This week, I ran across a fantastic article from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the Texas heat this summer (particularly in Central Texas). The article talks about why electricity bills remain high overall despite low natural gas prices resulting in cheap electricity. Now, the reason for which the article was written a pretty Read More
Well, lots has been going on recently with Texas Electricity Ratings. For starters, we’ve made a couple changes on the site, and I’d like to take this time to run down a few of the changes we’ve made, as well as the different things I’m seeing in the electricity market from my spot behind the Read More
I ran across another article talking about some more changes the PUC has implemented that should benefit customers in deregulated energy markets. A few days ago I linked to and discusses an article that spoke about how the PUC approved some changes that would make it easier to shop and switch electricity providers without incurring Read More
Most of what we post here on the TER blog centered on specific news in the Texas Electricity market, be it provider news or marketplace news. We’re going to take a bit of a different angle today and took a look at some of the different plans that have hit the market from various REPs Read More
In a topic we’ve visited a couple times already on the Texas Electricity Ratings blog the subject of Oncor and their Smart Meters is again hitting the news wires this past week. This time, the message is that the PUC has approved Oncor’s right to charge their customers even more money for the first round Read More
In what is fantastic news for all Texans living in deregulated electricity markets, the PUC has made some sweeping moves to reduce the hassle of customers attempting to switch electricity providers. This is fantastic news, and I can’t stress this enough. In the past, customers attempting to switch to new electricity companies had to hurdle Read More
I ran across a fantastic article this week in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram. It’s one of the most interesting article’s I’ve read in awhile, in part because it touches on an item of market behavior (of the Texas Electricity market) that I’m curious about, and have been expecting to change for some time. Curiously Read More