It was with the promise of better prices and choices that state lawmakers in 1999 adopted the Texas electric deregulation law.
Newly minted electric companies would compete for customers. In theory, market forces would keep a lid on bills. How has Texas fared since then? TCAP examines this question in its signature report, Deregulated Electricity in Texas: A Market Annual, which is now updated and newly available in print format from Amazon. The 2017 version includes new content, context and analysis.
The report — an update of one originally released by TCAP in 2009 — incorporates findings from TCAP’s recent snapshot reports on electric pricing and complaints, as well as a new chapter on market developments during 2017.
Deregulated Electricity in Texas is presented as “A Market Annual” because it describes key electric market-related events in Texas, but organized chronologically in a year-by-year fashion. The report includes a preliminary section describing the period before to passage of SB 7 as well as 19 separate annual sections.
The 133-page paperback is available at Amazon, for $6.33 plus shipping. Here’s the link. Or you can download a pdf version for free here.