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For the Week of 12/26/14 — 1/2/15
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Texas Headlines
84th Legislative Regular Session
Dec 26, 2014: Top 10 stories of 2014: Fracking fight shifts from Denton to the statehouse
Dec 26, 2014: Texas Lawmaker Fights City’s Fracking Ban
Generation Adequacy
Dec 30, 2014: Oncor Officials Look To 2015 For Decisions About Route To Increase Bulk Electric Power
Dec 29, 2014: Oncor’s Backup Plan For Texas Power Gives Jolt To Energy Storage Industry
Dec 28, 2014: Texas Pushing Back As Feds Move To Reduce Coal-Fired Plants
Dec 29, 2014: Texas Retail Providers: “Subsidy” for Generation-Related Capital Costs Would Set “Dangerous Precedent” For Market
Dec 28, 2014: The Grid Reliability Myth
Dec 25, 2014: E.P.A. Wrestles With Role of Nuclear Plants in Carbon Emission Rules
Dec 26, 2014: ERCOT: Texas Becoming Less Reliant On Coal To Generate Electricity
Dec 26, 2014: Power Price Declines From Houston to Minneapolis as Demand Falls
Dec 23, 2014: CenterPoint Unveils New Transmission Line Alternatives
Dec 23, 2014: Pattern Energy Acquires Logan’s Gap Wind Project In Texas
Dec 26, 2014: Texas Wind Power Sets A Record In 2014, But Federal Tax Credit Ends Soon
Dec 23, 2014: Utilities Eyeing Direct Investment In Shale Gas
Dec 23, 2014: How U.S. Power Generators Are Preparing for 2015
Headlines
Dec 26, 2014: El Paso Electric Company Reaches New 52-Week High at $41.08
Dec 29, 2014: Texas Is Freaking Out About The Oil Crash
Dec 30, 2014: Heads Up, Entergy Customers: Your Bill Is Likely To Increase Because Louisiana Needs More Power
Dec 28, 2014: Entergy Louisiana River Bend 1 Reactor Shut
Dec 28, 2014: Texas Needs To Incentivize Solar Power
Dec 29, 2014: This Year’s Key Developments in Distributed Energy and Utility Disruption
Dec 26, 2014: Generation Cornerstone: Ninemile 6 Joins Entergy’s Power Portfolio
Dec 26, 2014: Turning City Government Green Is Paying Off
Dec 26, 2014: Texas Air Toxicologist Does Battle With EPA Science On Air Emissions
Dec 26, 2014: Solar-Powered Vehicles Could Patrol In Galveston
Dec 23, 2014: State: Texas Oil and Gas Drilling Permits Fall 50 Percent in November
Dec 23, 2014: Electric Utilities Benefit From Shale Gas Boom
Texas Retail Electric Providers
Dec 30, 2014: Texas REP Releases New Bill Format
Dec 29, 2014: Texas Power Reserve Applies To Become Texas REP And PGC
Dec 29, 2014: Retail Provider Has Property Seized By Vendor; Court Orders Return
Texas Generators
Dec 29, 2014: Texas Power Reserve Applies To Become Texas REP And PGC
Power Grid Security
Dec 29, 2014: Understanding Semantics of Grid Security Strategies
Dec 29, 2014: Hackers Tried to Paralyze Nuclear Plants
Dec 26, 2014: South Korea Heightens Security After Cyberattack on Nuclear Plants
Dec 27, 2014: South Korea’s Two Nuclear Reactors Stopped After Toxic Gas Leak
Dec 23, 2014: If Cyberwar Erupts, America’s Electric Grid Is A Prime Target
Dec 23, 2014: South Korea Steps Up Cyber Security At Nuclear Plants
Renewable Power
Dec 29, 2014: The Perry Legacy: Texas Now Hands-Down Leader in Wind Power
Dec 28, 2014: The Perry Legacy: Cleaner Air, but Who Gets Credit?
Dec 25, 2014: Company’s Solar Ambitions Are As Big As The Sky
Dec 23, 2014: Wonder Material Could Harvest Energy From Thin Air
Dec 29, 2014: Tariffs-Smariffs, We Can Already Make the World’s Lowest Cost Solar Modules — Here In The US
Dec 26, 2014: Renewables Dominate New US Electrical Generating Capacity
Dec 24, 2014: U.S. Geothermal acquires Earth Power Resources
Dec 26, 2014: Why Do Some US States Have Higher Rooftop Solar Installation Than Others?
Dec 26, 2014: Topaz Turns On 9 Million Solar Panels at World’s Largest Photovoltaic Power Plant
Dec 26, 2014: “In America”, with James Earl Jones, set to Produce New Segment on Solar Power Systems
Dec 26, 2014: A Dozen Reasons 2014 Was Awesome for Clean Energy & Beyond Coal Victories
Dec 26, 2014: Apple, IKEA, Walmart: 12 Leaders In On-Site Renewables
Dec 23, 2014: Living the EV/PV Dream: How I Chose to Pair My Solar System With an Electric Car
Dec 23, 2014: In 2014, U.S. Climate Movement Grew in Grassroots Might But Lost Ground in Congress
Dec 23, 2014: US Solar Capacity Rising Thanks To Declining Prices
Dec 23, 2014: Ford Dealers to Charge EVs with On-site Wind Power
Dec 23, 2014: Solar and Wind Provide 70 Percent of New US Generating Capacity in November 2014
Outside Texas
Dec 29, 2014: New CPUC President, Utilidata, Empower Energies, Nexeon
Dec 29 2014: Group Wants 2 State Regulators Recused From Deciding Future Of PNM’s Coal-Fired Power Plant
Dec 29, 2014: Ukraine Separatist Leader Warns Against Using U.S. Nuclear Fuel
Dec 29, 2014: Vermont Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down as Industry Evolves
Dec 29, 2014: BYD All Electric Bus Rolled off Production Line in Dalian
Dec 23, 2014: Warning of Rate Shock, Harm to Retail Market, Pa. PUC Slams Proposal to Increase PJM Price Cap
Dec 29 2014: ConEd Files for Expansion of Residential Demand Response Programs
Dec 22, 2014: Utica Shale Electric Use Is Having Big Impacts On Firstenergy, American Electric Power
Other News
Dec 23, 2014: Is The Oil Crash About To Snuff Out The ‘Texas Miracle’?
Dec 23, 2014: Turmoil Is Coming To Houston Area’s Economy
Dec 23, 2014: El Paso Water Utilities Is Planning Leader
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For the Week of 12/19/14 — 12/26/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
85th Legislative Regular Session
Dec 19, 2014: Proposed Texas Legislation Could Make It Hard And Expensive To Ban Fracking, Limit Drilling In Texas
Dec 19, 2014: Get Ready Cities, Austin Lawmakers Are Challenging Your Authority To Regulate Fracking.
Generation Adequacy
Dec 22, 2014: From Court Battles to International Expansion, a Look at the State of Demand Response
Dec 22, 2014: Coal for Power and Emerging Environmental Constraints: Biochar to the Rescue?
Dec 18, 2014: Power Across Texas Rises as Wind Production Declines
Dec 19, 2014: With US Nuclear in Decline, Scientists and Analysts Urge Support for Next-Generation Technologies
Headlines
Dec 22, 2014: Fort Worth Based XTO Energy Fined $2.3 Million By Federal Agencies For W.Va. Violations
Dec 22, 2014: Solar Electric Power Association recognizes El Paso Electric
Dec 22, 2014: NRG Sets Lofty Sustainability Goals At Groundbreaking Of Its Green HQ
Dec 22, 2014: Investment in Microgrid Enabling Technologies is Expected to Exceed $155 Billion Through 2023, According to Navigant Research
Dec 22, 2014: American Superconductor: Too Cheap To Ignore With Emerging Energy Grid Security Catalysts
Dec 19, 2014: Fitch Rates Lower Colorado River Authority, TX’s Rev Bonds ‘A’; Outlook Stable
Dec 19, 2014: JPMorgan: Texas At Risk Of Recession Next Year
Dec 22, 2014: Texas Reliability Entity Members Elect New Chair and Vice Chair
Dec 19, 2014: Power Sector Employment Declines, Except For Renewable Electricity Generators
Dec 19, 2014: Energy Tech Firm Creating 160 S.A. Jobs
Dec 19, 2014: Environmentalists Split With the Obama Administration Over Key Power Plant Rules
Texas Retail Electric Providers
Dec 23, 2014: Texas ALJ Allows Complaint Implicating REP Obligations to Communicate TDU Charges to Continue, Refers to Mediation
Dec 23, 2014: Jade Energy Texas REP Application Draws Intervention From Owners
Dec 23, 2014: Texas REP Video Offering Carbon Free Plans
Dec 22, 2014: TXU Energy Awarded 53 Million Contract By Defense Logistics Agency
Dec 22, 2014: Retail Supplier No Longer Affiliated With EDF Trading
Power Grid Security
Dec 22, 2014: South Korea Official Says Cannot Rule Out North’s Hand In Hack Of Nuclear Operator
Dec 22, 2014: Mysterious Drone Over Restarted Belgium Nuclear Plant Prompts Investigation
Dec 22, 2014: S. Korea Nuclear Plant Hack: 3 Reactors Demanded Closed By Christmas
Renewable Power
Dec 22, 2014: Analysts: Oil Price Slump Will Have ‘Modest’ Impact On Renewables Prospects
Dec 22, 2014: Green Mountain Power Creates B Corp Energy
Dec 22, 2014: Is Clean Energy Adoption Driving Down Oil Prices?
Dec 22, 2014: Obama Administration Charges Second Wind Power Producer For Killing Birds
Dec 19, 2014: Who Really Has Grassroots Support? Wind Energy
Dec 22, 2014: How Real Is The Off-Grid Solar Threat To Utilities? (Part II)
Dec 19, 2014: U.S. Should Save Nuclear Industry From Fracking Peril: IEA
Dec 19, 2014: Canadian Solar’s Statement on the Latest AD/CVD ruling by United States Department of Commerce
Dec 19, 2014: Planting Soybeans Instead Of Corn Below Wind Turbines Could Boost Power Generation
Dec 19, 2014: US Wind Tax Credit Extension Gives ‘Brief Opportunity’
Dec 19, 2014: US Power Sector Needs $2.1 Trillion in Investment by 2035, Says IEA
Dec 19, 2014: US To Impose Solar Tariffs On China And Taiwan
Dec 21, 2014: The Top Cleantech Buzzwords and Phrases From 2014
Dec 21, 2014: 2014 Meant More Renewables In More Places For Less Money: The Year In Review
Dec 19, 2014: Low Oil Prices Not Expected To Kill Renewables
Dec 17, 2014: The World’s Biggest Car Company Wants to Get Rid of Gasoline
Outside Texas
Dec 21, 2014: Energy-Storage Plans Gain Ground in California
Dec 22, 2014: Local Chinese Governments Give Financial Support To Leading U.S. Electric Vehicle Battery Company
Dec 22, 2014: The Detroit Power Outage: A Lesson for Cities about Microgrids
Dec 22, 2014: PJM Proposes Capacity Performance Rules That Will Present New Opportunities and Risks for Clean Energy Resources
Dec 22, 2014: European Coal Hits Seven-Year Low as Costs And Demand Drop
Dec 21, 2014: Nation’s Coal Mines Nearing Record Low In Worker Deaths
Dec 20, 2014: CODA Energy Installs Largest Behind-The-Meter Energy Storage System In Los Angeles Basin
Dec 18, 2014: DOJ’s Pepco-Exelon Review Focuses On Grid Lock
Dec 19, 2014: The Alarming Research Behind New York’s Fracking Ban
Dec 20, 2014: FPL Gets Approval To Charge Customers For Fracking Investment
Other News
Dec 23, 2014: Entergy’s River Bend Nuclear Plant Reports Event
Dec 22, 2014: Report: Texas Could Face 2.7 Trillion Gallon Water Shortfall by 2060
Dec 19, 2014: Beaumont Justices Hear Oral Arguments In Pipeline ‘Common Carrier’ Case
Dec 19, 2014: Russel Head, CEO, Andeler Power, Was Featured On DFW Radio Station
Dec 15, 2014: The Texas Energy Revolt
Dec 18, 2014: Water, Texas, and an Opportunity that should not be Wasted
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For the Week of 12/12/14 — 12/19/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Dec 17, 2014: Sierra Club Agrees To Legal Cease Fire With Luminant
Dec 18, 2014: Sierra Club, Luminant Agree To Legal Truce After Reaching Settlement
Dec 15, 2014: Texas State Law Could Short-Circuit Electricity Battery Breakthrough
Generation Adequacy
Dec 18, 2014: Options For Customers In Houston Electricity Market Are Missing
Dec 18, 2014: County Judge-Elect Pushing For Transmission Line Alternatives, Centerpoint Adds Public Meeting
Dec 16, 2014: ERCOT Forecasts Plenty Of Power For Winter Cold
Dec 18, 2014: ERCOT Cites Very Little Burden in Complying with EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Dec 18, 2014: Natural Gas Overwhelmingly Replaces Coal
Dec 16, 2014: ABB Boosts Power Transmission Capacity in Texas
Dec 16, 2014: EIA Releases 2013 Coal Distribution Report
Dec 17, 2014: SunPower and Sunverge Charge Into 2015 with Solar and Battery Storage Offering in the U.S. and Australia
Dec 16, 2014: AEMA Urges ERCOT To Focus On Expanding Demand Response, In Response to ERCOT’s Analysis of EPA Regulations Impacts
Dec 15, 2014: Summit: Redesign of The Texas Clean Energy Project Saved “A Couple Hundred Million”
Dec 15, 2014: Investor Buys Majority Share of Wind Farm East of Amarillo
Dec 15, 2014: EPA’s Regulatory ‘Trifecta’ Imperils The Texas Power Grid
Dec 15, 2014: $650 Million Deal Shifts Wind Farm Ownership from E.ON to Enbridge
Dec 12, 2014: FERC Plans Conferences On EPA Carbon Rule Impacts
Dec 12, 2014: Cheap Natural Gas Lures Private Equity To U.S. Power Industry
Headlines
Dec 18, 2014: Texas Could Be Headed for an Oil-Fueled Recession, J.P. Morgan Economist Says
Dec 18, 2014: Austin Braces For Tesla Lobbying Blitz
Dec 18, 2014: Scammers Posing As AEP Workers
Dec 17, 2014: Pattern Energy Expands Credit Facilities to $350 Million
Dec 17, 2014: Boerne, Seguin Settle LCRA Suits — No Cash To Change Hands
Dec 17, 2014: Class Actions Can Strain Retail Electric Providers
Dec 17, 2014: What The Senate’s Tax Bill Means For Wind Power
Dec 17, 2014: Congress Briefly Renews Tax Breaks For Wind, Biofuel
Dec 18, 2014: Electric Delivery Trucks Headed to Texas: UPS to Get 18 Workhorse E-100 All Electric Walk-In Vans.
Dec 16, 2014: Copper Theft Costs Texas Co-op $19,000
Dec 17, 2014: How Energy Markets Can Solve Modern Challenges
Dec 17, 2014: Senate Passes Bill Temporarily Renewing Wind Tax Breaks
Dec 16, 2014: TXU Energy Partnership with EnergyHub Enhances its iThermostat, with More Flexible Control Options for Customers
Dec 16, 2014: Facebook Complaints About Electric Solicitors Prompt Changes in Abilene
Dec 17, 2014: Buffet’s Smart Grid Idea Takes over your Washing Machine
Dec 8, 2014: Tesla round two: Carmaker will fight to change Texas law in 2015
Dec 16, 2014: Fitch: U.S. Utilities, Power and Gas Outlook Stable for 2015
Dec 15, 2014: Ascent Solar’s EnerPlex™ Brand Launches on BestBuy.com
Dec 15, 2014: U.S. Energy Boom’s Other Winner: Utilities
Dec 15, 2014: Electric Grid Operations Sound the Alarm: EPA’s Carbon Plan Wreaks Havoc with Reliable and Affordable Electricity
Dec 12, 2014: East Texas Electric Co-op Adds Biomass Capacity
Dec 12. 2014: Austin Aims for 950MW of Solar Along With Bold Distributed Energy Goals
Power Grid Security
Dec 18, 2014: DIA: North Korea Planned Attacks on US Nuclear Plants
Dec 15, 2014: Homeland Security Warns That Major Coronal Mass Ejection Could Be Catastrophic To Civilization
Renewable Power
Dec 18, 2014: E.On Commissions Large Scale Wind Power And Solar Energy Projects In The US, Including Texas
Dec 17, 2014: Space-Based Solar Power: The Energy Of The Future?
Dec 18, 2014: EIA: U.S. Wind Power Capacity Additions Expected To Increase In Final Quarter
Dec 17, 2014: Honda’s Hydrogen Fuel Car To Make U.S. Debut At Detroit Auto Show
Dec 17, 2014: What Spain Can Teach Texas About Solar Energy
Dec 18, 2014: America’s First Offshore Wind Project Hit With Waves Of Controversy
Dec 16, 2014: Local Market Conditions and Policies Strongly Influence Solar PV Pricing
Dec 18, 2014: US Confirms Steep Import Duties On Solar Products From China
Dec 16, 2014: Cheap Oil Saps Tesla, Alternative Energy ETFs’ Vigor
Dec 15, 2014: Cheap Gas Will Cause Electric-Car Sales To Plummet: True Or False?
Dec 17, 2014: Alt Energy Stocks Follow Crude Oil’s Ups and Downs
Dec 17, 2014: Mapping the Frontier of New Wind Power Potential
Dec 16, 2014: U.S. Trade Authorities Increase Tariffs On Solar Imports From China In Final Ruling
Dec 16, 2014: Nuclear Power Should Play “Substantial Role” In Mitigating Climate Change: Environmental Scientists
Dec 16, 2014: Geothermal Energy in 2014: Emerging Economies Power Up
Dec 16, 2014: Gosar, Other Lawmakers Raise Concerns With Solar Leases
Dec 15, 2014: DOE Release Draft Report on Plains And Eastern Clean Line Transmission Project
Dec 12, 2014: Rise of Clean Energy Staff Mirrors Texas’ Renewable Energy Boom
Dec 15, 2014: Falling Oil Prices Will Not Bother Solar
Dec 15, 2014: Wind Has More Than Enough Potential To Cover World’s Energy Needs
Dec 15, 2014: Nuclear Power Key to Protecting Biodiversity
Dec 15, 2014: Financial And Regulatory Barriers To USA’s New Nuclear Technologies
Dec 15, 2014: SunPower Invests $20 Million in Tendril to Bring Smart Energy Solutions to Market
Dec 12, 2014: Despite Green Energy Promises, Walmart’s Coal Consumption Remains Gargantuan
Dec 12, 2014: Wind Power A Growing Energy Source Worldwide
Dec 12, 2014: Myths And Facts About Using Solar Energy In Your Business
Outside Texas
Dec 18, 2014: PSE, RES Americas To Develop Battery Storage Project
Dec 18, 2014: Allete Buys NRG Energy’s 15-Year-Old Wind Farm for $15 Million
Dec 12, 2014: Largest Fuel Cell Power Plant Accepted in Germany
Dec 18, 2014: FERC Proposes $30 Million In Penalties Against Power Traders For Alleged Manipulation
Dec 17, 2014: NYISO Stakeholders Approve Pricing Proposal to Enhance Reliability, Fuel Assurance
Dec 17, 2014: PNM Proposes Solar Charge in New Mexico
Dec 15, 2014: MISO Ponders Larger DR Role despite Legal Challenges
Dec 15, 2014: N.Y. Orders Immediate Development of Distribution-Level Demand Response Programs
Dec 15, 2014: WPI Receives More Than $1.1 Million in Awards from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dec 12, 2014: Climate Deal Would Commit Every Nation to Limiting Emissions
Dec 12, 2014: Exelon Would Profit From Reforms Proposed By Operator Of Electric-Grid
Dec 15, 2014: PJM Proposes Changes to the Load Serving Entity Capacity Obligation Allocation As Part of Performance Proposal
Dec 15, 2014: CT Plans Utility-Offered Demand Response Programs If FERC Lack of Jurisdiction Upheld
Other News
Dec 18, 2014: The National Hockey League Going Carbon-Neutral with Constellation
Dec 18, 2014: Ecova, A subsidiary of Cofely, the Leading Brand of GDF SUEZ, Names Jana Schmidt President and CEO
Dec 18, 2014: Texas Railroad Commission Name Change A Start
Dec 18, 2014: 10K Energy to Relinquish Texas REP Certificate
Dec 18, 2014: True Electric to Relinquish Texas REP Certificate
Dec 18, 2014: Jade Energy Files Again to Change Ownership/Control
Dec 18, 2014: Acacia Energy Changes Name to Brooklet Energy Distribution
Dec 16, 2014: PUCT Denies Complaint and Appeal of Calpine and NRG vs ERCOT Endorsement of HIP
Dec 16, 2014: Source Power & Gas Amending Texas REP Certificate to Reflect Change in Ownership
Dec 16, 2014: Austin Energy Employees Accused Of Stealing Copper Wire
Dec 16, 2014: Oil Prices Are Dropping: Here’s What Could Be Coming
Dec 16, 2014: Falling Prices A Cloud On South, West Texas
Dec 15, 2014: Notice of Violation and Settlement for MP2 Energy in Texas
Dec 15, 2014: Palo Duro Wind Interconnection Services Registers as Texas PGC
Dec 15, 2014: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Registers as Texas PGC
Dec 15, 2014: ScottMadden Discusses Industry Trends with CPS Energy’s Governance and Executive Leadership
Dec 15, 2014: NRG Home Offering Ongoing Goal Zero Product Rewards for Northeast Residential Customers
Dec 15, 2014: Direct Energy Offering Free Electric Supply As Part of New TOU Plan for Small C&Is in Pennsylvania
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For the Week of 12/5/14 — 12/12/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Generation Adequacy
Dec 11, 2014: ERCOT Says November Wind Generation Was Highest Since April 2013
Dec 10, 2014: Fitch: U.S. Public Power Outlook Stable Amid Environmental Regulation and Declining Consumption
Dec 10, 2014: Fitch: Tax Credit May Raise US Wind Power Development Volatility
Dec 10, 2014: Sky’s the limit for solar in Texas
Dec 10, 2014: FOIA Denials Cost EPA $170,000 in Legal Fees
Dec 10, 2014: EPA May Miss Deadline On Climate Rule
Dec 10, 2014: Nuclear Energy Firms Raise Stakes in Projects
Dec 10, 2014: Power For Interconnection Region
Dec 9, 2014: Entergy to Purchase Bankrupt Union Power Station in El Dorado for $948M
Dec 9, 2014: GEH Robot Completes Buried Pipe Inspection At Texas Nuclear Plant
Dec 9, 2014: While Germany Explores Energy Storage Technologies at Breakneck Speeds, The US Isn’t Far Behind
Dec 8, 2014: Grid-Scale Storage: Smooth Operators
Dec 9, 2014: High Cost Hinders Progress of Carbon Capture As Climate-Change Fix
Dec 6, 2014: BTU Preparing For Winter Months at Dansby Power Plant
Dec 7, 2014: 2,000 Wind Turbines On The Horizon in Texas Counties
Dec 5, 2014: Improving Nuclear Power Plant Safety By Looking At Nature
Headlines
Dec 11, 2014: ERM Power Acquires Source Power and Gas
Dec 10, 2014: Texas Pflugerville Firm Awarded By U.S. Department Of Energy For ‘Revolutionary’ Wind Turbine Design
Dec 10, 2014: Xcel Energy Inc. Board Declares Dividend on Common Stock
Dec 9, 2014: Utilities, including TXU Energy, Roll Out Home Energy Analytics to Over 1.5 Million
Dec 9, 2014: NRG Energy Announces Plan to Repurchase Common Stock as First Part of its 2015 Capital Allocation Plan
Dec 7, 2014: The Push For A More Efficient Rural America
Dec 9, 2014: The Flexible and Evolving Power Distribution Grid
Dec 9, 2014: 2014, The Biggest Year Ever For Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) In United States
Dec 8, 2014: Two Texas Co-ops Get Oklahoma Wind
Dec 8, 2014: Xcel Energy Seeks Rate Increase For Texas Customers
Dec 9, 2014: NRG Energy (NRG) Approves $100M Buyback
Dec 8, 2014: Wal-Mart Investment in Solar Energy Transforms Industry
Dec 7, 2014: Los Fresnos CISD To See Return On Turbine Farm Tax Break
Dec 7, 2014: Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Rules Eased, Hints Future Investment Projects Could Be At Stake
Dec 6, 2014: Metals Finance Raises $3.7M, On Path To Being A U.S. Coal Producer
Dec 4, 2014: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Getting Dirtied But It Has Key Business Support
Dec 5, 2014: Kentucky, Fearing Impact Of Carbon Power Rule, Urges EPA To Rethink Proposal
Power Grid Security
Dec 10, 2014: Are Power Plant Transformers America’s Weakest Link?
