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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), in an update on the completion of the transition to retail competition at Lubbock Power & Light, (LP&L), reported that a total of 109,577 premises or energized Electric Service Identifiers (ESI IDs) in the LP&L service territory have been transitioned to REPs as part of this process.

As of February 15, 2024, approximately 66% of customers (71,844 ESI IDs) had selected a REP. While customers continued to have the opportunity to choose a REP after that date, ERCOT is unable to determine how many customers made REP selections after February 15.

LP&L divided the 37,733 ESI IDs associated with customers that had not selected a REP by February 15 among the three default REPs, who in turn submitted move-in transactions to ERCOT for their assigned ESI IDs.

If a customer chose a REP other than their assigned default REP after February 15 and before their transition date, the move-in transaction submitted by the customer’s chosen REP either superseded or resulted in a cancellation of the move-in transaction submitted by the default REP. As a result, while ERCOT can determine how many move-in transactions were processed for each of the three default REPs, ERCOT cannot determine whether any given move-in transaction with a default REP occurred because the ESI ID had been assigned to the default REP or because of an affirmative customer choice.

A move-in transaction for a default REP may have occurred as the result of several scenarios, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. The customer was assigned to the default REP and took no action.
2. The customer was assigned to a default REP and subsequently chose a different plan with that REP than the default month-to-month plan.
3. The customer was assigned to a default REP, declined that default REP, but subsequently chose to receive service from that same REP.
4. The customer was assigned to one default REP, then chose a different REP that also happened to be a default REP.
5. The customer was assigned to a default REP, declined that default REP, did not select another REP, and was consequently reassigned to a default REP.

The example scenarios may have occurred multiple times for a single ESI ID. For example, ERCOT is aware of an ESI ID in LP&L’s service territory that had five move-ins, seven cancellations, two switches, and three date changes in the process of arriving at a single REP of Record with a meter-read date for settlement purposes.

ERCOT’S Notification Regarding The Completion Of The Transition Of LP&L’s Customers To Retail Competition  (04/11/2024)

Project 55999  (Opened 01/09/2024)
Reports Of The Electric Reliability Council Of Texas