Texas Electricity Ratings Blog
Potential TXU Bankruptcy: What it Means for Texas Electricity Customers
The Texas electricity market has been abuzz the past few weeks after a series of articles have been released speculating about the possibilities of...
Texas Electricity Ratings: Rankings Update: 10/16/2012
Summer has passed and we've had several events that have influenced some of the ways we rank providers at Texas Electricity Ratings, including rate...
Electricity Complaints Continue to Decline
Recharge Texas, a group that I've often disagreed with in the past, released a new report discussing how PUC complaints have declined year over year...
PUC Denies AEP to Sell Electricity in Texas as “AEP Retail Energy.”
In what I consider great news, and despite an earlier ruling by a Texas judge, last week the PUC voted 2-1 to forbid AEP from using the name "AEP...
Texas Electricity Customer Satisfaction Tops in JD Power Survey
As I wrote about yesterday, JD Power & Associates released their 2012 survey of Customer Satisfaction for the Texas electricity market. I've already...
Champion Energy Wins 3rd Straight JD Power & Associates Award
Late last week it was announced that Champion Energy won the 2012 JD Power & Associates survey for customer satisfaction. This marks the third...
Texas Electricity News and Notes 8/07/12
There's been a lot of damning pieces about the current state of the Texas electricity market lately, including more criticism by Loren Steffy. I...
Are Voluntary Mitigation Plans a License To Steal?
There's been lots of controversy over the PUC's acceptance and adoption of NRG's Voluntary Mitigation Plans (VMP). And it is all justified. The...
Texas Electricity Manipulation Questions Possibly Reveal Larger Concerns
After writing a post asking some questions about whether or not it was possible if the Texas electricity market was being manipulated on 06/26/12, I...
Texas Independent Market Monitor Response To Market Irregularities June 26th, 2012
Since I released my article questioning strange behavior in the ERCOT electricity market on June 29th I've been receiving a lot of attention. I had...