Dec 7, 2014: Nuclear Plant Tests Response Time To Terrorist Attack
Renewable Power
Dec 11, 2014: Should Homeowners With Solar Panels Pay To Maintain Electrical Grid?
Dec 11, 2014: Can Wind Energy And Birds Coexist? Environmental Group Says Yes
Dec 11, 2014: Mapping the Frontier of New Wind Power Potential
Dec 11, 2014: Solar Energy Will Produce Less Than One Percent Of US Power In 2015
Dec 11, 2014: Solarcity And Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Create Program To Finance Approximately $400 Million In Residential Solar Projects
Dec 11, 2014: First Commercially Available Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Hit the Street
Dec 11, 2014: Honda Releases “Green Dealer” Guide to Help Auto Dealers Measurably Reduce their Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact
Dec 10, 2014: FERC: 102 MW Of Biomass Capacity Added In October
Dec 10, 2014: Community Solar Projects On The Rise With Announcement Of New Deal
Dec 10, 2014: EPA Seeks Comments on Delay in Issuing 2014 Standards Under Renewable Fuel Standard Program
Dec 10, 2014: Can Burning Tires Be Called Renewable Energy?
Dec 9, 2014: Sharp to sell US solar business to Canadian firm for $250 mn
Dec 9, 2014: MIT Study: Wind Farms Do Not Harm Human Health, But Annoy Some People
Dec 9, 2014: U.S. Solar Power Sector Booming
Dec 9, 2014: US Sees Second-Largest Solar Installation Growth In Q3
Dec 9, 2014: Walmart Stores : Walmart Banks On Solar Energy Savings
Dec 9, 2014: EPA Official Supports Biomass Exemptions from Greenhouse Gas Regulation
Dec 2, 2014: Is Pouring Funding Into Renewable Energy The Answer To Our Nation’s Electricity Grid Woes?
Dec 9, 2014: How Renewable Energy Jobs Are Changing America
Dec 9, 2014: Freeing The Grid Report Shows Which States Excel and Which States Lag in Promoting Solar
Dec 9, 2014: Dubai Shatters Solar Price Records – Lowest Ever!
Dec 9, 2014: Solar ETFs: Consumers Add to Surge in U.S. Installations
Dec 8, 2014: Wind Tax Credit: More Bang For Your Buck?
Dec 8, 2014: Global Wind Turbine Manufacturing Capacity Has Far Surpassed Demand, According to New Navigant Research Report
Dec 5, 2014: Can Renewables Power the Future?
Dec 5, 2014: Wind Power Subsidies Are Actually Killing Innovation In Renewables
Dec 5, 2014: What New Device Could Bring Wind Power Into Urban Areas?
Dec 5, 2014: Wind Industry Will Do Just Fine Regardless of U.S. Clean-Energy Subsidy
Dec 5, 2014: Solar Homes Are Mini Power Plants. Why Are Most of Them Out of Step With the Grid?
Dec 5, 2014: Is Renewable Energy Truly Providing the Winds of Change in the Data Center?
Oct 15, 2014: First US public offering of solar bonds: can crowdfunding take clean energy to the next level?
Emerging Technologies
Dec 9, 2014: Hydrogenics Proposes Storing Electrolyzed Hydrogen In Natural Gas Lines
Dec 9, 2014: HyperSolar Achieves Major Breakthrough in Splitting Water Into Renewable Hydrogen Fuel
Outside Texas
Dec 11, 2014: PJM’s Capacity Market Reforms Could ‘Erase Revenue Streams’ for Utility-Scale Solar
Dec 11, 2014: American Electric Power Company’s Trademark Application for “TRANSOURCE” Filed
Dec 11, 2014: Xcel Energy Announces New Upper Midwest Leader
Dec 9, 2014: World Loses $89.3 Billion to Electricity Theft Annually, $58.7 Billion in Emerging Markets
Dec 8, 2014: Toshiba To Merge US Power Businesses
Other News
Dec 11, 2014: Nations Power Relinquishing Texas REP Certificate
Dec 11, 2014: PUCT Dismisses Jade Energy Request to Change in Ownership/Control
Dec 11, 2014: Retail Supplier Now Marketing Healthcare Services
Dec 10, 2014: Senate Confirms Williams as Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
Dec 10, 2014: CenterPoint Energy ranks first in industry in The Civic 50
Dec 9, 2014: Texas Rep to Cease Marketing Under One of Its Texas Brands
Dec 9, 2014: Texas Co-ops Warn of Payment Scams
Dec 9, 2014: New Fed Report Highlights Booming Texas Economy
Dec 9, 2014: Just Energy Co-CEO to Keynote Energy Marketing Conference
Dec 9, 2014: Winter Season Ad for Texas Rep’s Free Nights
Dec 9, 2014: Texas Rep Brings Back “Naughty or Nice” $200 Enrollment Incentive for Holidays
Dec 9, 2014: Texas Rep’s New Plan? Get More, Save More
Dec 9, 2014: Champion Energy Offering Service in New State
Dec 4, 2014: Midland Ranks First In State For Job Creation
Dec 8, 2014: Newman Solar Registers as PGC
Dec 8, 2014: Route 66 Wind Power Registers as PGC and REC Generator
Dec 8, 2014: Briscoe Wind Farm Files to Register as REC Generator
Dec 8, 2014: New Retail Provider Receives Texas REP Certificate
Dec 8, 2014: Retail Provider Now Offering Insurance Quotes
Nov 26, 2014: Graham, Duncan: Greener Cars Are Insurance Against Oil Dependence
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For the Week of 11/28/14 — 12/5/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Generation Adequacy
Dec 4, 2014: EPA Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Permit for Guadalupe Power Plant close to San Antonio
Dec 4, 2014: Regional Approach Can Make Complying With EPA Rules 30% Cheaper
Dec 4, 2014: U.S. Navy to Deploy Vanadium-based Flow Battery Technology
Dec 3, 2014: Houston Is Getting A New Natural Gas Power Plant
Dec 2, 2014: Texas to Overhaul Its Grid-Balancing Services With Energy Storage
Dec 3, 2014: Environmentalists: Regional Haze Ruling in Texas Means Cleaner Air in Oklahoma
Dec 3, 2014: EPA Clean Power Plan to Cut Reliability, Cost Billions of Dollars, FERC’s Philip Moeller Says
Dec 2, 2014: In EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Texas Is The Target
Dec 2, 2014: Big Bend New Front In Pollution Fight
Dec 2, 2014: Arguments Mount over Interim Power Plant Regulations
Dec 2, 2014: Utilities Blast EPA With Clean Power Plan Concerns
Dec 2, 2014: Coal groups unite against Clean Power Plan
Dec 2, 2014: U.S. Nuclear Plants Squeezed by Cheap Gas, Uranium Costs
Dec 2, 2014: Electric Co-ops: EPA Rule Illegal, Imprudent and Impossible to Implement
Dec 2, 2014: Clean Air Groups Deliver Eight Millionth Comment Supporting Cleaning Up Power Plants
Dec 1, 2014: Texas Public Utility Commission calls on EPA to drop CO2 rule
Dec 1, 2014: Utilities Say EPA Carbon Plan May Put Reliable Power at Risk
Dec 1, 2014: Comment Period Closes For EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Industry Groups Have Their Say
Dec 1, 2014: The Cost Of Energy Storage
Nov 26, 3014: Thirst For Power Leaves Oil Industry Seeking Solutions In West Texas
Nov 25, 2014: Energy Storage Is Today Where Solar Was In 2010-Set For Exponential Growth
Nov 26, 2014: EPA Proposes Ozone Crackdown, Rankling Texas Officials
Nov 24, 2014: EPA Rejects Texas’ Plan to Reduce Haze at Oklahoma Wildlife Refuge
Nov 25, 2014: Texas Takes Over Greenhouse Gas Permitting From EPA
Nov 20, 2014: Does Texas Need a Carbon Tax to Meet EPA Climate Rules?
Dec 1, 2014: A Realistic Approach To Linking Carbon Markets
Nov 30, 2014: A Novel Way To Put Price On Carbon
Nov 28, 2014: How A Utility, Germany, Elon Musk And Falling Oil Prices Are Conspiring To Fight CO2
Headlines
Dec 4, 2014: Nueces Electric Coop Battles Copper Crime
Dec 4, 2014: Bluebonnet Officials Warn Consumers Of Scam
Dec 4, 2014: Fitch: 3Q14 US Utilities Earnings Underscore Slowdown
Dec 4, 2014: Fitch: Thermal, Renewable and Oil & Gas Projects Stable in 2015
Dec 4, 2014: Fitch Affirms Nextera on Acquisition; Hawaiian Electric on Watch Positive
Dec 4, 2014: NextEra’s Acquisition Of Hawaii’s Biggest Electric Utility May Be Bad News For Distributed Power Business
Dec 3, 2014: San Antonio to sell fresh round of debt for CPS Energy
Dec 3, 2014: Power Companies in Texas Amp Up Energy Management
Dec 3, 2014: Zacks Downgrades El Paso Electric Company to Underperform (EE)
Dec 2, 2014: Grimes County Faces Multiple Project Proposals. Including a Transmission Line Project
Dec 2, 2014: Local Xcel Power Plant Caught in Political Power Struggle Between TX, Federal Regulators
Dec 2, 2014: EnerNOC Acquires Pulse Energy to Expand Efficiency Offerings to Small Businesses
Dec 2, 2014: Los Fresnos CISD To See Return On Turbine Farm Tax Break
Dec 1, 2014: NRG Energy: Differentiation Through Renewable Energy Commitment
Dec 1, 2014: EPA Rule Could Mean Bigger Xcel Bills
Nov 30, 2014: Why Austin Utility Bill Discounts Aren’t Just Going To The Poor
Nov 26, 2014: CPS, Sprawl And Solar: SA’s Sustainable Report Card
Nov 28, 2014: Renewable Energy Investments, Solar Power Bode Well For San Antonio Energy Industry
Renewable Power
Dec 4, 2014: Algae Biomass Organization Welcomes House Extension of Biofuels Tax Credit, Calls for Long-Term Solution
Dec 4, 2014: Wind Power: Why Is A Three-Week PTC Extension Worthless?
Dec 4, 2014: New Study Says Wind Energy Has Double Benefits
Dec 4, 2014: Census Bureau Releases Biomass Power Plant Data
Dec 4, 2014: Students Shine a Spotlight on Geothermal Energy and Discover Career Pathways
Dec 3, 2014: NRG Energy Breaks Ground on Sustainable Headquarters
Dec 2, 2014: Alternative Energy Source Provides Sunny Outlook For Businesses
Dec 2, 2014: 4 Attacks Against Solar Energy in the United States
Dec 2, 2014: The Linchpin To A National Supergrid
Dec 3, 2014 House Approves Tax Credit For Wind Energy But Trouble Is Ahead
Dec 3, 2014: U.S. Puts More Cash Behind Solar Power
Dec 3, 2014: Solar Technology Tries To Muscle In On Crowded Energy Market
Dec 3, 2014: Top Renewable Plants Announced
Dec 3, 2014: Step Aside Solar Panels-This New Technology Could Change Everything
Dec 2, 2014: Camera, Action, Lights Now Powered by Solar at Historic Texas Theatre Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
Dec 2, 2014: World’s Largest Solar Power Plant With 9 Million Solar Panels Goes Online In USA
Dec 2, 2014: Marathon Capital Advises First Wind on Sale Transaction
Dec 2, 2014: GE Evolves LED Outdoor Lighting with 3 New Matching Fixtures
Dec 2, 2014: Solar Power’s Stunning Growth: US Generation Up 100 Percent This Year
Dec 2, 2014: Energy Efficiency and Renewables Are Lowest Risk/Cost Investments for Utilities
Dec 2, 2014: Tesla May Run Slow on Cheap Gas
Dec 1, 2014: Congress Could Revive Tax Credit For Wind Energy
Nov 29, 2014: What’s Wrong With A Second Look At Solar Leases?
Dec 1, 2014: Do We Risk Having Two-Tier Access to Renewable Energy?
Nov 26, 2014: Going Green: Texas Community National Branch Is Now Solar Powered
Nov 28, 2014: Enbridge To Buy 80% Stake In 2 U.S. Wind Power Farms, One in Texas, From Germany’s E.ON
Nov 23, 2014: Does ‘Clean Coal’ Technology Have a Future?
Nov 27, 2014: Why Plug-In Hybrid Cars Are Not Gasmobiles
Nov 25, 2014: Clues Show How Green Electricity May Be in 2050
Nov 26, 2014: The Myth of ‘Clean Energy’
Nov 20, 2014: Data Center Interest In Renewable Energy On The Rise
Nov 28, 2014: How Apple Became One of the Greenest Companies in America
Outside Texas
Dec 5, 2014: New England Generators Want to Eliminate Clawback in Capacity Market
Dec 1, 2014: New England Generators Want Demand Response Banned From Capacity Markets
Dec 4, 2014: Fluor Partners With Chinese Company On Nuclear, Wind And Solar Projects
Dec 3, 2014: U.S. Dept. of Justice Issues Civil Investigative Demand to PJM
Dec 3, 2014: PJM Revises Transition Period in Final Capacity Performance Design To Be Filed With FERC
Dec 3, 2014: Now Class Action Suits Targeting Retail Suppliers Over Alleged Do Not Call Violations
Dec 1, 2014: Australia Opens Door To Nuclear Energy
Dec 1, 2014: Calpine and Exelon Seek to Raise Capacity Prices Through Complaint at FERC
Dec 1, 2014: FERC Dumps Capacity Order Raising Costs for PJM Load by $2 Billion Annually on Black Friday
Nov 28, 2014: As Mexico Addresses Climate Change, Critics Point to Shortcomings
Nov 28, 2014: China, US Diverge On Approaches To Nuclear Energy
Nov 24, 2014: Green Energy Crashes Power Grid in Georgia Republic
Other News
Dec 4, 2014: Fort Stockton EDC Seeks Business Diversity
Dec 3, 2014: Potentia Energy Purchased by Verde Energy USA Texas
Dec 3, 2014: Green Pastures Wind II Files for PGC and REC Certification
Dec 3, 2014: Briscoe Wind Farm Files for PGC Registration
Dec 3, 2014: Constellation Announces 25 Community Champions Grant Recipients, Expands Program Reach
Dec 3, 2014: Saudi Arabia Declares Oil War on US Fracking, hits Railroads, Tank-Car Makers, Canada, Russia; Sinks Venezuela
Dec 2, 2014: Duke Energy Executive Leaves to Join NRG Petra Nova
Dec 2, 2014: TJC’s Energy Center To Offer First Power Plant Technology Program
Dec 2, 2014: Arlington Couple Fights Oncor to Protect Tree
Dec 3, 2014: Retail Supplier Publishes “Credit Scorecard” of 10 Largest Retail Suppliers
Dec 2, 2014: Neuman Solar Project Registers as REC Generator
Dec 2, 2014: Texas Reps Launch Offering of Free Smart Thermostats Under Texas Low-Income Program
Nov 25, 2014: Just Energy Affiliate Door-to-door Water Heater Firm Hit With $7 Million In Penalties
Dec 1, 2014: Texas Rep Ups Incentive for Nest Plans to Include $100 Gift Card
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For the Week of 11/21/14 — 11/28/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Nov 25, 2014: EFH Companies At Odds Over $5.2 Billion Battery Proposal; Oncor Loses Ally
Nov 25, 2014: Energy And Tech Butting Heads Over $5.2B Texas Battery Project
Generation Adequacy
Nov 25, 3014: San Bernard Co-op to Add Natural Gas Peak Power
Nov 25, 2014: Reed: Proposed Emissions Standards Would Devastate Power Plants, Destroy Jobs
Nov 25, 2014: EPA Rejects A Texas Clean-Air Plan, Orders Pollution Upgrades On Some Big Coal Plants
Nov 25, 2014: Energy from Ice and the World’s Largest Battery; Texas Looks to Join the Energy Storage Game
Nov 25, 2014: Energy Harvesting Widens Opportunities for Microbatteries
Nov 25, 2014: Nuclear Power’s Dark Future
Nov 25, 2014: FirstEnergy Says Demand Response Putting Power Plants Out Of Business
Nov 24, 2014: Dispute Over Big Bend Skies Tied To Coal-Fired Power Plants
Nov 24, 2014: EPA: Texas Coal Plants Should Spend $2B To Cut Emissions
Nov 24, 2014: Can the U.S. Government Revive Nuclear Power?
Nov 24, 2014: Utilities Press Railroad to Speed Coal Deliveries
Nov 21, 2014: Texas Power Gains Amid Higher Use and Lower-Than-Forecast Wind
Nov 21, 2014: Panda Power Funds’ 758MW natural gas power plant in Texas begins production
Nov 18, 2014: States Face Barriers To Cooperating On EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule On Power Plants
Nov 21, 2014: Sen. Whitehouse Introduces Bill to Provide for Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gas Emission Fees
Nov 21, 2014: Bigger, Cleaner, And More Efficient: A Carbon Corporate Tax Swap
Nov 19, 2014: EPA Finalizes Changes to MATS Startup and Shutdown Rules
Nov 21, 2014: EPA Delays Decision On Ethanol In Gas
Nov 22, 2014: RFS Announcement: A Cloud of Uncertainty With a Silver Lining
Nov 22, 2014: NRC’s Macfarlane Urges Industry to Focus on Safety and Public Outreach
Headlines
Nov 25, 2014: Expansion Sought For Transmission Network In The Texas Panhandle
Nov 25, 2014: Xcel Energy Announces Executive Changes
Nov 25, 2014: Tax Abatement Set For Texas Wind Project
Nov 25, 2014: Fitch Rates Seguin, TX’s Utility Revs, Series 2014 at ‘A+’; Outlook Stable
Nov 24, 2014: River Oaks Energy Partners with DFW International Airport to Lock in Electricity Costs Through 2017
Nov 24, 2014: Just Energy Announces Closing of the Sale of National Home Services to Reliance Comfort Limited Partnership for $505 Million
Nov 24, 2014: New NRG Digs Not Just Green, But Ultra-Green
Nov 24, 2014: Microgrids and On-Site Power Offer Relief to an Aging Electricity Grid
Nov 21, 2014: El Paso Electric : Announces Quarterly Dividend
Nov 21, 2014: New Coal Mine in Texas Expected To Produce For 50 Years
Nov 17, 2014: Breaking Down FERC’s Recent, And Pending, ROE Decisions
Nov 21, 2014: FERC Accepts NERC’s Five-Year Performance Assessment
Nov 21, 2014: FERC Looks at Fuel Assurance Issues Following Technical Conferences
Nov 21, 2014: Heinrich Introduces Bill to Modernize Nation’s Electric Transmission Grid
Nov 21, 2014: Integrated Approach Needed To U.S. Electricity Policy
Power Grid Security
Nov 24, 2014: Cyber Experts Divided Over The Scope Of Damage Of A Cyberattack On U.S.
