Texas Electricity Ratings Blog
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...
Texas Electricity News & Notes – 7/10/2012
There's been a couple bigger articles written recently that I plan on tackling in the next few days, but in the meantime I wanted to throw out a...
Some News on Switch-Holds
There's been some news this week on Switch-Holds that I figure I would share with everyone. Switch-Holds have created a little bit of controversy in...
Is the ERCOT Market Being Manipulated?
Last week was a busy and interesting period in the Texas electricity market. First, the PUC filed a motion (for a meeting that happened on 6/28) to...
Link Dump for Texas Electricity and Summer Heat Wave
There were lots of articles late last week and this weekend discussing ERCOT and the preparations for this weeks high temperatures, which expect to...
PUC Officially Files To Raise Market Cap
The staff of the PUC has officially filed a proposal to raise the market cap to $4500, up from the current cap of $3,000. This has looked like a...
TXU Making A Push in Online Outreach
A couple of interesting notes that have crossed my desk in the past week in regards to TXU and how they relate to their Texas electricity customers....