Commission Issues Order Adopting New §25.508 Reliability Standard Rule
Excerpts from Order Adopting New §25.508 Reliability Standard Rule “The Public Utility Commission of Texas (commission) adopts new §25.508, relating to Reliability…
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September 12, 2024
September 11, 2024
TPUC Staff’s Supplemental Recommendation on Sufficiency of Digital Power’s REP Application
Staff recommends that DP USA’ s supplemented application be found sufficient for further review and that the above-proposed procedural schedule be adopted. Staff…
September 4, 2024
Texas ALJ’s Proposed Order Denies REP’s Coalition Declaration Request That Sought Allowance For One-Time Adjustment For Some Existing Fixed Rate Contracts To Designate ECRS As Ancillary Service
The Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) issued a Proposed Declaratory Order With Memo that finds, “[t]he REP Coalition failed to prove that the need for consumer…
Monthly PUCT Complaint Scorecard From PUCT Data
For the month of July 2024, the PUCT complaint staff received a total of 2,470 complaints, more than two and a half times the number received in June. Electric…
August 29, 2024
Proposed Generation from Affiliates of Texas Retail Providers Among Projects Advancing Under In-ERCOT Loan Program
The Texas PUC has advanced to a due diligence review over 4,100 MW of proposed new generation to be built in ERCOT by affiliates of Texas retail electric providers, as…
August 28, 2024
TNMP Files Resiliency Plan with PUCT
Texas-New Mexico Power Company files a proposed system resiliency plan with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT). In its filing TNMP seeks authority to defer…
August 23, 2024
PUCT Staff Proposes Draft Rule for Registration of Crypto Miners
The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) Staff filed a Memo and Proposal for Publication for the Commissioner’s consideration at the August 29, 2024, Open Meeting.…
PUCT Staff Proposes Rule for REP Residential Demand Response
Public Utilities Commission Staff of Texas (PUCT) issues a Proposal for Publication of New 25.186. Goal for Reducing Average Total Residential Load In ERCOT Region -a…
August 22, 2024
PUCT Adopts Staff’s Allocation of Costs for Online PUC Meeting Broadcasts
In an Order Setting The Cost Recovery Fees For Live Internet Broadcasting the Texas Commission finds that Staff Memo On Cost Distribution and recommendation on how to…
ERCOT VOLL Study Shows VOLL As $667,000/MWh for Small C&Is; ERCOT & Staff Make Recommendations On Market-wide VOLL
Excerpts from Staff Recommendation Memo on VOLL: {***} During the August 15, 2024, open meeting, Commission Staff (Staff) provided a verbal update about the ongoing…
