Sep 16, 2015 | Legislative Watch
The winds have been blowing hard lately — so hard in fact that records are getting broken. According to the organization that manages the state’s main power grid, wind farms generated 11,467 megawatts of electricity on Sept. 13th — or enough electricity to serve...
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...
Aug 7, 2015 | Industry News
How’s this for irritating? You shut down your air conditioning and appliances to save money, but then get dinged with an extra fee for conserving power. Welcome to the annoying world of minimum-use fees. These particularly pernicious charges have become increasingly...
Jul 16, 2015 | Industry News
Transmission and distribution utilities — the “wires” companies like Houston’s CenterPoint Energy and Oncor, in Dallas — operate as regulated monopolies. They serve millions of customers statewide. But despite being rate regulated, transmission and distribution...
Jul 14, 2015 | Legislative Watch
ERCOT wants to increase its revenues — and it’s seeking another rate hike to make it happen. In documents filed with Texas regulators, the operator of the state’s principal power grid seeks to hike the fee that finances its operations from the current 46.5 cents per...