Nov 18, 2014: DOE Launches App For Power Outages, Other Energy Emergencies
Renewable Power
Nov 25, 2014: Texas Co-ops Sign Up For Oklahoma Wind Energy
Nov 25, 2014: Texas Solar Growing, But 20% Goal Seen As ‘Ambitious’: Power Group CEO
Nov 25, 2014: Wind Power Dominates New U.S. Electrical Generating Capacity In October
Nov 25, 2014: Turning Woodchips Into Electricity
Nov 25, 2014: A Brief History Of Wind Power
Nov 25, 2014: Coming Clean: The State of US Renewable Energy
Nov 23, 2014: Toyota To Start Sales Of Fuel Cell Car Next Month
Nov 24, 2014: 3 Factors That Could Kill Renewable Energy Tax Extenders in 2014
Nov 24, 2014: SunEdison to Become World’s Biggest Renewable Company
Nov 24, 2014: EPA and City of San José officials will tour zero waste facility turning food scraps into renewable energy
Nov 24, 2014: Wind Power Sees Gain in U.S.
Nov 24, 2014: 2020 Vision: The Near Future of Solar Power
Nov 24, 2014: Solar Power Charging Ahead In America
Nov 21, 2014: Clean Energy and Job Creation Go Hand-in-Hand in San Antonio
Nov 21, 2014: IKEA Purchases Second U.S. Wind Farm in Texas To Provide Clean Energy To Their Stores
Nov 21, 2014: SolarCity Signs Multiyear Solar And Energy Storage Deal With Walmart
Nov 21, 2014: Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels
Nov 19, 2014: NARUC Addresses the Marriage of Gas and Renewables
Nov 21, 2014: The Cost of Solar Panels for Your Home
Nov 21, 2014: Microsoft Enters Strategic Partnership With Tunisia Over Wind Power
Nov 21, 2014: Renewable Energy: Does It Need Critically Rare Materials?
Nov 21, 2014: GE Builds Brilliant Future of Wind Energy with 25,000th Wind Turbine Installed
Nov 21, 2014: Feds Find Struggling Western Bird Needs 3-Mile Buffer From Drilling, Impacting Energy Industry
Nov 20, 2014: GOOGLE ‘C’ : Wind To Power New Google Datacenter
Nov 21, 2014: Wind Energy Industry Protests Bird-Kill Fine
Nov 21, 2014: Wind Power Saves Regional Electricity Customers $1.2 Billion Each Year, Report Says
Nov 21, 2014: NREL Teams with SolarCity to Maximize Solar Power on Electrical Grids
Nov 18, 2014: Power Sector Fossil Fuel Revenues Decrease While Renewable Energy Grows Rapidly
Outside Texas
Nov 24, 2014: Direct Energy: Consumers in PJM Being Asked to Pay for Improved Reliability via New Capacity Performance Structure
Nov 24, 2014: More Class Action Suits Filed Against Retail Suppliers Solely Over Whether Pricing Was “Market-Based”
Nov 24, 2014: RES Americas Announces Two Energy Storage Projects Outside Of Chicago
Nov 24, 2014: You Could Soon Be Paying to Keep Open a Coal-Fired Power Plant No One Wants
Nov 21, 2014: PJM Prices Hit November Record In Cold Snap
Other News
Nov 25, 2014: Pro Power Providers Undergo Change in Ownership/Control
Nov 25, 2014: Officials Warn Of Local Energy Bill Telephone Scam In Waco
Nov 25, 2014: Texas Scammers Threatening Disconnection Have New Trick
Nov 25, 2014: Oncor to Lower Priority Move-In Fee
Nov 25, 2014: Freeport LNG Lines Up $11 Billion In Capital
Nov 24, 2014: Ziphany, Glacial Affiliate, Soliciting Bids for Sale
Nov 24, 2014: Direct Energy Parent Seeing Success with New Tariff From Supermarket-Branded Retail Energy Supplier
Nov 21, 2014: How To Shop For Electricity In Texas
Nov 17, 2014: Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Light Bulbs
Nov 23, 2014: Tesla Says In Talks With BMW Over Car Batteries, Parts
Nov 17, 2014: FERC Isn’t Responsible For Gauging Projects’ Impact On Warming — Lafleur
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For the Week of 11/14/14 — 11/21/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Nov 18, 2014: Three Reasons Oncor’s Energy Storage Proposal Is a Game Changer
Nov 18, 2014: Oncor Rebuts PUC Memo Claiming Maintenance Cuts
Nov 15, 2014: Oncor Wants To Play The Innovator
Nov 11, 2014: How TXU Is Leveraging Disaggregation To Become A ‘Trusted Energy Advisor’
Nov 17, 2014: TXU Energy Earns Spot Among Top 100 Places to Work in 2014
Nov 15, 2014: Within A Very Short Timeframe, These Energy Storage Stories Will No Longer Be Noteworthy
Generation Adequacy
Nov 20, 2014: Panda Sherman Power Dedicates New $350 Million Texas Power Plant
Nov 19, 2014: 2014/2015 Winter Outlook: Sufficient Power Supplies Expected, but Natural Gas Pipeline Constraints an Ongoing Concern
Nov 20, 2014: NRG, One Of The Nation’s Largest Energy Companies Just Pledged To Slash Its Emissions By 90%
Nov 20, 2014: NRG Seeks to Cut 90% of Its Carbon Emissions
Nov 20, 2014: US FERC Recommends Plant Receive More Time For EPA Emissions Rule Compliance
Nov 20, 2014: Does Texas Need a Carbon Tax to Meet EPA Climate Rules?
Nov 20, 2014: House Passes Bill to Usher in New Era of EPA Transparency
Nov 20, 2014; EPA Carbon Plan and Power Plant Regulations Will Cause Energy Prices to Soar
Nov 20, 2014: Can We Meet EPA Carbon Emissions Goals Without Going Nuclear?
Nov 19, 2014: Early Cold Snap Set A New November Record For Texas Electric Demand
Nov 19, 2014: Eos Energy Storage Sells Battery System to GDF SUEZ for Testing at R&D Headquarters
Nov 18, 2014: ERCOT Wants ‘Safety Valve’ In EPA Plan
Nov 18, 2014: Here’s a Utility Hiding Some Facts About the EPA Clean Power Plant Rule
Nov 18, 2014: EPA CO2 Rules Could Boost Nuclear Power
Nov 18, 2014: Nuclear Expansion Poses The Greatest Threat To Security
Nov 17, 2014: Texas Power Grid Chiefs Say EPA’s CO2 Plan Would Raise Costs, Might Threaten Reliability
Nov 17, 2014: ERCOT: Here’s How EPA’s Carbon Rules Could Affect Your Electric Bill, Reliability
Nov 17, 2014: ERCOT: EPA Rules Will Cost Texas Consumers
Nov 16, 2014: Solar Poised To Increase Market Share In Texas
Nov 14, 2014: El Paso Electric Marking Rio Grande Power Plant’s 85th Birthday
Nov 13, 2014: Texas Power Surges as Cold Boosts Use With Plants Out
Nov 14, 2014: CenterPoint Wins A Round In High-Powered Line Dispute
Nov 13, 2014: Running Low On Coal, Utilities Ask Regulators To Prod Railroads
Headlines
Nov 20, 2014: Bryan Texas Utilities Inspecting Electricity Poles
Nov 20, 2014: Texas-Based Sunnova Claims Record $250m Funding Round
Nov 20, 2014: Texas Based Sunnova Gets $250 Million Funding To Expand Its Solar Power Business
Nov 19, 2014: Electric Reliability From the Customer View
Nov 20, 2014: Using Big Data, Smart Grid Startups Itemize Utility Bills
Nov 19, 2014: The Future Of The U.S. Nuclear Industry Depends On Collaboration
Nov 19, 2014: PEC To Lower Delivery Charge On Power Bills
Nov 19, 2014: Utility Bills in Yorktown Texas May Be Lower
Nov 20, 2014: Centrica, Direct Energy’s Parent Company, Lowers Earnings Forecast As Mild Weather Bites
Nov 20, 2014: Centrica Interim Management Statement
Nov 20, 2014: Direct Energy Sees 50% Higher C&I Unit Margins, Residential Customer Count Drops
Nov 18, 2014: NRG Energy Sets Long-Term Sustainability Goals at Groundbreaking of “Ultra-Green” New Headquarters
Nov 19, 2014: Financing Complete, Texas based Panda Power Funded Leesburg Power Plant Moves To Construction Phase
Nov 19, 2014: Bechtel, Siemens to Build Panda Power Funded 778-MW Natural Gas Plant in Loudoun County
Nov 18, 2014: CPS To Postpone Rate Hike Request
Nov 18, 2014: Pflugerville Texas School District Powers 11 Schools with Solar
Nov 18, 2014: IKEA Announces Its Largest Global Wind Investment To Date: 165 Megawatts in Texas
Nov 18, 2014: ACCIONA Windpower to Supply 165 MW for IKEA’s Largest Renewable Energy Project in Texas to Date
Nov 18, 2014: Texas Customers Question Electric Company’s Billing Practices
Nov 18, 2014: Solar San Antonio’s Sinkin To Step Down, Help Kingdom Of Hawaii
Nov 18, 2014: Uranium Energy Corp Reports a 77% Increase in Estimated Uranium Resource at Burke Hollow Project in South Texas
Nov 17, 2014: Texas Coalition for Affordable Power: Member Cities Receive End-Of-Year Dividends
Nov 17, 2014: Demand For Energy-Efficient Data Centers Being Met By Dallas-Based Mestex
Nov 17, 2014: Entergy announces new Transmission Operations Center in Little Rock
Nov 14, 2014: Industry-Government Partnerships Critical To Resiliency Of Us Electric Power Grid
Nov 17, 2014: Fitch Rates Duke Energy Progress’ First Mortgage Bonds ‘A+’
Nov 13, 2014: Power Line Forum Draws Hundreds As Frisco Urges Underground Route
Nov 13, 2014: Oncor Juices Up Tree Trimming After Storm Outages In North Texas
Nov 14, 2014: New Battery Could Propel The Renewable Energy Market
Nov 13, 2014: ‘Battery Guru’ Says More Energy Storage Research Needed
Power Grid Security
Nov 20, 2014: NSA Director: China Can Damage US Power Grid
Nov 11, 2014: Blackenergy Malware Threat Has Some Uneasy
Renewable Power
Nov 20, 2014: Star Power: The Growing Role of Solar Energy in Texas
Nov 20, 2014: Solar Power Should Be One-Fifth Of All Energy In Texas By 2025
Nov 20, 2014: Amazon Pledges Its Data Centers Will Go Green
Nov 20, 2014: Congress Must Not Let Wind Energy Jobs Blow Away
Nov 20, 2014: Walmart Builds on Leadership of Commercial Solar Deployment and Expands On-Site Solar Energy Projects
Nov 20, 2014: Environmentalists Accuse Walmart Of Failing On Renewable Energy Targets While Using Too Much Coal Power
Nov 20, 2014: GOOGLE ‘C’ : Wind To Power New Google Datacenter
Nov 20, 2014: Khol’s Earns EPA Sustained Excellence in Green Power Award
Nov 20, 2014: SolarCity Announces New Solar Power And Energy Storage Projects With Walmart
Nov 20, 2014: America Could Power Itself 100 Times Over With Solar Energy, Concentrated Solar Power And Photovoltaic
Nov 20, 2014: U.S. EPA Crowns 2014 Green Power Leaders
Nov 20, 2014: Sullivan Solar Power Leads the Pack with Technology Innovations for Solar Energy Integrators
Nov 20, 2014: US Wind Power – Market Analysis and Forecast till 2030
Nov 20, 2014: Turkey Looks For Energy In An Abundant Resource: Pistachio Shells
Nov 19, 2014: NRG Energy Solar Unit Expands in California, Offers Loans
Nov 15, 2014: UK Energy Minister: Solar Farms Not Welcome In The UK
Nov 19, 2014: Google Buys Up 62MW Of Dutch Wind Power
Nov 18, 2014: Huge Solar Plant Isn’t Getting Results
Nov 18, 2014: Revolutionary Wind-Turbine Blade from Texas Startup Company
Nov 18, 2014: Focused Sun: Low-Cost Solar Panel Captures Four Times More Energy
Nov 18, 2014: HyperSolar Looks to Future as Hydrogen Fuel Demand Increases
Nov 18, 2014: NRG Home Solar Expands Operations in California
Nov 18, 2014: Census Bureau Economic Data Show Electric Power Generation Using Renewable Energy Growing
Nov 17, 2014: San Antonio Leads Texas In Solar Industry
Nov 14, 2014: CPS’s Solar Deal Rolls On As Nexolon Fades
Nov 17, 2014: BP Losing Battle With Renewables
Nov 17, 2014: Huge Solar Plant Lags In Early Production
Nov 13, 2014: The Coming Solar Power Boom: Charts Tell The Story, Grid Parity In 2 Years
Nov 11, 2014: How Green Are Those Solar Panels, Really?
Nov 17, 2014: Coming To A Mall Near You: A Green Alternative To Home Depot
Nov 13, 2014: SunPower Is Tripling Solar Capacity, Boosting Cell Efficiency, Adding Energy Management and Storage
Nov 17, 2014: SunEdison and TerraForm Power Sign Definitive Agreement To Acquire First Wind For $2.4 Billion
Nov 17, 2014: Wind Power, A Safe Source Of Electricity
Nov 14, 2014: United States Air Force Unveils Plug-In Electric Vehicle Fleet at Los Angeles Air Force Base
Nov 18, 2014: Toyota Says Mirai Is The Future Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell VehiclesNov 14, 2014: Dallas Academy Flips Switch on Solar Array the Size of Football Field
Nov 17, 2014: NRG Home Solar Eyes California’s Residential Market
Nov 17, 2014: NRG Betting Big On Rooftop Solar In California
Nov 13, 2014: Affordable Solar Power Could Be Just One 3M Employee Away
Nov 13, 2014: Map: Many States on Track to Meet or Exceed Clean Power Plan Renewable Energy Aims
Nov 13, 2014: EPA Recognizes the First Existing Apartment, Condo Buildings with ENERGY STAR Certification
Nov 14, 2014: Fitch: US Wind Power Production Underperformance May Continue
Nov 14, 2014: A Battery to Prop Up Renewable Power Hits the Market
Nov 14, 2014: Ford To Collaborate With Wind Energy To Deliver Clean Energy To Dealers
Nov 14, 2014: Westinghouse Solar : Andalay Solar Launches the Sale of American-Assembled Modules
Emerging Technologies
Nov 20, 2014: Nuclear AMRC & US Firm Sign Agreement To Develop Next Generation Small Modular Reactors
Nov 14, 2014: Eaton Develops Efficient Electric Lockout Device for Safer Machine Maintenance
Outside Texas
Nov 21, 2014: FERC “Encourage[s]” RTOs to Examine Energy Market Rule Changes (Greater Scarcity Pricing) to Provide Fuel Assurance
Nov 19, 2014: China’s Energy Plan Reduces Reliance On Coal
Nov 18, 2014: PJM Ready For Winter, But Worried About Next Year
Nov 18, 2014: PG&E Announces Two Major Electric Vehicle Initiatives At The White House With Senior Administration Officials
Nov 17, 2014: U.S.-China Climate Surprise — A Coal Plant That Stores CO2 And Makes Fresh Water
Nov 17, 2014: Generators File Complaint to Disqualify Demand Response From ISO-NE Capacity Auction
Nov 14, 2014: Direct Energy Maintains Price Protection Through December 2014 in Massachusetts
Nov 14, 2014: Government Watchdog Confirms DOE Nuclear Technology Export Process May Inhibit U.S. Competition
Nov 15, 2014: What Does It Cost To Decommission A Nuclear Power Plant?
Nov 13, 2014: Power Line Offers Bigger Benefits Than Pipeline
Other News
Nov 21, 2014: Retail Market Veteran Joins Texas REP as VP of Sales
Nov 21, 2014: Former Calpine Manager Leading New Broker
Nov 20, 2014: Constellation Announces 2014 E2 Energy to Educate Grant Recipients
Nov 19, 2014: ABB Delivers Customized Training Switchgear To Texas Technical College
Nov 18, 2014: Front Line Power Solutions Files to Become Aggregator
Nov 18, 2014: PowerOne Pursues Acquisition of Retail Energy Providers
Nov 18, 2014: NRG Names New Managing Director for NRG Retail Northeast
Nov 18, 2014: Spark Revises Customer Book Acquisition in Response to Regulator Concerns
Nov 18, 2014: Public Forum to be Held on the PowerToChoose.org Website
Nov 18, 2014: Retail Supplier Names Former Direct Energy VP As New COO
Nov 18, 2014: Solar Provider Hires Former Tesla Director
Nov 17, 2014: Stream Energy to Reveal Mobile Launch Strategy to Associates at Super Saturday Event Nov. 15
Nov 17, 2014: North American Power Launches Service in Texas
Nov 14, 2014: Nexans Introduces New EV Charging Solutions
Nov 14, 2014: NRG eVgo to Bring Electric Vehicle Fast Charging to Chicago
Nov 14, 2014: Nissan Offers Free Public Charging for New LEAF Buyers in Chicago
Nov 14, 2014: How Elon Musk Cleverly Manipulated 7 States To Compete For Tesla’s Huge Factory
Nov 14, 2014: Quenching Our Future: Protecting The Rio Grande Basin’s Dwindling Water
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For the Week of 11/7/14 — 11/14/14
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Nov 13, 2014: Oncor Proposes Massive Battery Storage Project On The Grid With Tesla
Nov 13, 2014: Texas Utility Sees Benefits In Potential $2B Battery Storage Rollout
Nov 11, 2014: Hunts’ InfraREIT Plans IPO before Oncor Sale
Nov 10, 2014: Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Donating $100,000 to Counties in Support of Emergency Preparedness Activities
Nov 10, 2014: Oncor Plans $2 Billion Battery Fix for Wavering Wind and Solar Power
Nov 10, 2014: Texas Utility Oncor Wants to Invest $5.2B in Storage: Can It Get Approval?
Nov 10, 2014: Quote Du Jour: On Bankruptcy And Perceptions
Nov 8, 2014: Oncor Proposes Giant Leap For Grid, Electricity Storage Batteries
Nov 9, 2014: Oncor’s New Downtown Waco Electric Substation Planned To Improve Reliability
Generation Adequacy
Nov 12, 2014: Texas Sets A New Wind Power Record In November
Nov 13, 2014: Texas, The U.S. Wind Energy Leader Now Looks To Battery Storage
Nov 13, 2014: China-U.S. Climate Agreement Raises Questions For Texas Carbon Policy
Nov 13, 2014: Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
Nov 13, 2014: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Becomes Sole Permitting Authority for Greenhouse Gases in Texas
Nov 13, 2014: ERCOT Energy Saver Mobile App Offers Access to Real-time Grid Information
Nov 12, 2014: Pattern Energy Acquires Panhandle 2 Wind Power Facility in Texas as it Reaches Commercial Operation
Nov 12, 2014; Analyzing Combined Heat and Power in the US
Nov 10, 2014: Perry, Palo Verde Nuclear Power Units Go Offline
Nov 5, 2014: NRC Resumes Nuclear Power Plant License Renewals
Nov 10, 2014: Benefits of Texas Wind Energy Estimated to Exceed $3.3 Billion Annually
Nov 9, 2014: Will There Be Enough Coal for Winter Power?
Nov 5, 2014: Saulsbury Industries Wins Contract from El Paso Electric
Nov 6, 2014: First Wind Closes Financing On Second Project In Texas With MUFG
Nov 7, 2014: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Probed by Lawyers and Legislators for Weaknesses
Nov 7, 2014: What the Clean Power Plan Means for You & How to Tackle Building a Compliance Strategy
Nov 6, 2014: EIA: Coal Stockpiles At Coal-Fired Power Plants Smaller Than In Recent Years
Headlines
Nov 13, 2014: Centerpoint Energy Reports Lower Q3 Net Income, Affirms Guidance For 2014
Nov 13, 2014: Dynegy Reports Net Loss For Q3, Updates Annual Guidance
Nov 13, 2014: AEP Raises 2015 Operating Earnings Guidance, Reaffirms 2016 Operating Earnings Guidance Range
Nov 13, 2014: Exelon’s Diversification Strategy Drives Growth in Challenging Energy Market
Nov 12, 2014: Texas A&M Campus In Doha Launches Smart Grid Center
Nov 13, 2014: NRG Energy Selects Steve McBee as President and CEO of NRG Home
Nov 12, 2014: Entergy Reports Lower Q3 Net Income, Affirms Guidance For 2014
Nov 12, 2014: Texas Electric Cooperative’s Safety Milestone
Nov 10, 2014: Texas based Biofuel Maker KiOR Files For Bankruptcy, But Not Miss. Unit
Nov 6, 2014: Direct Energy President and CEO Talks Innovations in Energy
Nov 12, 2014: No, Obama’s Carbon Limits Won’t Mean Massive Power Outages
Nov 12, 2014: The Clean Power Plan Offers Common Sense Pollution Reduction
Nov 11, 2014: American Electric Lifts FY15 Operating EPS Guidance
Nov 10, 2014: FERC Chair LaFleur says agency can help implement EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Nov 11, 2014: RES Americas Announces Largest Energy Storage Projects in North America
Nov 10, 2014: EPA’s Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans for Texas
Nov 10, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
Nov 10, 2014: Dynegy Inc. Receives Early Termination of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Waiting Period
Nov 7, 2014: Fitch Affirms Austin’s (TX) Electric Utility System Revs at ‘AA-’; Outlook Stable
Nov 7, 2014: Calpine Completes Purchase of Fore River Energy Center in New England for $530 Million
Nov 6, 2014: Silver Spring Networks Opens New San Antonio Office as CPS Energy Smart Grid Deployment Ramps Up
Nov 7, 2014: Uranium Resources Adds Properties in Texas and Plans 2015 Drilling Program on Mid-Term Alta Mesa Este Project
Nov 9, 2014: NRG and Google-Owned Solar Company Request $540 Million Bailout To Help Pay $1.6 Billion Loan
Oct 31, 2014: Is The Ivanpah Solar Facility Living Up To Expectations?
