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March 31, 2011
ERCOT has suspended several State Estimator Load Report postings on the Market Information System (MIS) as of March 30, 2011, at 09:00 due to specific claims of confidentiality raised by members of Texas Industrial Energy Consumers (TIEC).
March 31, 2011
ERCOT has filed Nodal Protocol Revision Request 342 to provide ERCOT with authority to implement corrective measures and advise Market Participants to discontinue practices that are inconsistent with "efficient operation of the market," after identifying such outcomes in the Day-Ahead Market (DAM)…
March 30, 2011
ERCOT has posted the final list of generation units that experienced a forced outage during last month's severe weather event, Feb. 1- 4, at this link .
March 25, 2011
The PUCT yesterday granted ERCOT the authority to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, limiting such emergency authority to April through May 2011 (2/28) .
March 23, 2011
PUCT Staff have recommended that the Commission allow ERCOT to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, and that the Commission limit such emergency authority to April and May 2011 (2/28) .
March 14, 2011
"I think there at least arguably have been some violation of our rules," PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said during Friday's open meeting in discussing an issue identified by ERCOT regarding de-energized resource nodes.
March 7, 2011
Stream Energy confirmed that it will begin accepting residential electric enrollments at Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco by March 21. The expansion to Maryland was first reported in Matters ( 1/27 and 3/3 ). Stream has not yet posted pricing for the Maryland offers, but its Maryland terms of…
March 4, 2011
The PUCT has directed Staff to restart work on Project 37897, which was originally opened as a proceeding relating to resource and reserve adequacy and shortage pricing (see 1/20/10) .
March 2, 2011
A consultant's "preferred" method of transferring Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City divisions from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT is not viable, but two other alternatives which contemplate a complete transfer of the divisions into ERCOT would still benefit customers, Sharyland said in…
February 28, 2011
ERCOT has filed an emergency petition with the PUCT to allow ERCOT to procure additional Emergency Interruptible Load Service (EILS) under a new contract period, and without the otherwise required 90 days notice, due to the exhaustion of allowable deployments of EILS resources in the current period…
February 25, 2011
ERCOT market observers are expecting another mass transition of customers to new retail providers, and this transition is likely to be a POLR drop rather than a transition outside of the POLR process, as was the case with Abacus Resources Energy earlier this month.
February 25, 2011
PUCT Adopts Rule Clarifying ERCOT Oversight
February 25, 2011
PUCT Commissioners discussed pending changes to rules applicable to prepaid electric service under Subst. R. 25.498 yesterday, though Commissioners did not vote on a final order (38675).
February 21, 2011
It's "too early to tell" if the weather-related price spikes in the ERCOT market will change current retail pricing strategies, TXU Energy CEO Jim Burke said during an earnings call Friday.
February 18, 2011
TXU Energy's residential customer count stood at 1.771 million as of December 31, 2010, representing a net loss of 29,000 residential customers versus September 30, 2010, parent Energy Future Holdings reported in a 10-K filed this morning.
February 17, 2011
Exelon's ExTex Retail Services Receives Option 1 Texas REP Certificate The PUCT granted ExTex Retail Services Company, LLC an Option 1 REP certificate. ExTex Retail Services, a unit of Exelon, was previously certificated an Option 2 REP. ExTex Retail Services' application for an Option 1 certificate…
February 16, 2011
PUCT Chairman Barry Smitherman, during a Texas Senate hearing on the rolling outages earlier this month, said that ERCOT's current market design sends the correct signals to plants to be online when needed most, so plants can take advantage of any potential scarcity pricing which results during…
February 15, 2011
As is the case every legislative session, the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power (formerly the Cities Aggregation Power Project and the South Texas Aggregation Project), this time in concert with the Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor, has put out yet another report on the ERCOT market…
February 11, 2011
ERCOT issued the following clarifications on the previously reported approach to exclude the impact of last week's weather event from forward components of credit calculations.
February 11, 2011
PUCT Chairman Barry Smitherman believes that state lawmakers should use the Sunset review process to engage in a holistic review of the PUCT, ERCOT, and Railroad Commission, and should start "with a blank sheet of paper."
February 11, 2011
Spark Energy and Our Energy have split the customer book of Abacus Resources Energy LLC due to Abacus' default on financial obligations to ERCOT.
February 10, 2011
PUCT Staff reported during today's open meeting that due to recent events in the ERCOT market, an unidentified REP has not met its ERCOT obligations and could potentially transfer customers to POLR.
February 10, 2011
PUCO Approves Columbia Auction Results The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the results of the Columbia Gas Standard Service Offer auction, which, as first reported in Matters yesterday, resulted in a Retail Price Adjustment of $1.88/Mcf. Additional details in our 2/9 story.
February 9, 2011
ERCOT Reverts uth Percentile to Prior Level ERCOT is reverting the "uth" percentile used to determine exposure for Point-to-Point (PTP) Obligation Bids in the Day Ahead Market (DAM) to the 90th percentile starting with the DAM run on February 9, 2011, for Operating Day February 10, 2011. As…
February 7, 2011
Nordic Energy Services Enters Partnership with Blue Planet Energy Nordic Energy Services, LLC, has entered into a partnership with broker Blue Planet Energy under which Nordic will serve as Blue Planet's primary supplier of electricity. Blue Planet Energy runs an affinity program which donates 15%…
