Aug 10, 2016 | Legislative Watch
AUSTIN — Although supported by utility monopolies, overhauling the state’s procedures for setting home electric rates would lead to higher prices for costumers, more paperwork for regulators and cause big headaches for retail electric providers. Those were some...
Jun 22, 2016 | Industry News
Change for the better could soon be coming to the state’s electric shopping website under reforms promoted by Public Utility Commission chairwoman Donna Nelson. The website, powertochoose.org, has been around since 2002, the very beginning of retail electric...
Jun 8, 2016 | Industry News
Residents in Houston and Dallas can choose among a growing number of competitive electricity deals with prices that meet or beat prices in deregulation-exempt areas of the state, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power. What remains...
Apr 20, 2016 | Legislative Watch
A controversial proposal by investors to buy Oncor, the state’s largest electric utility, is showing serious signs of unraveling. According to media reports the investors seeking to buy Oncor now balk at conditions on that deal set by the Texas Public Utility...
Apr 1, 2016 | Legislative Watch
It’s a great service — and one that Texas electricity shoppers need — but it also could stand some improvement. That’s why the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power is joining with others in pushing to maintain and reform powertochoose.org, the state’s electricity...