Oct 29, 2014: NRG’s Solar Plant Production Falls below Expectations
Nov 4, 2014: 5 Energy Trends That Will Change The Balance Of Power
Renewable Power
Nov 12, 2014: U.S. is Closer to Building Zero-Net Energy Communities
Nov 12, 2014: World Needs More Cleaner Energy
Nov 13, 2014: US Wind Energy Industry Touts Global Leadership in New Tax Credit Push
Nov 13, 2014: Breakthrough Wind Blade Concept Wins Outstanding Venture Award at Clean Energy Industry Growth Forum
Nov 13, 2014: Abengoa to Develop in Belgium the Largest Biomass Power Plant in the World
Nov 13, 2014: New Initiatives Debut at Industry Growth Forum
Nov 13, 2014: Don’t Let Congress Stall Wind Power In 2015
Nov 13, 2014: Obama’s Deal With China Is A Big Win For Solar, Nuclear, And Clean Coal
Nov 10, 2014: East Texas Electric Cooperative’s Woodville Renewable Power Project Completed and Online Ahead of Schedule
Nov 10, 2014: OwnEnergy, Mortenson Build 67 MW Texas Wind Farm
Nov 13, 2014: After Solyndra Loss, U.S. Energy Loan Program Turning A Profit
Nov 8, 2014: Market, Not Regulation, Should Drive Clean Energy
Nov 11, 2014: U.S. Is World’s #1 Wind Energy Producer, leading China and Germany
Nov 12, 2014: US Power Market (Thermal, Hydro, Renewable and Nuclear) Trends, Regulations, and Competitive Landscape to 2030
Nov 12, 2014: Renewable Energy ‘Fundamentally Too Weak’ To Provide Grid Power, Says Economist
Nov 12, 2014: Solar Roads Being Developed In The Netherlands
Nov 11, 2014: Vestas Supplies Texas And Poland With Wind Turbines
Nov 10, 2014: VESTAS Wins Order For 100 Turbines For 200MW South Plains Wind Farm In TEXAS
Nov 7, 2014: Will Congress Extend Tax Credits For Wind?
Nov 11, 2014: Distributed Resources Could Make DG Solar Utilities Easier
Nov 11, 2014: U.S.-China Smackdown: America No. 1 In Wind Power
Nov 11, 2014: Company Channeling Wind Power With Turbines, Blimps
Nov 11, 2014: DOE Announces $53 Million to Cut Solar Power Costs
Nov 10, 2014: Energy Department Announces New Investments in Gasification Research
Nov 11, 2014: SEIA Embraces Efforts to Double Renewables Worldwide by 2030
Nov 11, 2014: Do Green Power Certificates Boost Green Power?
Nov 11, 2014: Nuclear Plants on the Edge Could Benefit from Clean Power Plan
Nov 11, 2014: Thermal Solar Energy — Some Technologies Really Are Dumb
Nov 10, 2014: Large solar selling cheaper than fossil fuels in Texas, Georgia, India, Brazil, and Chile
Nov 10, 2014: What Plummeting Oil Prices Mean For Renewable Energy
Nov 10, 2014: Wind Power Growth GIF, + Wind Turbine Growth Chart
Nov 10, 2014: Algae Biomass Organization Expands Carbon Utilization Campaign
Nov 10, 2014: Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell A Finalist For 2015 Green SUV Of The Year
Nov 10, 2014: Bourne Energy Develops Solar-Hydro Hybrid Power Generator
Nov 10, 2014: Exclusive Pilot Program with Wind Energy Corporation Brings Clean Energy to Select Ford Dealers
Nov 6, 2014: Wind Towers Catching Texas Crop Dusters Off Guard
Nov 6, 2014: NextEra Energy Ranked As Top Green Utility In North America As Part Of EI Energy Intelligence Global Ranking
Nov 7, 2014: Clean Energy Jobs on Rise in Q3 2014
Nov 7, 2014: NRECA Unveils Interactive Website Tracking Cooperative Solar Development
Nov 8, 2014: Solar Industry Is Heating Up Again After Stumbling During Recession
Nov 7, 2014: Scientists Are Going to Shoot Lasers Into the Sky to Measure the Wind
Nov 4, 2014: New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent Of Captured Light Into Heat
Nov 7, 2014: Here Comes the Sun: America’s Solar Boom, in Charts
Nov 4, 2014: SMUD Releases Request for Statements of Interest in Developing a Biomass Gasification Project
Nov 8, 2014: Massive Lake Huron Wind Development Planned for Key Migratory Bird Corridor
Nov 7, 2014: Solar Eclipse Next March Threatens Europe Solar Grid, Temp ‘May Drop 6C In 30 Minutes’
Outside Texas
Nov 13, 2014: EPRI Extends Nuclear Research With Japan
Nov 10, 2014: First Underground Coal Gasification License Issued In 20 Years
Nov 10, 2014: Pepco To Utilize Car Charging Stations In Demand Response Pilot
Nov 10, 2014: Fukushima Radiation Identified Off Northern California
Nov 7, 2014: Nuclear Energy And The 2014 Mid-Term Elections
Nov 7, 2014: Energy in the 114th Congress
Nov 7, 2014: Japan Governor Approves First Reactor Restart
Nov 7, 2014: BMW Develops Street Lights With Electric Car-Charging Sockets
Other News
Nov 14, 2014: NA Power Files to Amend Texas REP Certification
Nov 14, 2014: TX Hereford Wind Registers as a Texas REC Generator
Nov 13, 2014: EPA Announces Support For Small Businesses To Bring Green Technology, Innovative Research To Marketplace/Small Businesses
Nov 14, 2014: Will Austin’s Green Self-Image Be Realized In Its “Zero Waste” Goals?
Nov 11, 2014: Latest Electric Car Innovation Could Recharge Batteries In Minutes
Nov 12, 2014: Former NRG Exec Joins Andalay Solar as COO
Nov 11, 2014: LoneStar Wind Registers as Texas PGC
Nov 11, 2014: NorthStar Wind Registers as Texas PGC
Nov 11, 2014: Texas Rep Announces Prepaid Product, Complimentary Electricity
Nov 11, 2014: Still Using Faxed Ads to Promote Retail Energy Offers? This FCC Ruling Will Be of Interest
Nov 7, 2014: Entergy Texas NOV and Settlement Agreement Filed
Nov 7, 2014: Power Outages In Laredo After Fire In Network
Nov 6, 2014: EPA, DOE Release 2015 Fuel Economy Guide for Car Buyers
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For the Week of 10/31/14 — 11/7/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Nov 5, 2014: Oncor To Pump $1.2 Billion Into Power Infrastructure
Nov 5, 2014: TXU Parent Reports Less Than 1% Decline in Residential Customer Count
Nov 4, 2014: Invesco Fund Treads Risky Path as Major Investor in Distressed Corporate Debt
Nov 3, 2014: Judge Allows EFH To Continue With Oncor Auction, But With Greater Oversight
Nov 3, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Given Conditional OK To Take Oncor Bids
Nov 3, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Gets Closer To Oncor Auction With Judge’s Ruling
Nov 2, 2014: Energy Future’s Speedy Bankruptcy Hinges on Today’s Oncor Ruling
Nov 3, 2014: Judge Will Decide Today On How EFH’s Auction Of Oncor Moves Forward
Nov 1, 2014: Outages, Waits To Have Power Restored Put Focus On Oncor’s Maintenance Spending
Generation Adequacy
Nov 6, 2014: Conservancy Worries Power Lines Could Harm Katy Prairie
Nov 6, 2014: Texas’ J. Robert Welsh Power Plant Automates Callout With ARCOS
Nov 5, 2014: Texas Electricity Rises Amid Lower Wind Production
Nov 5, 2014: Upgrading South Texas Power Lines
Nov 5, 2014: NRG Vs Centerpoint: Houston Power Project Debate Heats Up
Nov 5, 2014: NRG’s Crane: “Texas Will Never Be In a Multi-Year Scarcity of Generation”
Nov 5, 2014: Residents Worried CenterPoint Electric Could Take Over Parts of Grimes County
Nov 5, 2014: Construction Begins on New NRG Natural Gas Peaking Plant near Houston
Nov 4, 2014: Comverge and Constellation Close Transaction to Form New, Standalone Demand Response Company Named CPower
Nov 5, 2014: NRG Adds Some Power To Houston Transmission Line Debate
Oct 31, 2014: Alstom To Provide High Efficiency Heat Recovery Steam Generators For Exelon’s Two Combined-Cycle Gas Power Plants In Texas
Oct 31, 2014: Power Weakness In Valley Studied by ERCOT
Oct 31, 2014: ERCOT: Region To Have Sufficient Electric Supplies This Winter
Oct 29, 2014: America’s Electricity Grid: Outdated or Underrated?
Nov 1, 2014: Residents To Offer Input On New Power Line In Grimes County
Headlines
Nov 6, 2014: NRG Reports Higher Retail Margins, But Challenging C&I Space Prompts “Repositioning”
Nov 6, 2014: Calpine Reports Third Quarter Results, Narrows 2014 Guidance and Provides 2015 Guidance
Nov 5, 2014: Grid Overseer Warns of Reliability Risks Under EPA’s Proposal
Nov 5, 2014: The Biggest Energy Non-Issue in Tuesday’s Election
Nov 6, 2014: Why Is EPA Penalizing Nuclear, the Nation’s Third Largest Energy Source?
Nov 6, 2014: Coal May Get More Time to Burn
Nov 6, 2014: NRG’s David Crane Begins to ‘Pull Back the Curtain’ on a Retail Solar Strategy
Nov 5, 2014: NRG Energy (NRG) Misses Q3 Earnings Estimates, Up Y/Y
Nov 5, 2014: NRG Energy: 20% of Texas Customers Buy More Than One Product from NRG
Nov 5, 2014: Xcel Energy Clamps Down On Copper Theft
Nov 5, 2014: How Exelon Stands to Shape US Energy Policy
Nov 5, 2014: Electric Utilities On Right Track With Clean Nuclear Energy
Nov 3, 2014: AREVA Inc. and Caterpillar Join Forces to Offer Emergency Response Solutions to Nuclear Energy Industry
Nov 5, 2014: Westinghouse CEO Expects Nuclear Power To Grow In Energy-Hungry U.S.
Nov 5, 2014: B&W Announces Intention to Spin-off Its Power Generation Business
Nov 4, 2014: Why Housing Is A Key Indicator For The Power Utility Industry
Nov 5, 2014: NRG Energy Profit Grows But Outlook Cut
Nov 4, 2014: Law Research Article Paints Dismal Picture For Litigation Against Greenhouse Gas Emitters
Nov 3, 2014: Will NRG Energy’s (NRG) Earnings Disappoint This Season?
Nov 4, 2014: NRG Energy Assigned BB- Credit Rating
Nov 3, 2014: Constellation Completes Acquisition of Integrys Energy Services
Oct 31, 2014: EPA Approves GHG Permitting Program in Texas
Oct 29, 2014: Xcel: Scams Against Texas, NM Customers Rising In Fall Months
Oct 30, 2014: Xcel Energy’s Results Fall Short Because Of Mild Weather
Oct 30, 2014: Exelon Profit Rises On Higher Utility Sales
Oct 31, 2014: Entergy Declares Dividend
Oct 31, 2014: Energy Department Releases Federal Agency Climate Plans on Fifth Anniversary of President Obama’s Sustainability Initiative
Nov 2, 2014: Lignite Energy Council Staffer Appointed As National Advisor On Coal Power
Nov 2, 2014: Coal Ash Regulations Closer To Reality
Oct 31, 2014: Distributed Energy In The US
Power Grid Security
Nov 6, 2014: ‘Trojan Horse’ Bug Lurking in Vital US Computers Since 2011
Nov 6, 2014: Men With Drones Arrested Near French Nuclear Plant
Oct 31, 2014: Secret Meetings Tackle Back-To-Back Energy-Sector Cyberthreats
Nov 1, 2014: French Nuclear Plants In New Mystery Drone Overflights: Source
Renewable Power
Nov 6, 2014: NextEra Signs Contracts For 445MW Of New Wind And Solar Projects
Nov 6, 2014: Siemens, Microsoft and FuelCell Energy Come Together to Build Zero-Carbon Cheyenne, WY Data Center
Nov 6, 2014: Synthetic fish measures wild ride through dams; to help design fish-friendly hydropower facilities
Nov 6, 2014: The Newberry Volcano Enhanced Geothermal Project: The Most Important Power Plant In The Country?
Nov 6, 2014: Solar Energy Costs Fall 14% Despite Stable Wholesale Solar Prices
Nov 4, 2014: Renewable Energy vs Natural Gas – How The Costs Stack Up
Nov 5, 2014: Solar Power Express Expert Breakdown on Buying VS Leasing Solar Panels
Nov 4, 2014: Amazon’s New Campus To Be Heated With Recycled Energy
Nov 5, 2014: Distributed Generation Is Growing
Nov 5, 2014: California Turns Focus To Energy Storage To Meet Renewable Targets
Nov 3, 2014: Is a (Mostly) Solar World Coming?
Oct 30, 2014: Incredible Breakthrough Could Boost Solar Power Efficiency to Almost 100%
Nov 2, 2014: Nanoparticle-Based Material Turns Up The Heat On Concentrated Solar Power
Nov 3, 2014: NRG Energy Celebrates Solar Developments In Virgin Islands
Nov 3, 2014: From Smart Grids To Flying Robots, Engineer Finds Many Applications For Theory
Nov 1, 2014: Fedex Hub Delivers Largest Rooftop Solar System In North Texas
Oct 31, 2014: Clean Energy Project At UTSA Wins Federal Support
Oct 21, 2014: Walmart Is Killing the Rest of Corporate America in Solar Power Adoption
Nov 3, 2014: DTE Energy’s LED Saturday is Nov. 8 at The Home Depot
Nov 3, 2014: New Solar Material: The “Blackhole Of Sunlight”
Oct 30, 2014: Texas County Approves New Solar Site, Eyes Golf Fees
Nov 1, 2014: New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent of Captured Light into Heat
Outside Texas
Nov 6, 2014: PJM and NYISO Implement Coordinated Transaction Scheduling
Nov 5, 2014: Pennsylvania Default Service Auction Sees Higher Risk Premium, Driven by PJM Volatility, Uncertainty
Nov 4, 2014: Investing in a Power Grid to Connect Communities across Central America
Nov 4, 2014: FERC Issues Formal Notice of Investigation into New England Generator Over Capacity Payments, Make-Whole Payments
Nov 3, 2014: Fraunhofer Develops Tiny, Affordable Devices That Generate Their Own Energy
Nov 3, 2014: After Seven Years, FERC Eliminates “Windfall” Adder Payments to Mitigated Units
Nov 3, 2014: FERC to Hold Technical Conference on PJM FTR Rules Applying to Up-to Congestion Transactions and INCs/DECs
Oct 31, 2014: PSEG Confirms FERC Investigating Its Cost-Based Bids
Other News
Nov 7, 2014: Founder Of Lobby Firm McBee Strategic To Join NRG Energy
Nov 6, 2014: TXU Energy-Bidgely Partnership Elevates Customers’ Ability to Track Consumption and Manage Spending
Nov 6. 2014: CenterPoint Energy Announces Executive Promotions
Nov 6, 2014: Texas REP Introduces Critical Peak Rebate Program
Nov 5, 2014: Renewable Power Direct Files Application for Texas REP Certification
Nov 5, 2014: Acacia Energy Files Application to Change Name to New Era Energy Services
Nov 5, 2014: Optim Energy Twin Oaks Files Application to Relinquish Texas PGC Registration
Nov 5, 2014: Texas REP Introduces Rewards Program
Nov 5, 2014: World Energy Solutions Acquired By Energy Intelligence Software Provider
Nov 4, 2014: Power Resources NOV and Settlement Agreement Filed at PUCT
Nov 4, 2014: Complaint Against Frontier RV Park for Overcharging Filed at PUCT
Nov 4, 2014: Rattlesnake Wind I Files for Texas PGC Registration
Nov 4, 2014: River Oaks Energy Files to Register as Texas Aggregator
Nov 4, 2014: Denton Fracking Ban Passed In Landslide
Nov 4, 2013: New Texas Retail Provider Receives REP Certificate
Nov 3, 2013: Texas REP Offering 100% Green Free Saturdays Product
Oct 31, 2014: Mexico Economic Overhaul Could Energize Rio Grande Valley
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For the Week of 10/24/14 — 10/31/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Oct 29, 2014: Energy Future Tells Judge Lender Fight Cost $6,000 An Hour
Oct 27, 2014: Bankruptcy Judge To Rule On Energy Future’s Oncor Unit Sale Nov. 3
Generation Adequacy
Oct 30, 2014: ERCOT Says CPS Energy Can Mothball 1,074-MW Natural Gas-Fired Unit
Oct 30, 2014: Renewable Power Direct, Tenaska Power Services Sign Service Agreement
Oct 30, 2014: Gemma Announces Completion of Biomass Power Plant In Texas
Oct 30, 2014: Equal Earth Expands Footprint, Grows Portfolio of Renewable Energy Assets Including Texas
Oct 30, 2014: Fusion Power: Goodbye Fossil Fuels?
Oct 29, 2014: ERCOT Finally Values Wind Peak Capacity Using Actual Data
Oct 29, 2014: Texas Regulators To Approve 138-KV Transmission Line
Oct 27, 2014: Optim Energy To Market Two Gas-Fired Power Plants In Texas
Oct 27, 2014: Hey EPA: “The California Model” Doesn’t Work, and We’ll Need More Electricity
Oct 24, 2014: DLA Energy Issues RFP to Secure up to 55 Megawatts of Renewable Energy for Navy Installations in Texas
Oct 21, 2014: Energy Storage Is Preventing Blackouts But Its High Cost Is Impeding Progress
Oct 24, 2014: Schooling Demand Response in Texas Academia
Headlines
Oct 30, 2014: Texas Electric Co-Op Stops Sending Delinquent Notices, Customers Upset
Oct 30, 2014: UN Atomic Energy Director Visits A&M
Oct 30, 2014: NRG Energy Earns Buy Rating from Deutsche Bank
Oct 30, 2014: Environmental Groups, Attorneys General Again Sue To Block Nuclear Plant Relicensing
Oct 30, 2014: Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
Oct 30, 2014: The Obama Clean Power Plan Nuclear Gap
Oct 29, 2014: CenterPoint Energy Names Three Executive Positions
Oct 29, 2014: Entergy – Keeping the Lights on in Huntsville, 2nd Reliability Project Begins
Oct 29, 2014: Entergy Begins 2nd Project to Keep Texas Dayton’s Power Reliable
Oct 29, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) Ex-Dividend Date Scheduled for October 30, 2014
Oct 29, 2014: Breathing Cleaner Air to Cost Americans on Utility Bills
Oct 29, 2014: EPA Emissions Regulations Would Cause Reliability Problems
Oct 29, 2014: How The EPA May Change The Clean Power Plan
Oct 29, 2014: NRC Resumes License Renewals For U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Oct 28, 2014: Oncor Power Returns For Counties Along SH 95
Oct 27, 2014: Copper Thief Sentenced to 10 Years in Texas Utility Cases
Oct 27, 2014: Energy CEOs Bullish On Growth, Expect Greatest Profits In 2016 And 2017: KPMG Study
Oct 27, 2014: Dynegy Closes $5.1 Billion Senior Unsecured Notes Offerings
Oct 20, 2014: Renewables Not Shale Biggest Driver In US Emissions Cuts, Study Finds
Oct 27, 2014: New Pain For Seniors Resulting From EPA ‘Climate Crusade,’ Says AMAC
Oct 24, 2014: Austin Includes Energy Price Hedge Value In Solar Tariff
Oct 24, 2014: Prentis: Has Privatization Failed Texas Utility Customers?
