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Snapshot Report: 2019 PUC Complaint Data
Updated October, 2019
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Electric Deregulation in Texas: A Market Chronicle
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Snapshot Report: Electricity Prices in Texas
Updated May, 2019
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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.
Blog: Summer Energy Consumption, Renewable Use on the Rise in Texas
Texans set a new peak electricity demand record for the month of July by consuming 73,962 megawatts of power between 4 and 5 p.m. on July 13.
BLOG: Electric Deregulation Bill Charges to Phase Out Soon
Cumulatively, the charges have totaled more than $6.6 billion. Utility customers — both home users or businesses — have had them included with their transmission and distribution rates.
BLOG: Citing Ratepayer Risk, Texas Regulators Reject Wind Proposal
SWEPCO had not shown the out-of-state wind facilities would result in lower costs for Texas customers, according to regulators.
Blog: Texas Regulators Extend COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program
The COVID-19 Electricity Relief Program applies only to residential customers in areas with retail electric deregulation.
Blog: Change at the Top for Houston’s CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint serves as the primary electric transmission and distribution utility and natural gas utility for Houston, its surrounding areas and for a large swath of the Texas Gulf Coast.
Blog: Texas Law Ushered in City, State Cooperation in Utility Regulation
The 100-year-old Cox Act marked the beginning of city, state cooperation in utility regulation.
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