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CenterPoint’s Claim to Make Customers “Whole” for Generation Costs Questioned

CenterPoint’s Claim to Make Customers “Whole” for Generation Costs Questioned

by R.A. Dyer | Apr 24, 2025 | Electricity, Legislature

CenterPoint Vice President Jason Ryan has outlined a plan under which its customers would be made whole for previous charges relating to the utility’s leases of mobile generation units that went unused during hurricane recovery efforts....
Federal Judge Blocks Electric Transmission Law in Texas as Anti-Competitive

Federal Judge Blocks Electric Transmission Law in Texas as Anti-Competitive

by R.A. Dyer | Nov 1, 2024 | Electricity, Legislature

The ruling bars regulators from enforcing Senate Bill 1938, a 2019 law that blocked power companies that don’t already own transmission within Texas from building lines inside the state that form part of multi-state electricity grids....
CenterPoint Revenues Decline with Hurricane Beryl Outages, Vegetation Management

CenterPoint Revenues Decline with Hurricane Beryl Outages, Vegetation Management

by R.A. Dyer | Oct 30, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT

Officials blamed in part reduced usage because of outages from Hurricane Beryl for the revenue decline. ________________________________________________ CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based electric and gas utility, reported $198 million in consolidated income for...
CenterPoint’s Claim to Make Customers “Whole” for Generation Costs Questioned

PUC Adopts Reliability Standard for ERCOT, Orders Increase to Value of Lost Load

by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT

Approved Aug, 29 by commissioners, the new standard is intended to give the agency better visibility going forward on the ERCOT system’s reliability needs and could open the door to future reforms. ________________________________________________ As per a legislative...
Seventeen Electric Generators Selected to Receive Billions of Dollars in State-Subsidized Loans

Seventeen Electric Generators Selected to Receive Billions of Dollars in State-Subsidized Loans

by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT

The projects were selected from among 72 applications for the PUC to consider under the state’s low-interest “In-ERCOT Loan Program,” which is part of the Texas Energy Fund established after Winter Storm Uri in 2023. ________________________________________________...
Federal Judge Blocks Electric Transmission Law in Texas as Anti-Competitive

PUC Considering Permian Basin Reliability Plan with Cost Estimates Exceeding $10 billion

by R.A. Dyer | Aug 14, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT

Interested parties now have submitted 19 sets of responses to staff questions about the proposed Reliability Plan for the Permian Basin, which could be adopted by the PUC in September. ________________________________________________ On July 25, 2004, ERCOT filed with...
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Why TCCFUI

TCCFUI is comprehensively focused on utility issues for Texas cities! With its volunteer board of city representatives, we work with other state and local organizations to fill unserved city needs.

Recent Blog Posts

  • CenterPoint’s Claim to Make Customers “Whole” for Generation Costs Questioned
  • ERCOT Forecasts Significant Demand Increases, But Less than Previous Predictions
  • News Round-Up: March 2025
  • News Round-Up: February 2025
  • More Workers Needed to Bolster Broadband, Water Sectors According to Report

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