Oct 22, 2014: Xcel Energy Nixes Fuel Cost Surcharge For Texas Customers As Fuel Prices Drop
Oct 24, 2014: Lubbock City Council Appoints New Members to Electric Utility Board
Oct 23, 2014: AEP Reports 2014 Third-Quarter Earnings; Narrows 2014 Operating Earnings Guidance Range
Oct 24, 2014: Former EPA Leader: ‘Irresponsible’ For US To Halt Nuclear Power
Oct 22, 2014: Clean Air Rules Must be Achievable, Affordable
Oct 23, 2014: Benefits of Clean Power Plan Are Measureable, Drop for Drop
Oct 23, 2014: Lower Electricity-Related CO2 Emissions Reflect Lower Carbon Intensity and Electricity Use
Renewable Power
Oct 30, 2014: For Willie Nelson, A Biodiesel Dream Deferred
Oct 30, 2014: Enbridge: Wind Closing Gas Gap
Oct 30, 2014: “The End Is Near” For Incandescent Light Bulbs
Oct 30, 2014: U.S. DOE Launches $1 Million H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition for Small-Scale Hydrogen Refueling System
Oct 29, 2014: He Ripped Their House Off the Grid and He’s No Hippie: Tales of the Solar Middle Class
Oct 29, 2014: Wind Power Composite Material Consumption To Hit $4.3B By 2018
Oct 29, 2014: Argonne Battery Roadshow Aims To Connect With Industry
Oct 29, 2014: Cigarette Plant Becomes Factory For Solar And Wind Farm Batteries
Oct 29, 2014: The US City That Has Decided To Go 100% Renewable
Oct 29, 2014: Jimmy Johnson to Host Upcoming “Champions of Industry” Segment on Solar Power Innovations
Oct 29, 2014: Turns Out Solar Power Can Be Contagious
Oct 29, 2014: Eaton to Assist MGM with Rooftop Solar Project
Oct 28, 2014: SolarCity’s New ZS Beam Solar Carport System Makes it Faster, Cheaper, Easier and Safer to Install Solar in Parking Lots
Oct 28, 2014: Wells Fargo Launches $10 million Cleantech Innovation Incubator
Oct 28, 2014: NREL and Army Validate Energy Savings for Net Zero Energy Installations
Oct 28, 2014: How Wind Energy Could Reach 20% Penetration By 2030
Oct 28, 2014: It May be Lights Out for the Wind Energy Come the Midterms
Oct 28, 2014: SolarReserve Acquires Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Concentrating Solar Power Business
Oct 21, 2014: Biofuels Group Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Across 3 States
Oct 27, 2014: Is Solar Mainstream Yet?
Oct 27, 2014: Solar Industry Launches Lobbying Effort as Tax Deadline Prompts Canceled Projects
Oct 27, 2014: Lucintel Estimates Composite Materials Consumption In The Wind Energy Industry To Grow To $4 Billion By 2019
Oct 26, 2014: DOE Announces $53M Investment To Cut Cost Of Solar Power
Oct 23, 2014: BYD Unveils World’s Largest Battery-Electric Vehicle in Houston
Oct 25, 2014: Investing In Solar Panels Is Paying Off For Two Texas Rowlett Residents
Oct 22, 2014: U.S. Solar Is 59 Percent Cheaper Than We Thought It Would Be Back In 2010
Oct 22, 2014: Wal-Mart Cheered, Jeered for Solar Power Efforts
Oct 25, 2014: In The Near Future, Solar Will Be Spray Painted On Everything
Oct 24, 2014: LCOE of Utility-Scale Solar Power Getting Really Competitive
Oct 26, 2014: Carmakers Prepare To Shift To Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Oct 23, 2014: Renewable Energy and On-Site Utilities Part of Slow Sea Change in Energy Industry
Oct 26, 2014: Wisconsin Utilities Seek Rate Changes in Rooftop Solar Battle
Emerging Technologies
Oct 23, 2014: The Next Era in Power Electronics
Outside Texas
Oct 30, 2014: Clean Energy Group Releases Paper on How to Finance Resilient Power and Reduce Risks from Power Outages
Oct 29, 2014: NRG Energy Celebrates the Spanish Town Estate Solar Development in U.S. Virgin Islands
Oct 29, 2014: Lower Level Of Competition In Maryland Procurement Is Attributed To PJM Capacity Market Uncertainty
Oct 28, 2014: GE Hitachi Awarded Nearly $300 Million in Outage Services and Fuel Contracts by Exelon Generation
Oct 28, 2014: Poll: Americans See Nuclear Energy as Key to Limit Carbon Emissions
Oct 28, 2014: U.S. Department of Energy Grant Will Further Study Of Safer, More Efficient Nuclear Reactors
Oct 26, 2014: FERC Removes 10% Adder from Generators’ Make-Whole Payments
Other News
Oct 31, 2014: Centrica Reports Departure Date of Int’l Downstream Leader, New Reporting Structure for Direct Energy CEO
Oct 30, 2014: EIF Channelview Cogeneration Files Change in Ownership/Control
Oct 30, 2014: Ownership of Retail Provider Disputed at Texas PUC
Oct 30, 2014: Great American Power to Acquire Retail Supplier
Oct 29, 2014: Hyundai Announces New Six-Speed Transmission For Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Oct 28, 2014: New Texas REP Launching Prepaid Service
Oct 28, 2014: Spark Energy Acquires Book of Connecticut Customers
Oct 28, 2014: Infuse Energy Filed to Amend Texas REP Certificate
Oct 28, 2014: Easily Manage Your ISO Invoices With ReD’s iManager
Oct 27, 2014: Palo Duro Wind Energy Applies for REC Certification
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For the Week of 10/17/14 — 10/24/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Oct 23, 2014: Energy Future Says Oncor Bids May Be Higher Than Expected
Oct 23, 2014: Oncor Plans Increased Maintenance Spending In 2015
Oct 23, 2014: Berkshire’s Betting Big On Energy, But Likely Not on Oncor
Oct 21, 2014: Energy Future Judge Delays Oncor Bids to Hear Creditors
Oct 17, 2014: Creditors Take Aim At Energy Future Plan For Sale Of Oncor Stake
Oct 18, 2014: Oncor Takes Heat From Regulators Over Storm Preparations
Generation Adequacy
Oct 22, 2014: Texas Spot Power Surges as Demand Tops Forecast
Oct 22, 2014: Texas Grid Operator Bracing For Loss Of Power To Mexico
Oct 21, 2014: The Future of Energy Is Here. And It Looks a Lot Like the Past
Oct 16, 2014: Lawyers To Debate $590 Million Houston Transmission Project
Oct 14, 2014: CPS Provides Customers With Four Different Energy Options
Headlines
Oct 22, 2014: Nuclear-Reactor Ship Headed To Galveston To Be Scrapped
Oct 22, 2014: CenterPoint Energy Declares $0.2375 Quarterly Dividend
Oct 22, 2014: $25 Million Funding Available for Generators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems
Oct 22, 2014: Samsung and Earth Networks Partner to Boost Energy Efficiency via WeatherBug Home in Texas
Oct 22, 2014: EIA Commends EPA Rule to Limit Ozone Depleting Greenhouse Gas
Oct 22, 2014: Urban Air Initiative Calls New EPA Emission Models Flawed
Oct 21, 2014: Cities Say Centerpoint Revenue Exceeds ‘Reasonable’ Designation
Oct 21, 2014: How Much ‘Excess Revenue’ Did CenterPoint Energy Make?
Oct 21, 2014: AEP Increases Quarterly Dividend To 53 Cents A Share
Oct 21, 2014: Exelon Corporation Declares Dividend
Oct 17, 2014: Entergy Service Project Scheduled For Huntsville Area
Oct 18, 2014: In Texas, Tax Credits for Energy Industry Are Under Scrutiny
Oct 17, 2014: NextEra Energy Board Declares Quarterly Dividend
Oct 17, 2014: Texas, NM Regulators Detail Concerns With EPA Power Plant Rules
Oct 16, 2014: New Study Confirms Major Economic Costs from EPA’s Proposed Carbon Regulations
Oct 17, 2014: Study: EPA’s Power Plan Could Total At Least $366 Billion
Oct 16, 2014: NRECA Comments Oppose EPA Proposal for Modified and Reconstructed Power Plants
Power Grid Security
Oct 21, 2014: Cybersecurity Labor Shortage Hurting Battle Against Internet Attacks
Oct 15. 2014: NERC Convenes Electricity Sector Leaders at Grid Security Conference in Texas
Renewable Power
Oct 22, 2014: NRG Energy Installs Vegas Array
Oct 21, 2014: Will Solar and Wind Generate Revolution or Evolution?
Oct 19, 2014: How Renewable Energy Could Leave You Mired in Blackouts
Oct 22, 2014: Energy Department Announces $53 Million to Drive Innovation, Cut Cost of Solar Power
Oct 22, 2014: Big Utilities Can’t Beat Solar, So They’re Jumping In
Oct 22, 2014: Renewables Will Go Nowhere Without Better Batteries
Oct 22, 2014: So What Direction Should Solar Panels Face?
Oct 22, 2014: US Wind Power Breezes Past 2013 Installation Mark By September
Oct 22, 2014: US-China Solar Pact Holds Big Potential: Analyst
Oct 22, 2014: By 2018, Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installation Market to Surpass US$145.9 billion: Transparency Market Research
Oct 22, 2014: SEIA Launches Campaign To Extend Solar ITC, Emphasizing Tax Fairness
Oct 22, 2014: First Nationwide Solar Bulk Purchase Program Launched
Oct 22, 2014: False Pass Forges Ahead With Tidal Power
Oct 22, 2014: MGM Resorts International and NRG Energy Celebrate the Installation of the World’s Largest Convention Center Solar Array
Oct 21, 2014: Big Utilities Pushing Into Booming Home Solar Market
Oct 21, 2014: What Happens in Vegas? Solar Power International, That’s What
Oct 21, 2014: Blackstone Teams with Former Solops Management Team to Fund Utility Scale Renewables Development Company
Oct 21, 2014: Solar Energy Prices See Double-Digit Declines In 2013; Trend Expected To Continue
Oct 20, 2014: Geothermal Power Industry Lost Steam But May Be Poised For Comeback
Oct 20, 2014: Galenfeha Completes Successful Testing Of Solar Power Station
Oct 17, 2014: Biofuel Companies Look Beyond the Gas Tank
Oct 17, 2014: Xcel Energy : Minneapolis, Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy form First-of-its-kind Clean Energy Partnership
Emerging Technologies
Oct 15, 2014: New Generator Powered Solely By Heat, Not Fuel
Oct 16, 2014: Texas Plant to Capture, and Then Reuse, Carbon
Outside Texas
Oct 24, 2014: PJM, IMM Estimate Capacity Performance Transition Costs To Be Up To $4 Billion Annually
Oct 22, 2014: PUC Commish: Retail Suppliers’ Businesses “In Jeopardy” In Pennsylvania From Flawed Wholesale Market Design
Oct 22, 2014: PJM Grid 20/20 Focuses On Resource Diversity, Explores The Impacts Of Shifting Trends In Resource Types
Oct 16, 2014: Three Reasons Solar Will Outshine Fossil Fuels In Mexico
Oct 20, 2014: Court Stays Decision on Order 745 (Demand Response)
Oct 20, 2014: California ISO: Challenging 2014 Summer but Reliability Held Firm
Oct 19, 2014: Power Plants Seek to Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors for Decades
Other News
Oct 23, 2014: Enhanced Forecasting Methods Added to Retail Energy Desk – ReD
Oct 21, 2014: Devonshire Energy Relinquishing PUCT REP Certificate
Oct 21, 2014: Palo Duro Wind Energy Files for PUCT PGC Registration
Oct 21, 2014: Broker Names Former NRG/Reliant Director As Vice President of Business Development
Oct 21, 2014: Energy Shopping/Comparison Website Names Former Expedia CEO to Board of Directors
Oct 21, 2014: Finalists Announced For 2015 “Green Car Of The Year”
Oct 21, 2014: AEP Energy dba Bluestar Energy Solutions Relinquishing REP Certificate
Oct 20, 2014: CEO Departs Retail Supplier, New COO Named
Oct 15, 2014: New Tesla Model S May Have Us Rethink Electric Cars
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For the Week of 10/10/14 — 10/17/14
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Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Oct 15, 2014: Federal Judge Approves $20 Million In Bonuses For EFH Executives
Oct 15, 2014: Judge Lets Bankrupt Energy Future Issue Bonuses
Oct 15, 2014: Judge Oks EFH Bonuses
Oct 10, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Attack Oncor Bidding Rules
Oct 10, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Is Fighting to Give Executives at Least $20 Million in Bonuses
Generation Adequacy
Oct 16, 2014: Coal Supply Cuts Signal Challenging Winter for Utilities
Oct 16, 2014: Equal Earth to Acquire 20 MW Wind Farm in West Texas
Oct 15, 2014: CPS Signs PPA With Coal Fueled IGCC Project In Texas
Oct 15, 2014: Anti-Wind Push in Texas Makes Strange Bedfellows
Oct 15, 2014: NET Power Announces Launch Of Breakthrough Clean Power Project
Oct 14, 2014: Exelon, CB&I And 8 Rivers Proceed With Texas Clean Energy Demonstration Power Plant
Oct 15, 2014: Texas Staff Recommend REP’s Letter of Credit Be Drawn Upon to Pay TDU Debts
Oct 15, 2014: APPA: Only 6% of New Capacity in 2013 Built in Capacity Markets
Oct 13, 2014: Rolling Blackouts Highlight Troubles With Electric Grid In Rio Grande Valley
Oct 13, 2014: Valley Not Generating Enough Energy
Oct 13, 2014: CPS Energy Sources Shift, May Have Impact On Logistics
Oct 10, 2014: Report: Amount Of Coal Power To Shut Down From EPA Rules Doubles Since 2011
Headlines
Oct 16, 2014: Austin Plan for Renewable Energy at Odds With Utility
Oct 16, 2014: Sounding Off: Northwest Dallas County Readers Grade Oncor’s Reaction To Recent Storms
Oct 16, 2014: San Bernard EC Hailed For Solving Grid Interoperability Issues
Oct 16, 2014: NRG Energy Receives “BB-” Credit Rating (NRG)
Oct 16, 2014: Texas Is Terrible at Energy Efficiency, According to Study
Oct 15, 2014: Meters, Billing Prompt Rise In Texas Electric Customer Gripes
Oct 15, 2014: Sheriff: Telephone Scam Targets Texas Electric Cooperative Customers
Oct 15, 2014: Copper Thieves Targeted Communication Towers In 14 Texas Counties
Oct 15, 2014: Austin Community College Receives EPA Grant for Solar Water-Disinfection Project
Oct 15, 2014: EPRI, Utilities, Automakers to Demonstrate Technology Enabling Plug-in Electric Vehicles to Support Grid Reliability
Oct 15, 2014: Software Enables Plug-In Electric Vehicles To Support Grid Reliability
Oct 15, 2014: EPA Clean Power Plan: We Must Do Better, We Can Do Better
Oct 14, 2014: Texas United Coop Returns $4.7 Million To Membership?
Oct 14, 2014: Meeting To Discuss Proposed Transmission Line Routes In Collin, Denton Counties
Oct 14, 2014: Report: Texas Utility Regulators See Rise in Complaints
Oct 14, 2014: Dynalab Gets Boost Making Parts For New Electricity Meters
Oct 14, 2014: Scranton Times Tribune: Make ‘bridge’ fulfill role
Oct 14, 2014: NRG Energy (NRG) Shares Enter Oversold Territory
Oct 14, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. to Present Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results on November 5, 2014
Oct 14, 2014: Dynegy Closes Common Stock and Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock Offerings
Oct 13, 2014: Sharyland Proposal To Move LP&L Energy Surprises City And Utility Officials
Oct 13, 2014: Founded By Hunts, Sharyland Utilities Now Eyeing Lubbock Power & Light Business
Oct 13, 2014: Half Renewables ‘Ideal’: Austin Energy
Oct 13, 2014: Advanced Manufacturing Boosts S.A.
Oct 13, 2014: Innovari Announces Acquisition Of Demand Response Provider NetPeak Energy
Oct 13, 2014: Austin Energy Company Innovari Leaving Town
Oct 13, 2014: Do Politicians Care About Nuclear Matters?
Oct 13, 2014: US Utility Coal Stockpiles End Week At 114 Million St, Up 1%: Bentek
Oct 13, 2014: Exelon’s Position In The Power Industry
Oct 14, 2014: NRG Energy (NRG) Declares $0.56 Quarterly Dividend; 7.7% Yield
Oct 13, 2014: Small-Business Success Story: A New Career in Solar Power
Oct 13, 2014: Independent Power and Renewable Energy Equities at a Glance — NRG Energy, Dynegy, Calpine, Atlantic Power, and AES Corp
Oct 10, 2014: How Can Houston’s Office Buildings Be More Energy Efficient?
Oct 10, 2014: Dynegy Prices $5.1 Billion Unsecured Notes Offerings
Oct 10, 2014: Investor’s Business Daily: EPA’s Rules On CO2 Emissions Will Kill The Economy
Oct 10, 2014: Southwest Power Pool Says EPA Power Plant Plan Requires Time
Power Grid Security
Oct 13, 2014: Smart Cities Must Protect Utilities from Cyber-Attacks
Oct 10, 2014: Cybersecurity And The Smarter Grid
Renewable Power
Oct 16, 2014: Solar Businesses Ready to Roll with Clean Power
Oct 15, 2014: America’s Leading Companies Continue to Invest Big in Solar Energy
Oct 15, 2014: Yahoo Signs Long Term Power Purchase Agreement with OwnEnergy
Oct 15, 2014: BJ’s Wholesale Club Saves with Energy Storage from Direct Energy and SolarCity
Oct 15, 2014: New E Source Report Reveals Which Utilities Are Reaching Their Energy-Efficiency Goals
Oct 15, 2014: DOE Releases New Study About Offshore Wind Energy
Oct 15, 2014: Solar Power Is Casting A Bigger Shadow
Oct 14, 2014: Frito-Lay Celebrates New CNG Fueling Station In Southwest Dallas
Oct 14, 2014: Comparing Apples with Oranges
Oct 14, 2014: As US Renewable Energy Industry Changes, Top-Ranked EPC Firms Will Need to Adapt to Keep Pace
Oct 14, 2014: SolarCity’s New Mypower Plan Makes Cheap Solar Power More Accessible Than Ever
Oct 14 2014: Survey: Utilities Could Do a Much Better Job at Streamlining Solar Interconnection
Oct 13, 2014: 10 Top States with The Highest Clean Energy Job Market
Oct 13, 2014: Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Through Nanoimprint Lithography
Oct 13, 2014: Renewables Killing Germany Energy Industry
Oct 13, 2014: Green Building Initiative Hails New US Department of Energy Rule
Oct 13, 2014: E.ON Achieves More Output from 469 Wind Turbines through GE’s Wind PowerUp Services
Oct 13 2014: Market Outlook Report on Wind Power in the US
Oct 9, 2014: Renewables Thrive In Texas Despite Regulatory Hurdles
Oct 9, 2014: Solarcity And Honda’s Partnership Is Committed To Creating Local Jobs And Helping Address Environmental Problems.
Oct 10, 2014: Wind Power Becoming More Competitive
Oct 10, 2014: Offshore Wind Energy In U.S. At Tipping Point Heading Into 2015
Oct 10 2014: Nuclear Power: The “Other” Renewable Energy
Emerging Technologies
Oct 16, 2014: Scientists Are Bashing Lockheed Martin’s Nuclear Fusion ‘Breakthrough’
Oct 15, 2014: Lockheed Martin Developing Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Oct 15, 2014: Neah Power Partners With Silent Falcon to Integrate Fuel Cells Into Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
Outside Texas
Oct 17, 2014: FERC Conducting Two Investigations into Generator Offer Behavior During Polar Vortex
Oct 15, 2014: U.S. Senators Urge FERC to “Fundamentally Reexamine” Whether ISO-NE’s Capacity Market Is Effective
Oct 14, 2014: Christi Craddick: Mexico’s Energy Reform A Game Changer
Oct 14, 2014: LED Lights Are A ‘Transformative Technology’ In The Developing World
Oct 14, 2014: N.Y. to Examine Whether California-Style Bilateral Contracts Are a Feasible Alternative to Current Capacity Market
Oct 14, 2014: NRG eVgo Completes Largest Corporate Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Southern California
Oct 10, 2014: Duke Energy Progress Files With FERC For Approval To Purchase NCEMPA Generation Assets
Other News
Oct 16, 2014: EDF Trading NOV and Settlement Filed at PUCT
Oct 15, 2014: Oncor Notice of Violation and Settlement Filed
Oct 15, 2014: New REP Entrants to Sharyland Continues With Nearly Two Dozen Recently Tested Or In Queue
Oct 14, 2014: Honeywell And Constellation Deliver Value And Comfort With Smart Wi-Fi Thermostats
Oct 14, 2014: Texas REPs Offering Smart Thermostat for Customer Referrals
Oct 13, 2014: Texas Power to Choose Site Sees 72% Increase in Unique Visitors
For the Week of 10/3/14 — 10/10/14
Oct 9, 2014: PUCT Officials Launch Investigation Into Rolling Blackouts in the Valley
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Oct 6, 2014: Iberdrola, a Possible Suitor of Oncor, hires JPMorgan for asset sales to fund U.S. buy
Generation Adequacy
Oct 9, 2014: PUCT Officials Launch Investigation Into Rolling Blackouts in the Valley
Oct 9, 2014: EDF Wins BOP Texas 200 MW Wind Deal
Oct 9, 2014: CPS Energy Reconsiders Plan to Purchase Power from Texas IGCC Project
Oct 8, 2014: ERCOT Conducts Rolling Blackouts In South Texas
Oct 8, 2014: Valley Suffers Power Outage
Oct 8, 2014: Texas Panhandle: Wind Farm Expansion Continues To The Tune Of $900 Million
Oct 8, 2014: Texas Comptroller Attacks Wind Power, And Industry Fights Back
Oct 7, 2014: City Of Lufkin Announces New $700M Electrical Plant
Oct 7, 2014: GE Announces Largest N. American Project For 60Hz J920 Flextra Gas Engine Technology
Oct 8, 2014: ERCOT Receives Notification of Suspension of Operations
Oct 7, 2014: Report: The Evolution of Demand Response in the PJM Wholesale Market
Oct 6, 2014: Capital Dynamics Acquires 300 MW Texas Wind Farm
Oct 6, 2014: ACCIONA Windpower Starts the Supply of Wind Turbines for a 300 MW Wind Project in Texas
Oct 6, 2014: FERC Affirms Golden Spread Switchable Generation Won’t Make ERCOT Subject to FERC Jurisdiction
Oct 3, 2014: Firms Plan West Texas Wind Farms Worth $900M
Oct 6, 2014: ERCOT Sets Date for Implementing Third Party Access to Smart Meter Texas
Oct 6, 2014: Texas REPs: ERCOT Should Assume Ownership of Smart Meter Texas Portal
Oct 6, 2014: Is It Fair to Make All ERCOT Load Pay for Smart Meter Texas Portal Via Admin Fee?
