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87th Texas Legislature: New Bills, New Committee Assignments
Battery storage, transmission siting and potentially expensive regulatory changes — these utility-related issues and others are included in bills now pending before the Texas Legislature.
BLOG: ERCOT Reports Higher Projected Reserve Margins
All else equal, a higher reserve margin should mean less likelihood of certain kinds of reliability problems, as well as lower wholesale prices.
Blog: ERCOT Reports Sufficient Power in Texas for Winter, Spring; Wind and Solar Advance
Texas remains on track to add more than 5,000 MW of new wind capacity in 2020 — the most ever added annually.
BLOG: Vistra’s New Acquisitions Further Consolidate Texas Retail Electric Market
NRG and Vistra could end up controlling about 75 percent of the competitive Texas market, according to published reports.
BLOG: Texas Regulators Set Energy Efficiency Utility Charges for 2021
One charge on your home electric bill that may have escaped your notice is for something called the “EECRF.” This discrete charge pays your local utility for costs it incurs for creating energy efficiency programs.
Blog: PUC Questions Contract with Texas Reliability Monitor
The Texas Reliability Entity — also known as the “Texas RE” — is charged with monitoring and enforcing ERCOT compliance with federal electric reliability standards from the North American Electric Regulatory Corporation. The Texas RE also serves as the PUC’s Reliability Monitor for the ERCOT region.
BLOG: East Texas Utility Scrambles to Restore Power After Hurricane
Although it made landfall outside the state, Hurricane Laura knocked out power for hundreds of thousand customers within Texas and wreaked havoc on the local utility.
BLOG: ERCOT Predicts Sufficient Electricity for Fall, Winter
The supply of electricity in Texas this fall and winter should keep up with demand, according to recent reports.
BLOG: Texas Regulators Consider Emerging Electric Vehicle Issues
By potentially shifting a portion of the state’s very large energy needs from transportation onto the electric system, electric vehicles present challenges to Texas’s utility framework.
Blog: Distribution System Adjustments to Increase Electric Rates
Several major utilities filed applications at the PUC to adjust charges associated with their electric distribution systems.
Reports Archive
An Energy Future Holdings Bankruptcy
March 2014
A Retreat From Electric Competition
