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There’s been a lot of news in the past week on the Tres Amigas power station which is currently proposed to be built in New Mexico. This article here in the Clovis News Journal talks about the details of the power station and what it potentially means to America, as well as to Green Electricity. Read More
I’m guessing this article isn’t going to garner a lot of positive responses from people, and that is completely understandable. There was an article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram recently discussing how Oncor might raise rates again. The reason isn’t entire clear, but the language chosen to describe it is pretty interesting. The article Read More
Texas Electricity Ratings has blogged quite a bit about the new Smart Meters being rolled out in the Dallas and Houston area. We’ve spoken about their ability to save money for customers, how they can measure real time electricity intake, how they could potentially be vulnerable to hacking, and even how they might be able Read More
Here’s a great article in the Dallas Morning News that discusses a number of topics about the deregulated electricity market after they convened a panel of experts, including some REP executives, some people from the PUC, and some consumer advocates. It’s a pretty interesting and informative piece that covers a lot of different topics in Read More
I’ve re-run the numbers and published the latest rankings at Texas Electricity Ratings and we have a new number one. Congratulations to Green Mountain Energy! Taking into account the entire Texas deregulated electricity marketplace, here’s a quick look at the new Top 5: 1.) Green Mountain Energy 2.) Champion Energy 3.) Bounce Energy 4.) TXU Read More
There’s been a lot of different articles and publicity talking about how the Texas Deregulated Electricity Market was ranked #1 recently in a survey of all the deregulated markets in the United States. How, this is a cool honor, but it’s also fair to keep it in the context that there’s only a couple handfuls Read More
We’ve covered a lot of articles about Smarts Grids, Smart Meters, and how they potentially return money to consumers. Well, here’s yet another article on the subject from the Dallas Morning News. In the article, it talks about how Oncor got some federal funding for their smart grid initiative, which has to be great news Read More
Here is an interesting article that will inevitably raise a few eyebrows in regards to potential fraud by Entergy, a regulated electricity provider that operates in parts of East Texas. Anyway, this is an interesting article to me because Entergy operates in regulated areas, meaning there isn’t electric choice for their customers. So when a Read More
I ran across a great article from the Houston Business Journal the other day, and I want to talk about a few quick points mentioned in the article that I found interesting. In short, Texans are unhappier with their electric companies than they were just a few years ago. The article is based on the 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