Headlines
Oct 9, 2014: PEC To Lower Power Delivery Rates In December
Oct 9, 2014: Ft. Worth Picked As HQ For Chinese Wind Turbine Farm
Oct 9, 2014: Energy Storage Now Emerging in the United States
Oct 9, 2014: Texas City Also Sending Letter To EPA
Oct 9, 2014: NextEra Energy’s 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report details clean energy leadership
Oct 9, 2014: Utilities Burning Gas to Preserve Coal Supplies
Oct 9, 2014: US Utilities Say Increased Coal Deliveries Help, But More Needed
Oct 8, 2014: NRG Teams Up With Green Charge Networks to Offer Battery Storage With EV Chargers
Oct 8, 2014: The Clever Marketing Strategy of NRG
Oct 8, 2014: Lower Winter Heating Costs Ahead
Oct 8, 2014: IEEE Joint Task Force on Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) Submits Final Report to the U.S. Department of Energy
Oct 8, 2014: EPA’s Clean Energy Standards Could Actually Lower Electricity Bills
Oct 8, 2014: Comverge and Constellation Agree to Combine Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Businesses to Form New Company
Oct 7, 2014: Xcel Energy Powers Up Texas Segment Of TUCO-Woodward Electric Transmission Line
Oct 7, 2014: Judge Dismisses Suit Against EPA Climate Rule
Oct 7, 2014: Energy Efficiency Advocates Optimistic About Texas PACE Program
Oct 7, 2014: Dynegy Launches Notes Offerings
Oct 6, 2014: CPS Energy Strikes New Deal To Buy Power From ‘Clean Coal’
Oct 7, 2014: Texas Staff: “Onus” on REPs to Communicate Information to End-Use Customers, Including TDU Rate Changes
Oct 6, 2014: Another Round Of Storms Prolongs North Texas Outages
Oct 6, 2014: Dynegy Launches Common Stock and Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock Offerings
Oct 6, 2014: IEEE Joint Task Force on Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) Submits Final Report to the U.S. Department of Energy
Oct 3, 2014: U.S. EPA Finalizes Permit For $1 Bln Texas Natural Gas-To-Gasoline Facility
Oct 6, 2014: Texas Staff Recommend Settlement Data Dispute Between REP, TDU Be Set for Hearing
Oct 3, 2014: Texas Comptroller’s New Report Should Not Play Favorites
Oct 3, 2014: ‘The Energy World Is On The Brink Of A Transformation’ NRG Energy Chief Tells Princeton Students
Oct 3, 2014: CPS Is Curbing Carbon Footprint
Oct 3, 2014: Fitch Maintains Berkshire Hathaway Energy on Negative Watch & Upgrades PPW; PPW Outlook to Positive
Oct 6, 2014: A Decade After Welcoming Wind, States Reconsider
Power Grid Security
Oct 9, 2014: Cybersecurity: The Electric Grid Is Aware and Prepared
Renewable Power
Oct 9, 2014: SolarCity’s CTO Peter Rive on Solar Power Plus Energy Storage
Oct 9, 2014: Mission Solar Energy: New PV star rising over Texas
Oct 9, 2014: Offshore Wind Advancements Take the Stage at AWEA Conference
Oct 9, 2014: Solar Power Portal Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Oct 8, 2014: SolarCity Joins Rivals in Lending Solar Panels to Clients
Oct 8, 2014: Siemens Chief Says US Should Reinstate Subsidy For Wind Power
Oct 8, 2014: These 3 Wind Power Companies Might Take Advantage Of IRS Subsidies
Oct 8, 2014: Hydropower Financing Gets a Boost from the US Department of Energy
Oct 8, 2014: A Promising Step Toward Round-The-Clock Solar Power
Oct 8, 2014: Is America’s Renewable Energy Revolution About to Fall Off a Cliff?
Oct 8, 2014: The Transition to Renewable Energy Is Difficult But Feasible
Oct 8, 2014: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Selects Value Recovery Holding, LLC, as Renewable Energy Prime Contractor
Oct 8, 2014: For Crop-Dusters, Towers Pose a Hidden and Growing Danger
Oct 7, 2014: LED Lights Shine In Nobel Prize; Now How About Your Home?
Oct 7, 2014: Solar Debt Financing on Pace to Reach Highest Since 2010
Oct 7, 2014: Recent Trends In The Solar Industry
Oct 6, 2014: Expect Patent Disputes to Accelerate as Clean Energy Expands
Oct 6, 2014: Solar Socket Parity Has Shifted Solar Forecasts
Oct 6, 2014: Offshore Winds Soon to Power Cape Cod: Part 2
Oct 3, 2014: AREVA And Schneider Electric Team Up On Energy Storage
Oct 4, 2014: Ohio State Solar Battery Can Be Recharged
Oct 3, 2014: Why The Oil Majors Are Backing Away From Renewable Energy
Outside Texas
Oct 9, 2014: CPUC head Michael Peevey to step down after PG&E uproar
Oct 10, 2014: FERC Intends to Revoke Market-Based Rate Authority of Retail Suppliers for Alleged Failure to File Reports
Oct 8, 2014: Identities of Buyers of Hudson Energy Solar Disclosed
Oct 8, 2014: Federal prosecutors to investigate PG&E’s relationship with CPUC
Oct 8, 2014: E.U. Approves Plan for New Nuclear Power Station in Britain
Oct 8, 2014: Blame Dysfunctional Markets For Our Economic Malaise
Oct 7, 2014: EV Week in San Francisco Highlights the Revolutionary EV ARC™ Solar Powered EV Charger
Oct 7, 2014: 5 Days In Kentucky: The War On Coal
Oct 6, 2014: Linde to build and operate its first retail hydrogen fueling station in the U.S.
Oct 6, 2014: AEP: 11 Years Have “Proven” PJM Capacity Market Doesn’t Get Power Plants Built
Oct 3, 2014: Engineer Exalts Future Of Nuclear Energy
Other News
Oct 8, 2014: Texas Energy Consultants Register as Aggregator
Oct 9, 2014: Reliant Brings Goal Zero Portable Solar Innovation to Electricity Consumers
Oct 10, 2014: Green Mountain Energy Company Intends to Offer Prepaid Product
Oct 9, 2014: Jade Energy Files for Texas REP Amendment
Oct 9, 2014: Veteran of Texas Retail Market Since Launch Joins Start-up REP as CEO
Oct 9, 2014: Another Texas REP Pilots Critical Peak Rebate Program
Oct 7, 2014: Stephens Ranch Wind Energy Applies for REC Generator Certification
Oct 8, 2014: Retail Supplier Names Market Veteran to C-Level Position
Oct 7, 2014: Texas REP Offering “WaterSaver” Electric Plan
Oct 7, 2014: Texas REP Hires Telecom, Data/Software Veteran
Oct 6, 2014: Texas Rep Sponsoring Posts on Mommny Blogs to Promote Smart Energy Offers, Sweepstakes
Oct 6, 2014: For (Energy) History Buffs
Oct 5, 2014: Oncor: 10,000 Customers Still Without Power Sunday Night, Most To Be Restored By Monday Morning
Oct 3, 2014: U.S. Coal Exports Fall On Lower European Demand, Increased Global Supply
For the Week of 9/26/14 — 10/3/14
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Oct 2, 2014: Energy Future Warns That IRS Ruling Could Delay Bankruptcy Process
Oct 2, 2014: Energy Future Doesn’t Have to Disclose Oncor Stake Bidders, Judge Says
Oct 2, 2014: TXU, 4Change Energy Report Net Income in EFH Bankruptcy Filing
Oct 1, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Reports $10.3M Loss In August
Oct 1, 2014: Energy Future Sees Liquidation Prospects on Tax Bill
Sept 28, 2014: Berkshire Said To Be Interested In Energy Business Oncor
Generation Adequacy
Oct 2, 2014: Industrials Propose ERCOT NPRR to Address Pricing of Certain Proxy Energy Offer Curves At Price Cap
Oct 2, 2014: Wind Power Subsidies Stir Controversy in Texas
Oct 2, 2014: Elizabeth Garza to Head the Independent Market Monitor for ERCOT
Oct 1, 2014: New Proposed Law Would Bring Dramatic Changes To The Texas Electricity Grid
Oct 1, 2014: EPA Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Permit for Austin Energy Expansion
Oct 1, 2014: EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Large Facilities
Sept 30, 2014: GE Announces Largest North American Power Project in Texas for Its 60-Hertz J920 FleXtra Gas Engine Technology
Sept 30, 2014: Wind Generation Drop in Texas Boosts Spot Electricity
Sept 30, 2014: At State Carbon Hearings, Texas Power Operators Offer Varied Future
Sept 29, 2014: Exelon Generation To Build Two New Natural Gas Units of almost 2,000 MW In Texas
Sept 29, 2014: Starwood Energy Group To Acquire 550 MW CC Power Plant in Odessa, Texas
Sept 29, 2014: Texas Power Official Warns CO2 Rule Represents “Severe Threat”
Sept 26, 2014: Texas PUC Rejects Centerpoint Appeal Of ERCOT Transmission Line Ruling
Sept 28, 2014: Texas to Further Study Subsynchronous Oscillation, While Taking Steps on Cost Allocation
Sept 28, 2014: Texas Mission Gas-Fired Plant Will Pump Electricity Into Mexico
Sept 28, 2014: Central Texas Celebrates Commissioning Of Power Plant In Temple
Sept 27, 2014: Some Believe New Larue Power Plant Will Create Problems
Sept 26, 2014: Pippy: Coal Power Plant Regulations Not ‘Realistic’
Headlines
Oct 2, 2014: NRG Acquires Pure Energies to Lower the Cost of Winning Solar Customers
Oct 2, 2014: CPS Smart Meters Making Some Uncomfortable
Oct 2, 2014: Wood, Dreyling: Austin’s Renewable Goals Are Not Sustainable
Oct 2, 2014: Smith: Austin Energy Can’t Afford To Rely On Natural Gas
Oct 2, 2014: Energy-Efficient LED Light Installation Makes History at NRG Stadium
Oct 2, 2014: EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Climate Rule Could Reach Far Beyond Power Plants
Oct 1, 2014: NRG Energy (NRG) Announces Acquisition of Pure Energies Group
Oct 1, 2014: The More Renewables You Have The More Transmission You’ll Need
Oct 1, 2014: Power Boost: New Electricity Transmission Lines Allow Power To Move More Easily Throughout The Lubbock Region
Sept 30, 2014: Retail Energy President: In 10 Years, We “Won’t Care” How Many kWhs We Sell to Customers
Sept 30, 2014: Reliant VP: “Real” Risk to Business Is We Can’t Innovate Fast Enough; Get Leapfrogged By Google/AMZN
Sept 30, 2014: CPS Energy Could Capitalize On Texas’ Growing Demand For Electricity
Sept 30, 2014: CPS Plans Pilot Program To Replace Rebate
Sept 30, 2014: Fitch: DOE Loan Guarantee Program Returns to Greenhouse Gas Roots
Sept 30, 2014: Fitch: Net Energy Metering Provides a Regulatory Dilemma
Sept 29, 2014: Xcel Energy Powers Up Texas Segment of TUCO-Woodward Electric Transmission Line
Sept 29, 2014: Grid lift for wind in Texas
Sept 29, 2014: LP&L Names McCalla As Director, CEO
Sept 29, 2014: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Defends Natural Gas
Sept 25, 2014: Electric Co-Ops Battle Over Texas Power Purchase Contract
Sept 27, 2014: Lubbock Power & Light Leaders Say Utility Could Hire New CEO Next Week
Sept 25, 2014: Bryan Texas Utility’s Coal Reserves Down After Recession
Sept 26, 2014: State Says Federal Pollution Limits Impossible To Meet
Sept 25, 2014: Texas & Germany: Energy Twins?
Renewable Power
Oct 2, 2014: Texas New Central ISD Solar Panel Will Act As Educational Tool, Save District Money
Oct 2, 2014: Beyond Efficiency: Noesis Expands Into Commercial Solar and Possibly Battery Storage
Oct 2, 2014: What To Look For – And Look Out For – In Selecting Solar Development Sites
Oct 2, 2014: Credit Where Credit Is Due: Renewable Thermal Energy Heats Up
Oct 2, 2014: Largest Solar Farm of its Kind in North America Completed
Oct 2, 2014: Sandia Assists Wind Blade Makers
Oct 1, 2014: BLM Seeks Comments on Competitive Offering Lands Processes for Solar and Wind Energy Development Regulations
Oct 1, 2014: FuelCell Energy Announces Funding Award for Advanced Material Development of Next-Generation Fuel Cell Power Plants
Sept 30, 2014: NREL Software Tool a Boon for Wind Industry
Sept 29, 2014: In Texas, Solar Manufacturer Ramps Up Production
Sept 29, 2014: Mission Solar Touts South Side Impact
Sept 29, 2014: Texas Tech Energy Department Begins New Project
Sept 29, 2014: Getting Veterans Into Solar Industry Should Start At Fort Hood, Local Business Owner Says
Sept 26, 2014: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric To Manufacture Solar Photovoltaic Inverters In Houston, Texas
Sept 25, 2014: IBM’s Solar Concentrator Can Produce Energy, Clean Water And AC
Outside Texas
Oct 2, 2014: Shale Oil-Fuelled Power Plant To Be Ready Late 2018
Oct 2, 2014: Germany’s Energy Model Can Save The World
Sept 28, 2014: Electric Vehicles Sell Power Back to the Grid
Sept 25, 2014: Technology Revolution In Nuclear Power Could Slash Costs Below Coal
Other News
Oct 2, 2014: Energy Curtailment Specialists Settlement Agreement and NOV
Oct 2, 2014: Texas Rep Offering Texas Customers Choice of Three Free Goal Zero Products With Enrollment
Oct 2, 2014: GM To Make Chevrolet Electric Car
Oct 1, 2014: TXU Energy Challenges Consumers to Find “Watt’s the Difference” During Energy Awareness Month
Sept 30, 2014: JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation Files Amendment to REP Certification
Sept 29, 2014: Ector County Energy Center Registers as new PGC
Sept 29, 2014: GDF SUEZ Energy Resources Introduces Streamlined Index Price Plans and New Easy Flex Product
Sept 26, 2014: Reach Energy Relinquishes REP Certificate
Sept 26, 2014: EIF Channelview Cogeneration Amends PGC Registration
Sept 25, 2014: Toyota Bets Big On Fuel Cell Vehicles
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Sept 25, 2014: 10 Potential Bidders, Including CenterPoint and Buffet’s Berkshire, Said to Explore Bids for Oncor
Sept 25, 2014: Berkshire Hathaway, Hunt Consolidated Could Bid for Oncor
Sept 25, 2014: Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Among Possible Bidders For Oncor Electric
Sept 24, 2014: Beckville Coal Mine Operated by Luminant To Play Out In 2015
Sept 24, 2014: Titus County Appraisal District Settles Value With Luminant For $350 Million
Sept 22, 2014: Calling All Bidders: Auction For Energy Future Holdings’ Oncor Stake Is Now Open
Sept 22, 2014: Bidding Begins For Sale Of Energy Future Holdings’ Stake In Oncor
Sept 20, 2014: Energy Future Opens the Bidding On Rights to Oncor Stake
Generation Adequacy
Sept 25, 2014: Siemens powers Temple I with First Flex-Plant in Texas
Sept 25, 2014: Bechtel, Part of Siemens Completes State-of-the-Art Combined-Cycle Plant in Texas
Sept 25, 2014: Texas Grid Finally Catches Up With Wind Power Output
Sept 25, 2014: Wind Coalition Statement In Response To Texas Comptroller Report On Renewables
Sept 24, 2014: Facing Compliance Costs, Texas Generators Urge Slowdown of ERCOT Subsynchronous Oscillation Policy Evaluation
Sept 24. 2014: TCEQ Denies Power Producers’ Plea For Tax Relief
Sept 20, 2014: Exelon Generation May Add 1,147 MW Of Gas-Fired Capacity In Texas
Sept 22, 2014: ERCOT Uplift Would Be Used to Compensate Generators for Oscillation Protection Under One (of Three) Staff Proposal
Sept 19, 2014: U.S. Demand Response Market Outlook 2014
Headlines
Sept 25, 2014: Homeowner Asks IRS to Weigh in on Austin Energy’s Solar Tariffs
Sept 25, 2014: IRS to review Value of Solar Tariffs in Austin, Texas
Sept 25, 2014: Acquisitions Power Dynegy Back Into Top Tier Of Generators
Sept 25, 2014: Is Solar About to Explode in Texas?
Sept 25, 2014: FERC Revises Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities
Sept 24, 2014: NRG Energy Receives “BB-” Credit Rating
Sept 24, 2014: NRG Yield Raised to “Outperform” at Zacks
Sept 24, 2014: Austin Seeks Increase Of Solar Energy Usage
Sept 24, 2014: Those Texas Renewable Power Lines More Than Pay For Themselves
Sept 24, 2014: Fitch Affirms New Braunfels, TX Electric System Revs at ‘AA’; Outlook Stable
Sept 24, 2014: Exelon Recognized for Corporate Sustainability Performance and Reporting by Two Global Authorities
Sept 24, 2014: Texas Revives Low-Income Energy Efficiency Proposal
Sept 23, 2014: Comptroller Susan Combs Releases Energy Report; Says Electricity Policy Should Focus On Reliability, Affordability
Sept 23, 2014: Combs’ Wind Energy Report Lacking Facts
Sept 23, 2014: Solar in Texas: It’s Really Happening this Time (Really)
Sept 23, 2014: DOE: $5M To Develop Clean Energy Projects At Federal Facilities, Including NASA
Sept 22, 2014: Cross Rio Grande Valley Transmission Line Could Bring Changes
Sept 22, 2014: Carol Biedrzycki Fights for Texas Electricity Ratepayers
Sept 22, 2014: Is Bill Gates Behind The Times On Renewable Energy?
Sept 22, 2014: Military Microgrid Market Potential
Sept 22, 2014: Carbon-Capture Technology Works, But Cost Is Still Prohibitive
Sept 22, 2014: TNMP Seeks Authorization for Smart Meter Remediation Plan to Replace 2G Technology
Sept 19, 2014: Just Energy Reaches Agreement On The Sale Of Hudson Energy Solar Corp.
Sept 19, 2014: NRC Issues Final Rule on Spent Nuclear Fuel Continued Storage
Sept 19, 2014: More Evidence That Smart Grids Are Morphing Into Smart Cities
Sept 19, 2014: What Are The Investing Prospects In Microgrids
Sept 19, 2014: USDA Invests $23M To Improve Electric Grid
Sept 19, 2014: Federal Funding Goes To Rural Solar, Renewable Energy Projects
Renewable Power
Sept 25, 2014: Solar Plan Gets Nod From Brewster County in Texas
Sept 25, 2014: Renewable Energy Show Comes To Bell County Expo Center
Sept 25, 2014: Discovery Green Renews Clean Energy Commitment with Choice for 100% Wind from Green Mountain Energy Company
Sept 25, 2014: Wall Street & Main Street Vote For Clean Energy
Sept 24, 2014: $100B Invested In Wind Or Solar Will Produce More Energy Than Oil
Sept 24, 2014: Backyard Power Plants Can Back Up Solar, Rival Batteries
Sept 24, 2014: New Funding Program Will Provide $68 Million To Efficiency And Solar Power Projects Throughout The Country
Sept 23, 2014: Bill Would Prohibit VA From Spending Money On Alternative Energy Projects
Sept 23, 2014: Norfolk Company Wins Prize For Solar Cellphone Charger
Sept 23, 2014: Ideal Power Receives Order for Distributed Wind Application
Sept 23, 2014: Solar3D Touts Advantages of Owning Versus Leasing Solar
Sept 22, 2014: Organizations Hold Launch Party at UT Austin For Solar-Charging Stations
Sept 22, 2014: NREL to Test Inverters for the “Little Box Challenge” Presented by Google and IEEE
Sept 22, 2014: Sun Rises on Mission Solar Energy, Texas’s First N-Type Solar Manufacturing Factory
Sept 22, 2014: Unsubsidised Wind And Solar Competitive With Coal, Lazard Says
Sept 22, 2014: AREVA Wins Additional Contract From The U.S. Department Of Energy For The Development Of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel
Sept 22, 2014: Renewable Energy Investment Attractiveness Sees China Soar, US & UK Lose Ground
Sept 20, 2014: Mission Solar in Texas Producing Solar Panels
Sept 19, 2014: NREL Industry Growth Forum Attracts Clean Energy Entrepreneurs And Investors
Sept 19, 2014: Wind Offers Strong Force In The Sector
Sept 19, 2014: Falling Costs For Wind Power, And Other Top 5 Takeaways From New Wall Street Report
Sept 19, 2014: Large Green Power Plants Competing With Gas, Says Lazard
Sept 19, 2014: GE Proves That Wind Energy Can Stabilize The Grid
Sept 19, 2014: New Studies: Prices Of Rooftop And Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics Significantly Declined In The U.S.
