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: 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: 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.