Request for Proposal for Must-Run Alternatives to the use of certain of CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's mobile generation (Life Cycle Power Mobile Generation Solution) as an alternative to an RMR agreement for CPS Energy's Braunig Units 1 & 2
January 27, 2025
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) Board Selection Committee announced the selection of two new members, Alejandro "Alex" Hernandez and Sigmund "Sig" Cornelius, to serve on the Board of Directors.
January 22, 2025
No Commissioner on the Texas PUC voted to consider rehearing of the PUC's recent decision denying a petition from TEAM and ARM that had sought to allow REPs to make a one-time adjustment to certain existing fixed rate contracts to reflect the costs of ERCOT Contingency Reserve Service (ECRS), as…
January 13, 2025
The Texas Energy Association for Marketers (TEAM) and Alliance for Retail Markets (ARM) have filed for rehearing of the Texas PUC's recent decision denying…
January 9, 2025
Oncor issued a market notice stating that…
January 6, 2025
Staff of the Texas PUC have now recommended that the Texas PUC approve the Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate of…
December 23, 2024
ERCOT has issued another RFP seeking Must-Run Alternative (MRA) Resources in lieu of executing a Reliability Must Run (RMR) agreement with CPS Energy Braunig Units 1 and/or 2
December 23, 2024
The Texas PUC will hold a workshop concerning emergency operations plans (EOP) which must be filed by certain entities subject to PUCT jurisdiction, including retail electric providers
December 20, 2024
A new entity applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
December 19, 2024
"CenterPoint Energy (CNP)" said today in a news release that
December 19, 2024
The Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA) has submitted to ERCOT a…
December 19, 2024
The Texas PUC, in a 2-0 vote, denied a petition from retail electric providers that sought to allow REPs to make a one-time adjustment to certain existing fixed rate contracts to reflect…
December 18, 2024
A Texas PUC Commissioner would deny a petition from retail electric providers that sought…
December 16, 2024
ERCOT said in a market notice that the posting of the 2024 final Report on Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) is being delayed from December 20, 2024, to…
December 16, 2024
A QSE would disgorge $28.2 million, and pay a penalty of $353,500, under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations related to…
December 16, 2024
In comments to the Texas PUC, NRG Energy has sought…
December 13, 2024
In a "final recommendation", Staff of the Texas PUC formally filed comments in Project 55000 recommending that…