Outside Texas
Sept 25, 2014: Can Energy Utilities Keep Their Customers, Or Will They Flee The Grid?
Sept 25, 2014: SCE Unveils Largest Battery Energy Storage Facility In North America
Sept 25, 2014: State Policies Effective In Reducing CO2
Sept 24, 2014: FERC Must Not Allow “Piecemeal” Acquisitions to Skirt Market Power Review, Mitigation
Sept 23, 2014: Australia Energy Industry Blueprint Sees Large Scale Deregulation
Sept 22, 2014: Retail Suppliers Warn PJM Ignoring Transition Costs, Mechanism for New Capacity Performance Procurement
Sept 22, 2014: New York Proposal Would “Further Entrench” Utilities As Service Providers, “Roll Back” Decades of Competition
Sept 22, 2014: Direct Energy Offers Novel Interpretations of Court’s Order Vacating Order 745, Future of Demand Response
Sept 22, 2014: Exelon: Government Must Ensure Financial Viability of “Merchant” Generators
Sept 22, 2014: Fifty Foundations Pledge To Divest From Fossil Fuels
Sept 22, 2014: Legislature Discusses Altering Public Utility Regulation
Sept 22, 2014: PJM Load Paying $433 Million in Higher Costs Annually Due to Energy Efficiency Omitted from PJM Capacity Market Load Forecast
Sept 18, 2014: Demand Response Industry and Consumer Coalition Reacts to U.S. Circuit Court Decision
Sept 21, 2014: Rockefellers, Heirs to an Oil Fortune, Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels
Other News
Sept 25, 2014: Wolf Hollow I Facility, the Handley Facility, and Mountain Creek Facility File Change in Ownership
Sept 25, 2014: Application for REP Certification of Agera Energy, Proposed Buyer of Glacial Energy, is Dismissed
Sept 24, 2014: Founder of Summit Energy Services Launches New Energy Solutions Company
Sept 23, 2014: With Emissions Rising, It’s Time To Embrace Natural Gas
Sept 23, 2014: It’s Time For Real Eminent Domain Reform
Sept 22, 2014: Agreed Settlement and Notice of Violation by PUCT for SPS Filed
Sept 22, 2014: TX Hereford Wind Registers as PGC
Sept 22, 2014: Direct Energy Offers Free Power to Smart Meters Customers
Sept 17, 2014: NRG Energy Services Adds Turbine Expertise, Flexible Workforce to Offer More Choices to Customers
Sept 22, 2014: In Film On Alternative Car Fuels, Former Shell Exec Speaks Out
Sept 22, 2014: SWEPCO Notice of Violation and Settlement by PUCT Results in Penalties
Sept 22, 2014: AEP North and AEP Central Agree to PUCT’s Administrative Penalties
Sept 22, 2014: ExTex LaPorte Amend Texas PGC Registration
Sept 22, 2014: Texas CER-Colorado Bend Energy Partners LP Changes Its Name
Sept 19, 2014: Texas Risks Losing Business With Mexico To California
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For the Week of 9/12/14 — 9/19/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Sept 18, 2014: Twenty-Year ONCOR Franchise To Renew
Sept 16, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future To Offer Auction Plan Amid Bidding War
Sept 16, 2014: Titus County Appraisal District settles with Luminant
Sept 15, 2014: Energy Future Eyes Early 2015 For Oncor Auction -Sources
Sept 15, 2014: Oncor Identifies Worker Shot While Responding To Call
Sept 12, 2014: Oncor Fighting Ruling On So-Called ‘Phantom Taxes’
Generation Adequacy
Sept 18, 2014: Transmission Grid Planning Must Stay Flexible, ERCOT Utilities Say
Sept 18, 2014: ERCOT, TDU Oppose Retail Provider’s Sought Resettlement Due to Inaccurate Meter Data
Sept 17, 2014: Houston Transmission Line Proposal Sparks High-Powered Dispute
Sept 17, 2014: Proposed Transmission Line Puts Corporate Powerhouses At Odds
Sept 16, 2014: Panda Sherman Power Goes On ERCOT Grid
Sept 16, 2014: Texas Electricity Rises on Below-Forecast Production From Wind
Sept 16, 2014: Generators Push To Get Texas Regulators Away From Wind-Cost Investigation
Sept 16, 2014: Fitch: Mild Summer Weather Dampening US Public Power
Sept 15, 2014: Duke Ropes Texas Service Deal
Sept 15, 2014: Duke Energy To Build Texas Wind Power Project
Sept 12, 2014: Austin: Solar Now A Default Energy Source
Sept 12, 2014: EPA Power Plant Proposal Could Fast-Track Natural Gas Pipeline Projects, S&P Says
Sept 12, 2014: Make Climate Change Work For Texas
Headlines
Sept 18, 2014: El Paso Electric Appoints El Pasoan Mary Kipp as New President
Sept 18, 2014: El Paso-area native is El Paso Electric’s first woman president, CEO in waiting
Sept 18, 2014: US House Passes Bills To Boost Domestic Energy
Sept 18, 2014: Hard Truths About World Power Plant Carbon Emissions
Sept 19, 2014: CFTC Rule Approved Today Will Help Public Power Utilities Hedge Fuel and Electric Power Price Risks
Sept 18, 2014: NRG Energy Closes Strategic Acquisition of Personal Solar Products Market Leader
Sept 17, 2014: Sen. Cornyn Requests Delay On Proposed EPA Rule That Would Unfairly Burden Texas Energy Consumers
Sept 17, 2014: Lawmaker Wants EPA To Consider Cost Of New Smog Limits
Sept 17, 2014: EPA Extends Comment Period On Power Plant Proposal
Sept 17, 2014: Nuclear Energy Industry Congratulates New NRC Commissioners
Sept 16, 2014: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Get Scrubbed Down Before It Is Enacted
Sept 16, 2014: Byrne: EPA Comment Period Should Be Extended
Sept 16, 2014: Manchin Alarmed by New Report on Rising Coal Plant Retirements
Sept 15, 2014: Flowgroup Subsidiary Signs MOU With NRG Energy For US Boiler Testing in Texas
Sept 15, 2014: NRG Energy Downgraded by Zacks
Sept 15, 2014: Texas Must Set The Compass For Energy Realism
Sept 15, 2014: While Chasing Tesla, Austin Area Finds ‘Game-Changer Site’
Sept 12, 2014: The Price of Power in the Panhandle: Part Two
Sept 11, 2014: The Price of Power in the Panhandle – Part I
Sept 12, 2014: PNM Declares Preferred Dividend
Sept 12, 2014: Xcel Energy Seeks up to 200 MW of New Solar Resources
Sept 12, 2014: Is Solar Development Boom About to Begin in Texas?
Power Grid Security
Sept 12, 2014: Cybersecurity Is a Top Concern for Energy Companies
Renewable Power
Sept 18, 2014: Solar Farms Will Diversify Pecos County’s Energy Market, Increase Tax Revenue
Sept 18, 2014: DOE’s Proposed Air Conditioner Rules Could Yield Biggest Savings
Sept 18, 2014: Fracking Gives US Geothermal New Hope
Sept 18, 2014: US To Train Veterans To Install Solar Panels
Sept 18, 2014: Us Solar Power And Wind Energy Start To Outshine Gas
Sept 18, 2014: Obama Pushes Energy Efficiency, Rural Solar Power
Sept 18, 2014: Studies Find Declines In Price Of Rooftop And Utility-Scale Solar
Sept 18, 2014: Brighter Future: A Study on Solar in U.S. Schools Report
Sept 17, 2014: SEIA, Vote Solar Celebrate Solar’s Continued Price Declines
Sept 17, 2014: Adjusting Wind Power Production During Migration Season Saves Bats
Sept 16, 2014: First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) Trying Hard to Capture the Solar Landscape
Sept 16, 2014: North American Windpower Reports U.S. Offshore Wind Is “Embryonic No More
Sept 16, 2014: Wind Turbines Kill Fewer Birds Than Do Cats, Cell Towers
Sept 16, 2014: NRG Home Solar Honored with Major Awards
Sept 16, 2014: New SolarCity Product Makes it Possible for Businesses to Significantly Increase Solar Output From Each Rooftop
Sept 15, 2014: Feds Look To Make Hotels More Energy Efficient
Sept 15, 2014: Scottish Independence Would ‘Slam Brakes’ On Alex Salmond’s Wind Farm Plans
Sept 15, 2014: Is Geothermal Power About to Become The Next Great Battleground Over Fracking?
Sept 15, 2014: DOE Awards $4.5M For Wind Power R&D Projects
Sept 11, 2014: Solar Continues Trumping Fossil Fuel Pricing, With More Innovations To Come
Sept 13, 2014: Strange Bedfellows: Solar Power Meets Oil Drilling
Sept 14, 2014: Google’s $145 Million Clean Energy Investment Puts Solar Atop Old Oil Field
Sept 12, 2014: Cooking Up Renewable Energy Action
Sept 12, 2014: How Pellets Compare to Fossil Fuels in Carbon Intensity and Cost
Outside Texas
Sept 18, 2014: Demand Response Industry and Consumer Coalition Reacts to U.S. Circuit Court Decision
Sept 18, 2014: Group Slams Federal Energy Regulators Over Alleged Market Manipulation
Sept 18, 2014: New York PSC, FERC to Hold Technical Conference on N.Y. Markets, Infrastructure (Capacity Market)
Sept 17, 2014: Court Denies En Banc Rehearing of Order Vacating FERC Demand Response Compensation Order
Sept 16, 2014: Westinghouse Launches New Outage Control Center
Other News
Sept 19, 2014: Texas REP Offering New REC Add-On Product in Addition to Existing Renewable Plans
Sept 18, 2014: Texas REP Innovation to Inspiration Tour Highlights Technology-Driven Transformation of Energy Service
Sept 18, 2014: GDF Suez Notice of Violation Agreement Filed at PUCT
Sept 18, 2014: Summer Energy Changing Risk Management Qualifying Staff
Sept 18, 2014: Former CEO of Green Mountain Energy Joins Texas REP as a Strategic Advisor
Sept 17, 2014: At “Kumbaya” Meeting, LCRA’s New Colorado River Plan Passes
Sept 16, 2014: E-Now Notice of Violation Agreement Filed
Sept 16, 2014: Texas REP Offering Free Month of Electricity
Sept 15, 2014: EcoFactor Appoints Matthew Plante As CEO
Sept 15, 2014: App Shows NRG’s Strategy for Connected Home, Services
Sept 12, 2014: Retail Provider Offering Free Power in “Power to the People” Contest
Sept 12, 2014: Texas Staff File Final Proposed List of Non-Volunteer POLRs for 2015-16
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For the Week of 9/5/14 — 9/12/14
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Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Sept 5, 2014: Energy Future’s Turnaround May Get Surprise Boost From New York Judge
Sept 9, 2014: TCAD Negotiations Continue With Luminant Over Value
Sept 8, 2014: Fearing Luminant Outcome, County Proposes Tax Hike
Sept 6, 2014: Energy Future Bondholders Clueless About NextEra’s Stance On Oncor Deal
Sept 6, 2014: Somervell County Makes Cuts As Luminant’s Comanche Peak’s Value Drops
Generation Adequacy
Sept 11, 2014: Texans Consume More Power In August But Peak Demand Declines
Sept 11, 2014: PUCT Approves new Ponderosa to Grimes Transmission Line
Sept 11, 2014: Man-Made Fuel For Nuclear Power
Sept 12, 2014: Generators Playing With Fire: Court Further Chips Away At FERC Justification for Capacity Market
Sept 11, 2014: PJM Board Won’t Take Holistic Approach to Capacity Market, Approves More Piecemeal Changes
Sept 10, 2014: Washington Lawmakers Should Adopt Texas-Style Energy Policy
Sept 9, 2014: Texas Officials Declare EPA’s Proposed CO2 Emission Rule Unworkable
Sept 9, 2014: Natural Gas, Solar, And Wind Lead Power Plant Capacity Additions In First-Half 2014
Sept 8, 2014: Fluor Completes New Gas-Fired Power Plant in Texas
Sept 8, 2014: BTU Purchases Additional Electric Generation from South Texas Windmills
Sept 8, 2014: First Solar Completes The Initial Phase Of America’s First Solar Plant To Sell Electricity On The Spot Market
Sept 8, 2014: First Solar Completes 18 MW Barilla Solar PV Project In Texas, Brings Competitively Priced Solar Power To The Market
Sept 8, 2014: Uranium Resources to Add Properties near Its South Texas Processing Facilities
Sept 5, 2014: Electricity Reliability Council Promises Fewer Blackouts For Valley
Sept 5, 2014: Texas Cities Focus On Increasing Solar Power Generation
Sept 5, 2014: NRC Issues Mid-Cycle Assessments for Nation’s Nuclear Plants
Sept 5, 2014: NRG’s Carbon Capture Project May Prove Groundbreaking
Headlines
Sept 11, 2014: Energy Lobbyists Big Spenders in Texas Legislature
Sept 11, 2014: Xcel Energy Recognized for Corporate Sustainability
Sept 11, 2014: NRG Energy Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Buy” from Brokerages
Sept 10, 2014: USDA Signs Off Smart Grid Projects In 15 Rural States
Sept 10, 2014: Spark Energy Reports Expanded Unit Margins, Customer Growth
Sept 10, 2014: Fitch Affirms Seguin, TX’s Utility Revs at ‘A+’; Outlook Stable
Sept 10, 2014: Mirzatuny: Elon Musk’s Love-Hate Relationship with Texas
Sept 10, 2014: With Natural Gas To Burn, Drillers Try Using It To Power Rigs
Sept 10, 2014: Must-Know: The Structure Of The Electric Utility Industry
Sept 9, 2014: Perry: Toyota to Tesla Invest Based on Taxes, Regulation
Sept 9, 2014: Few Show For Galveston Nuke Meeting
Sept 9, 2014: Fitch Affirms Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (TX)’s CP at ‘F1+’
Sept 9, 2014: The Race to Create the 21st Century Utilities: The Biggest Opportunity of our Era
Sept 9, 2014: At Power Conference, Utilities and Suppliers Ponder Industry Model
Sept 9, 2014: Compass to Build Data Center for American Electric Power
Sept 9, 2014: FuelCell Energy Announces Agreement to Sell University Fuel Cell Project to NRG Energy
Sept 8, 2014: Fitch Rates San Antonio City Public Service’s (TX) Elec & Gas Bonds ‘AA+’
Sept 8, 2014: Atkins Buys US Nuclear Business
Sept 8, 2014: How To Survive The Coming Utility Revolution
Sept 8, 2014: Energy Dept: $8M to Improve Grid, Adapt with Microgrids
Sept 8, 2014: Energy Department Announces $8 Million to Improve Resiliency of the Grid
Sept 5, 2014: Power To Confuse? Sneaky Fees Obscure Costs For Texas Electricity Shoppers
Sept 5, 2014: Houston’s Economy Too Strong To Draw Tesla
Sept 5, 2014: Disused Nuclear Barge To Be Scrapped In Galveston
Sept 5, 2014: Capital Improvements, Fuel Costs Increase Texas Bills
Sept 5, 2014: Floresville’s (TX) Electric System Revs ‘AA-’; Outlook Revised to Negative
Sept 4, 2014: Demanding The Impossible
Sept 5, 2014: AEP Chief Financial Officer To Address Investors At Barclays Conference
Renewable Power
Sept 11, 2014: Solar Continues Trumping Fossil Fuel Pricing, With More Innovations To Come
Sept 11, 2014: Solar3D Announces Battery Storage Solutions for Solar Energy Systems
Sept 11, 2014: DOE Awards USD 1.1 Mln for Wildlife-Wind Power Study
Sept 11, 2014: “Fantasy” of Fuel From Corn Waste Gets Big U.S. Test
Sept 10, 2014: Wind Energy Keeps Costs Low And Improves Reliability
Sept 9, 2014: FuelCell Energy Sales Dipped In Third Quarter
Sept 9, 2014: Study: Solar Power Boom Underway In U.S.
Sept 9, 2014: U.S. Solar Market Insight: Q2 2014
Sept 8, 2014: Sharp Seeks Sale of U.S Solar Developer Recurrent Energy
Sept 8, 2014: Duke Energy Renewables to build 110MW wind project in Starr County, Texas
Sept 8, 2014: DOE Validates Avent Lidar Technology’s Wind Iris System
Sept 8, 2014: U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Industry Making Steady Progress
Sept 5, 2014: US Solar Makes Up Over Half Of New Generating Capacity
Sept 8, 2014: Geothermal Resources Used To Produce Renewable Electricity In Western States
Sept 8, 2014: Sharp Seeks Sale of U.S Solar Developer Recurrent Energy
Sept 5, 2014: Solar-Powered Savings: How North Texans Are Raising The Roof Over Generating Electricity
Sept 5, 2014: New Report Shows U.S. Solar Industry Nearing 16 GW of Installed Capacity
Sept 5, 2014: Advocate For Birds Wants Safer Wind Turbines
Emerging Technologies
Sept 8, 2014: The Future of the Smart Grid 2014
Outside Texas
Sept 11, 2014: PJM Board Won’t Take Holistic Approach to Capacity Market, Approves More Piecemeal Changes
Sept 9, 2014: Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power
Sept 8, 2014: Dynegy Pushing for Downstate Illinois to Join PJM
Sept 8, 2014: Power Plants Heading Out to Sea in Post-Fukushima Japan
Sept 8, 2014: Fusion Power: The Case of the Wrong Competitors
Sept 5, 2014: California In Tussle Over Record Utility Fine
Sept 8, 2014: FERC Sets October Workshop on Scarcity Pricing in RTOs, Offer Caps and Mitigation
Other News
Sept 12, 2014: Texas REP Launches Energy Management Tools
Sept 12, 2014: Texas REP to Provide Customers With Free Energy Usage Reports
Sept 12, 2014: Texas REP Launches Updated Online Account Manager, 3.0
Sept 12, 2014: GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA Names 20-Year Retail Energy Veteran As VP of Sales
Sept 11, 2014: Texas Assigns 6 REPs Cost of Broadcasting PUCT Meetings
Sept 11, 2014: Hate Red-Light Cameras And Smart Meters? Now Hear This
Sept 10, 2014: Texas REPs Challenge POLR Designations
Sept 10, 2014: Direct Energy Tweets Sneak Peek of Smart Home Exhibit To Be Part of Innovation Roadshow
Sept 10, 2014: NRG Energy Receives Average Rating of “Buy” from Brokerages
Sept 10, 2014: Electricity Restored To North Texas County Courthouse, Reopens After Closure For A Day
Sept 9, 2014: Texas Energy Broker Names Retail Market Veteran As New Partner and Director of Sales
Sept 9, 2014: Axon Power & Gas Files for REP Certification
Sept 9, 2014: NRG Energy Moves Up In Analyst Rankings, Passing Priceline Group
Sept 9, 2014: Pedernales EC Promotes Texas Hill Country Development
Sept 9, 2014: House Passes Bill To Halt EPA Water Rule
Sept 9, 2014: Six University Coal Research Projects Selected to Boost Advanced Energy Production, including UT Arlington
Sept 9, 2014: What Is Nuclear Engineering?
Sept 8, 2014: Another Texas REP Seeks to Assign POLR Obligations to Affiliate
Sept 8, 2014: NRG Energy CEO Acquires $152,450 in Stock (NRG)
Sept 5, 2014: Texas Staff File Revised Preliminary List of Non-Volunteer POLRs
Sept 8, 2014: Assets of Texas Based Public Utility Brokers Acquired By Rival
Sept 5, 2014: Israel Looks To Texas As Promised Land For Energy Investment
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For the Week of 8/29/14 — 9/5/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News
Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Sept 4, 2014: Sierra Club Ordered to Pay Luminant’s Attorneys’ Fees in Big Brown Suit
Sept 3, 2014: In Power Industry, EFH Plants Represent Next Big Deal
Sept 2, 2014: Fitch Withdraws Ratings on Brazos River Authority, TX (TXU Energy Company LLC) Series 2002A Bonds
Sept 2, 2014: After Bold Moves, Dynegy Could Eventually Eye Energy Future Holdings
Aug 29, 2014: East Texas Coal Mine Operated by Luminant Closing
Generation Adequacy
Sept 4, 2014: NRG Energy Retrofitting Texas Power Plant To Capture CO2 Emissions
Sept 4, 2014: OCI Solar Power Firing Up Three New Texas Solar Projects
Sept 3, 2014: Duke Energy to build Los Vientos V wind power project in Texas
Sept 3, 2014: NRG’s Texas Coal Plant Works On Clean Energy Project
Sept 3, 2014: West Texas Solar Plant Comes Online
Sept 3, 2014: Bureaucracy-Loving NRG Strikes Populist Tone, Invokes “Network” in “Generation Change”
Sept 2, 2014: ERCOT: Grid Should Meet Upcoming Electricity Demands
Sept 2, 2014: How Does Oil and Gas Drilling Raise Electricity Prices in West Texas?
