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....
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....
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...
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...
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. ________________________________________________...
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...