Aug 27, 2015 | Legislative Watch
If Oncor raises rates, more than 3 million Texas customers feel it. If Oncor can’t serve those homes and businesses, there’s nowhere else for them to turn. That’s why North Texas electric ratepayers have a giant stake on Oncor’s potential sale. Even though the...
Jul 21, 2015 | Legislative Watch
As much as $50 million. That’s how much Oncor Electric may have cost the Texas electricity market because of an erroneous price spike in May. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the organization that operates the state’s main power grid, is investigating. The...
Nov 25, 2014 | Legislative Watch
Has Oncor systematically shortchanged its electric distribution system? That’s the question from Public Utility Commission Kenneth Anderson, who wrote in a recent memo that repeated outages in North Texas have him left wondering whether the company is doing enough to...
Nov 17, 2014 | Legislative Watch
Oncor, the state’s largest electric monopoly, wants to invest billions of dollars in energy storage technology — a proposal that could lead to the placement of refrigerator-sized batteries behind shopping malls and in residential neighborhoods. But the ambitious plan...
Oct 17, 2014 | Legislative Watch
Energy Future Holdings Corp., the giant Texas electric company that filed this year for bankruptcy, wants to pay its executives big bonuses. That’s the word from federal bankruptcy court in Delaware, where the company referred to itself as “one of the best operated...