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March 2, 2012
ERCOT has awarded the Request for Proposal for a study to examine resource adequacy incentive factors, and factors that influence investment decisions for generation, to the Brattle Group, Inc.
March 1, 2012
Payless Power Launches Online Payment System
March 1, 2012
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has released a preliminary summer resource adequacy assessment, in which ERCOT said that it will not likely need to issue rotating outages, unless there are a higher-than-normal number of forced generation outages or record-breaking weather conditions…
February 24, 2012
The PUCT yesterday granted an appeal brought by two financial marketers concerning ERCOT's decision to resettle Operating Days December 1, 2010 through February 1, 2011, reversing the ERCOT Board decision to resettle the LMPs and settlement price points (Docket 39433).
February 24, 2012
Website TexasElectricityRatings.com has updated its ranking of ERCOT retail electric providers, and Champion Energy Services has been ranked first.
February 24, 2012
PUCT Chair Donna Nelson is, "definitely in favor of increasing the System Wide Offer Cap" and "tweaking" the Power Balance Penalty Curve, Nelson said during a resource adequacy workshop held by the Commission yesterday.
February 21, 2012
PUCT Staff have filed a draft proposal for adoption for rules concerning energy storage, including a change from the proposal for publication concerning storage's obligation to share in the cost of ancillary services (Project 39917).
February 21, 2012
TXU Energy saw improvement in its net residential churn during the three months ended December 31, 2011, but net residential churn was still 33,000 customers.
February 17, 2012
PUCT Staff have filed a draft Proposal for Publication to amend P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.361 in order to give ERCOT the authority to conduct pilot projects to evaluate new and emerging technologies, such as energy storage projects, to determine the benefits that these technologies may bring to the ERCOT…
February 13, 2012
Calpine has recommended to the PUCT that "the obligation to serve" be "placed on the table for discussion" as the Commission contemplates resource adequacy.
February 13, 2012
It is becoming increasingly clear that the biggest threat to retail customer choice is not regulators, legislators, incumbent utilities, or consumer advocates, but rather the owners of formerly incumbent generating assets, who now seek to foreclose the retail market after successfully stopping the…
February 10, 2012
Calpine said this morning that it is evaluating adding at least 550 MW of new capacity in ERCOT.
February 10, 2012
AEG Affiliated Energy Group has closed three mergers and acquisition deals specifically in the retail energy space in the past nine months, and expects more deals to close in the next two quarters.
February 3, 2012
Constellation Energy Commodities Group would pay $15,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve Staff's allegations that Constellation violated PURA § 39.151 (d) and (j) and P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), concerning failure to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocol §…
February 3, 2012
Constellation Alliance II, LP (QSE) would pay $20,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve Staff's allegations that Constellation violated PURA §39.151 (d) and (j) and P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), concerning failure to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocol § 8.1…
February 3, 2012
EnerNOC, Inc. would pay $45,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve Staff's allegations that EnerNOC violated PURA 39.151(d) and P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), concerning failure to adhere to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Protocol §§ 8.1.3.1(6)(a) and 8.1.3.1 (6)(f)…
January 25, 2012
Liberty Power Reports Commercial Customer Count
January 25, 2012
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power has released an updated version of its report of electric deregulation in Texas.
January 25, 2012
ERCOT has submitted Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 438, which would institute new minimum capitalization requirements applicable to market participants.
January 24, 2012
The PUCT executive director has issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) against Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. seeking an administrative penalty of $50,000 as Oversight and Enforcement Staff alleged that ECS failed to meet its Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) obligation on February 2…
January 23, 2012
Oncor Electric Delivery petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas for a good cause exception order to allow it to procure another 50 MW of curtailable load for the summer of 2012 (Docket 40123).
January 13, 2012
The PUCT intends to act on Commissioner Kenneth Anderson's "Category Three" issues relating to resource adequacy by the end of the summer, Commissioners agreed at yesterday's open meeting.
January 11, 2012
ERCOT is considering a Distributed Load Aggregation program, which would allow smaller customers to provide demand response during emergencies, it said in a resource adequacy status report to the PUCT.
January 10, 2012
ChooseEnergy.com has launched the Texas Residential Electricity Price Index Tool, which Choose Energy said will allow customers to easily observe the varying trends in electricity contract terms based upon a range from one month all the way up to 24 months.
January 10, 2012
Cirro Energy has acquired the assets of Texas retail electric provider Kinetic Energy.