Aug 31, 2014:. $1 Billion Electricity Line To Run Through South Texas
Aug 25, 2014: Will Your Region See Growth in Natural Gas?
Aug 29, 2014: Spinning Spur II Wind Farm Project, Texas, United States of America
Aug 29, 2014: Calpine To Sell Power Plant To Duke Amid Debate In Florida
Headlines
Sept 4, 2014: Xcel Announces Rate Increase For Texas Customers To Begin Oct. 1
Sept 4, 2014: Dirtiest U.S. Coal Becoming Most Popular on EPA Rules
Sept 4, 2014: Nevada Offers Tesla Up To $1.3B For Battery Plant
Sept 3, 2014: Texas Set To Become Solar Powerhouse
Sept 3, 2014: Tesla Picking Nevada, Not Texas, For ‘Gigafactory’
Sept 3, 2014: Tesla Gigafactory: Two Officials Confirm Nevada Will Get The Plant
Sept 3, 2014: Fitch: Solid 2Q for U.S. Utilities Ahead of Mild Summer
Sept 3, 2014: Why 2014 Is The Year Of The Energy-Water Nexus
Sept 3, 2014: A Quick Look At Smart Grid Markets Performance
Sept 3, 2014: DEFG’s EcoPinion Survey Points to Tension Between Providing Good Customer Service and Loyalty
Sept 2, 2014: EPE Releases RFP For Two Solar Energy Facilities
Sept 2, 2014: Environmental Energy Company To Expand In Houston And Austin
Sept 2, 2014: EPA’s Strict Mining Policies Make U.S. Dependent On Imports
Aug 28, 2014: Sam Houston EC Customers To See $2.3 Million In Capital Credits This Year
Sept 2, 2014: NRC Storage Decision May Lead To Building Of More Dangerous Nuclear Power Plants
Sept 2, 2014: President Obama Taps Colette Honorable To Join FERC
Sept 2, 2014: Commission Chair Lafleur Talks Carbon Rule Challenges, Reliability, Order 1000, Senate Politics
Aug 29, 2014: Austin, Texas Passes a New Law Making Solar a ‘Default’ Generation Resource
Aug 28, 2014: Entergy: Electric Bills Will Decrease 12 Percent In September, October
Sept 2, 2014: NC Offered $100M For Toyota HQ, Twice Texas Bid
Aug 28, 2014: Do Taxpayers Want To Pay $500 Million For Tesla’s Factory?
Aug 29, 2014: Confidence — What Does It Mean For Nuclear Waste?
Power Grid Security
Sept 3, 2014: New ISIS Threat: America’s Electric Grid; Blackout Could Kill 9 Of 10
Aug 31, 2014: Expert: ‘Imminent’ ISIS Threat To U.S. Power Grid
Renewable Power
Sept 4, 2014: DOE: New Reports Highlight Major Potential in Offshore Wind Energy
Sept 3, 2014: Company Works on New Solar Technology
Sept 3, 2014: As Coal Dims, Solar Will Catch Fire… Eventually
Sept 3, 2014: Electric Vehicle Sales Are Running Out Of Gas
Sept 3, 2014: Eaton Displays Critical Solutions for the Wind Energy Industry
Sept 3, 2014: World’s Largest Private Bank Bullish About Solar, New Energiewende Site (Solar News…)
Sept 3, 2014: The Convergence Of Solar PV, Storage Batteries, And Electric Vehicles To Revolutionize Industries
Sept 2, 2014: Future Uncertain For U.S. Wind Energy
Sept 2, 2014: USA – Unlikely Bedfellows: Mines That Run On Solar Or Wind Power
Sept 1, 2014: Geothermal Power Gathering Steam in U.S.
Sept 2, 2014: Solar Company Seeks Stiff U.S. Tariffs to Deter Chinese Spying
Aug 29, 2014: Plano Area Readers Tell Us If Developers Should Ban The Use Of Solar Panels
Aug 29, 2014: Dept. of Energy Report Shows How Far U.S. Wind Has Come and the Challenges Ahead
Aug 29, 2014: Why SunPower is Increasingly Holding Solar Projects On Its Books
Emerging Technologies
Sept 3, 2014: Advanced Cooling Technologies for Water Savings at Coal-Fired Power Plants
Sept 2, 2014: Power Plant Ultrapure Water Systems To Rise Significantly In 2015
Outside Texas
Sept 4, 2014: California Utility PG&E Could Face Fines Totaling $5.89 Billion
Sept 2, 2014: GMP And NRG Energy Talk Energy
Sept 2, 2014: Green Mountain Power and NRG Energy Partner to Make Vermont a National Leader in Sustainable Energy
Sept 2, 2014: FERC Opens Investigation of PJM Up-to Congestion Charges, FTR Forfeiture Rule
Other News
Sept 5, 2014: Mesquite Creek Wind LLC Files for Texas REC Generator Certification
Sept 5, 2014: Volt Electricity Provider, LP Files for Texas REP Certification
Sept 4, 2014: Deal Signed To Sell Israeli Natural Gas To Jordan
Sept 3, 2014: Texas Staff File List of REPs Eligible to Be Designated as Non-Volunteer POLRs
Sept 3, 2014: Water Reuse Has Bad Rap, But It’s A Clean, Efficient Way To Fight Drought In Texas
Sept 3, 2014: U.S.A. Has Become The #1 Natural Gas Producer In The World
Sept 2, 2014: Broker-Consultant 5 Names Industry Veteran As Part of PJM West Expansion
Sept 2, 2014: Texas REP Promotion to Pay Customer’s Last Electric Bill With Old Provider When Switching
Aug 29, 2014: Morgan Stanley Plans Natural Gas Export Plant In New Commodities Foray
Sept 2, 2014: US Government Seeks Train To Haul Nuclear Waste
Sept 2, 2014: Padre Energy and Associates Files Registration as an Aggregator in Texas
Aug 28, 2014: Newly Built CO2-Emitting Plants Outpace Closings
Sept 1, 2014: Do High Voltage Power Lines Cause Cancer?
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For the Week of 8/22/14 — 8/29/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Aug 28, 2014: EFH Received a Restraining Order to Stop Bidding of Oncor
Aug 28, 2014: FPL Parent Nextera To Bid On Bankrupt Texas Energy Company
Aug 27, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future Will Soon Propose Auction Process
Aug 26, 2014: EFH Asks Bankruptcy Court To Delay Bidding On Oncor
Aug 26, 2014: EFH Delays Bankruptcy Auction For Oncor
Aug 26, 2014: Oncor Bidding On Back Burner
Aug 22, 2014: Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Holds That NOVs Issued By EPA to Luminant Are Not Final Agency Actions
Aug 26, 2014: $360,000 Verdict Against Oncor In Dairy Fire Overturned
Aug 21, 2014: Bankruptcy Auctions 101: Recent Texas Power Plant Auction
Generation Adequacy
Aug 28, 2014:. Texas and Germany: Energy Twins?
Aug 27, 2014:.Positive Electricity News Tempered By EPA Threats
Aug 26, 2014: EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Texas’ Last Stand Or Last Hope?
Aug 26, 2014: Texas Powers Down
Aug 26, 2014: PJM Seeks to Correct “Windfall” Adder Payments to Mitigated Units
Aug 26, 2014: Duke Energy To Sell 11 Power Plants To Dynegy For $2.8B
Aug 26, 2014: GDF SUEZ: Lawsuit Plaintiffs, “Don’t Like The Rules,” of the ERCOT Market, Want Court to Intervene
Aug 26, 2014: FERC Opens 206 Investigation of Calculation of Market Seller Offer Caps in PJM Capacity Market
Aug 25, 2014: Calpine Scoops Up Power Plant For More Than Half A Billion
Aug 25, 2014: Calpine to Acquire Fore River Generating Station in New England
Aug 22, 2014: Official: Power Plant Plan Could Spike Electricity Prices
Aug 22, 2014: Uncertainty Perhaps The Only Sure Thing About EPA Clean Power Plan
Aug 22, 2014: Utilities, States Trying To Get Handle On Carbon Compliance
Headlines
Aug 28, 2014: Lower Electricity Bills for Entergy Customers are on the Way
Aug 28, 2014: Solar Energy in Texas
Aug 28, 2014: Update on US Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, and Renewables
Aug 28, 2014: NRC Finalizes Spent Nuclear Storage Rule
Aug 27, 2014: Infrastructure Upgrades Mean Texas No Longer Wastes Wind Power
Aug 27, 2014: Nuclear Plants Prevail On Storage Of Waste
Aug 27, 2014: Utilities Spending Big On Transmission Grid, EIA Finds
Aug 27, 2014: FERC Proposes to Streamline Market-Based Rate Program
Aug 26, 2014: Dallas Pays More for Electricity than Austin or San Antonio. Thanks, Deregulation.
Aug 26, 2014: Austin Energy: Renewable Energy Push Is ‘Too Much Of A Good Thing’
Aug 26, 2014: El Paso Electric Seeks Proposals For Fort Bliss, Montana Solar Plants
Aug 26, 2014: Nuclear Industry Commends NRC for Finalizing Used Fuel Storage Rule
Aug 26, 2014: Former EPA Attorney: Agency ‘On Shaky Ground’ With New Emissions Rules
Aug 26, 2014: Smart Grid as a Service Will Reach $11.2 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2023, Forecasts Navigant Research
Aug 26, 2014: U.S. and Europe Face Similar Challenges with Underground Power Lines
Aug 26, 2014: Investment In Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Shows Steady Increase
Aug 25, 2014: Who’s Getting the Best Deals on Electricity in Texas?
Aug 26, 2014: ERCOT TDUs Request Draws on Reach Energy Letter of Credit
Aug 25, 2014: West Texas Energy Bills Show Boom’s Unexpected Costs
Aug 22, 2014: Hill Country Co-Op Launches Strategy To Support Rural Economic Development
Aug 23, 2014: Is Texas Still A Threat To Land Tesla’s Gigafactory?
Aug 22, 2014: TCEQ Approves Nuclear Waste Site Expansion Despite Environmental Concerns
Aug 25, 2014: EPA Sends Renewable Fuels Rule to White House
Aug 22, 2014: Warren Buffett’s Energy Company Says Net Metering Should Be ‘Eliminated’
Renewable Power
Aug 28, 2014: 10 Facts About The Smart Grid: IT’s Role In Unlocking Clean Energy
Aug 28, 2014: Five Reasons Verizon Is Tripling Its Solar Power
Aug 27, 2014: Crystal Solar and NREL Team Up to Cut Costs
Aug 27, 2014: GE Study: Wind Power Can Improve Resiliency of Electrical Grids
Aug 27, 2014: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind: A Surveillance Solution to Protect our Country’s Wind Farms
Aug 27, 2014: SolarCity, SunEdison, First Solar Are Sky-High but That Could End Tomorrow
Aug 27, 2014: Verizon Set To Be Largest Solar Producing Communication Company
Aug 27, 2014: US Renewable Electrical Generation Hits 14.3 Percent
Aug 26, 2014: Apex: Wind Farm Could Be Built Even If Land at Corpus Christie Is Annexed
Aug 26, 2014: How Big Government And Cronyism Are Slowing The Growth Of Solar In The South
Aug 26, 2014: Should We “Green Up” Dirty Energy Technologies?
Aug 25, 2014: DOE Announces Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project Awards
Aug 26, 2014: Leaf Solar Power Partners with LightStream to Bring Financing to U.S. Residential Customers
Aug 26, 2014: Retail vs Wholesale Energy Pricing: 1 Reason It’s Easy For Rooftop Solar To Be Cost Effective
Aug 25, 2014: Solar Power Starts To Make Sense For Business As Prices Fall
Aug 25, 2014: Verizon To Invest $40M To Triple Its Solar Power Capacity
Aug 25, 2014: 10 Facts About Wind Power
Aug 25, 2014: Geothermal Power Steaming Over Wind And Solar Energies
Aug 22, 2014: McAllen, Texas Deploys 8 New Solar-Powered Bus Stop Shelters
Aug 22, 2014: Solar Power Shedding ‘Ugly’ Image in Houston
Aug 22, 2014: GE celebrates new Fuel Cells facility
Aug 22, 2014: GE Captures 90% U.S. Wind Power Market Share In 2013
Aug 22, 2014: U.S. Wind Energy Industry Is Doing Quite Well Too (It’s Not All About Solar)
Aug 22, 2014: Courts Are Systematically Rejecting Claims About Wind Turbine Syndrome
Aug 22, 2014: Clean Solar Makes the Solar Power World 2014 Top US Solar Contractors List
Aug 22, 2014: The Dark Side of Google’s Solar Project
Aug 22, 2014: Bird Deaths From Solar Plant Exaggerated By Some Media Sources
Aug 22, 2014: Researchers Develop Transparent Solar Concentrator to Cover Windows, Electronics
Emerging Technologies
Aug 28, 2014: Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors That Use Radioactive Waste Materials As Fuel
Aug 28, 2014: FuelCell Energy’s Cost Effective and Efficient Carbon Capture Progresses Under U.S. Department of Energy Program
Aug 27, 2014: Texas A&M Chemist Pursues Natural Approach to Hydrogen Energy
Aug 25, 2014: California Cleantech Startup Says It Can Make Dollar-A-Gallon Gasoline From Natural Gas — Not Oil
Outside Texas
Aug 28, 2014: Accounting for the Expanding Carbon Shadow from Coal-Burning Plants
Aug 26, 2014: Special Support for Nuclear Power Operators at Odds with Market Liberalization
Aug 26, 2014: Hearings Planned After Call For Nuke-Plant Closure
Aug 25, 2014: To Prevent Long Power Outages, Communities Look to Microgrids
Other News
Aug 27, 2014: TXI Power Company Relinquishing Texas REP Certificate
Aug 27, 2014: FPL Affiliates File Changes to it’s Texas PGC Registrations
Aug 27, 2014: Reliant Receives PUCT Approval for New Trade Names
Aug 26, 2014: Direct Energy Business Launches New Integrated Website
Aug 27, 2014: TriEagle Energy DBA Power House Energy Agrees to Fine by PUCT Related to Renewable Energy Credits
Aug 27, 2014: Direct Energy Business Files Update of Officers and Directors
Aug 27, 2014: Iron Energy Updates Contact Information with PUCT
Aug 27, 2014: Direct Energy Brings Comfort & Control Plan with Nest to More States
Aug 27, 2014: Midland TXU Customer Feels She Was Overcharged
Aug 28, 2014: Amerex Energy Services Hires Three Retail Market Veterans
Aug 27, 2014: LCRA Board To Look At Water Management Plan
Aug 27, 2014: President of Supply Management Departs Texas Retail Provider
Aug 27, 2014: EnerNOC Withdraws Aggregator Registration
Aug 27, 2014: Revised List of Providers of Last Resort Filed
Aug 27, 2014: Grandview Windfarm Files to be REC Generator
Aug 26, 2014: The Futuristic Vision That’s Driven Tesla’s Value Above $30 Billion
Aug 26, 2014: Texas REP Promoting Flat Bill Plan with “Unpredictable Sweepstakes”
Aug 25, 2014: Energy Boom Shapes Texas’ Lone Competitive House Race
Aug 25, 2014: Officials Stress Water Conservation In The Valley
Aug 25, 2014: Retail Supplier Names New CFO
Aug 21, 2014: Despite Delay in Vote, Little Change Expected in Proposed LCRA Water Plan
Aug 24, 2014: A Way Texas Can Grow While Being Green
Aug 24, 2014: Thirsty For Oil, Energy Companies Wasting Less Valuable Byproduct: Natural Gas
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For the Week of 8/15/14 — 8/22/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Aug 21, 2014: Oncor Seeks New Substation
Aug 19, 2014: Energy Future Keeps a Lid on Questions About Solvency
Aug 19, 2014: Titus County Appraisal District rejects Luminant offer
Generation Adequacy
Aug 22, 2014: Dynegy to Buy Power Assets for $6.25 Billion
Aug 22, 2014: Dynegy To Buy Assets From Duke, Energy Capital Partners
Aug 20, 2014: PJM’s Solution to Capacity Non-Performance: Create New Product
Aug 18, 2014: ERCOT Delays Day-Ahead Market Results Following Server Issues
Aug 18, 2014: Texas Officials Blast New Pollution Rules For Power Plants
Aug 15, 2014: Coal Still Is Top Source of Electricity in U.S.; Where Does Your State Stand?
Aug 15, 2014: On Climate Rules, Texas Regulators Look Beyond Litigation
Aug 15, 2014: Puzzled, Befuddled And Deeply Pessimistic
Aug 15, 2014: Wind Coalition Makes Its Case To Texas Regulators Mulling Over New EPA Plan
Aug 15, 2014: Reasons For Projected Natural Gas-Fired Generation Growth Vary By Region
Headlines
Aug 21, 2014: US Government Sells 400,000 Acres Offshore Texas
Aug 21, 2014: State Regulators Approve Radioactive Waste Dump Expansion
Aug 21, 2014: EPA’s Ozone Rule Threatens Texas Jobs And Families
Aug 21, 2014: Groups Try To Block Nuclear Regulator’s Vote, Citing Conflict Of Interest
Aug 21, 2014: EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Aug 21, 2014: King Coal is Soon to be Dethroned
Aug 21, 2014: My Microgrid’s Bigger Than Yours
Aug 20, 2014: Direct Energy Considers More Moves in Bundling Strategy
Aug 20, 2014: Natural Gas As A Vehicle Fuel Blows Past Expectations In Texas
Aug 20, 2014: Choose Energy Reaches Major Milestone Sourcing 2.2 Billion Kilowatt-Hours of Energy for Customers
Aug 20, 2014: NRC Awards FY14 Nuclear Education Grants
Aug 19, 2014: Texas’ Nuclear Waste Dump Poised to Get Wiggle Room
Aug 19, 2014: UHD Receives $150,000 Grant from NRC for Nuclear Power Certificates
Aug 19, 2014: CPS Warns Of Scammers After Uniform Theft
Aug 19, 2014: Entergy : Disconnects Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant From Grid
Aug 19, 2014: Here Is How Much You Spend On Electricity In Each State
Aug 18, 2014: NRG Energy’s Price Fall Barely Arrested by Acquisition Move
Aug 18, 2014: Calpine Reports Net Income For Q2, Provides Annual Outlook
Aug 18, 2014: FERC Grid-Planning Rule Survives Legal Challenge, Setting Stage for Transmission Upgrades
Aug 15, 2014: NRECA Challenges Costly Rate Change by FERC
Aug 18, 2014: The Argument for Why Utilities Should Give Up Operational Control of the Distribution Grid
Aug 15, 2014: LCRA: Extra Charge Is Not A Mistake
Aug 15, 2014: U.S. Court of Appeals’ FERC 1000 Decision a Big Step Forward for America’s Clean Energy Economy
Aug 15, 2014: Texas Low-Level Nuclear Waste Site Could Grow
Aug 15, 2014: Cross Texas Transmission – Alternative Energy – Deals and Alliances Profile
Aug 15, 2014: Green Mountain Energy Achieves Top Score for Texas Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power
Power Grid Security
Aug 19, 2014: Systems at Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked Multiple Times: Report
Aug 15, 2014: More Harsh Winters Could Spell Disaster For The Electrical Grid
Renewable Power
Aug 21, 2014: Solar Power Shedding ‘Ugly’ Image in Houston
Aug 21, 2014: Smart Tattoo Generates Electricity From Sweat, Could Power Future Wearable Computers
Aug 21, 2014: NRG Energy Inc (NRG) Claims Its New Plant Is Not Threatening Avian Survival
Aug 20, 2014: EPA CO2 Rules A Huge Boon To The Wind Power Industry
Aug 20, 2014: America’s Great Solar Boom–In 6 Encouraging Charts
Aug 20, 2014: US Wind Energy Cost Falls To ‘All-Time Low’ Of 2.5c/Kwh
Aug 20, 2014: Three-Quarters of Small Wind Turbines Produced in U.S. are Sold to other Countries
Aug 20, 2014: How Much Does Rooftop Solar Power Cost? Grid Parity Here or Coming in More Than Half of U.S. States
Aug 20, 2014: Renewable Energy Provides 100% Of New U.S. Power In July
Aug 20, 2014: Solar Energy Less Dangerous to Birds Than Cats or Cars
Aug 18, 2014: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wind Power
Aug 19, 2014: Study: Price Of Wind Energy In U.S. At All-Time Low
Aug 19, 2014: U.S. Wind Capacity To Double By 2020
Aug 19, 2014: 49 Plants That Could Make Biofuel Less Troublesome
Aug 18, 2014: DOE Promotes Wind Power In Reports
Aug 18, 2014: Energy Department Reports Highlight Strength of U.S. Wind Energy Industry
Aug 18, 2014: Explosive US Solar Power Growth & Jobs
Aug 18, 2014: Solar Boom Driving First Global Panel Shortage Since 2006
Aug 18, 2014: Booming Rooftop Solar Power Suffers Growing Pains
Aug 18, 2014: States Should Not Take Ohio’s Lead On Freezing Renewable Energy Standards
Aug 18, 2014: Emerging Solar Plants Scorch Birds in Mid-Air
Aug 18, 2014: Andalay Solar Partners with Highpower for Commercializing Viable Energy Storage Systems
Aug 16, 2014: Texas Law Lets Developers Ban Solar Panels While Subdivisions Are Growing
Aug 17, 2014: Plans For Texas’ First Offshore Wind Farm Abandoned
Aug 16, 2014: Why Geothermal Energy Is The New Fracking
Aug 15, 2014: Solar Power Solutions
Aug 15, 2014: Geothermal Industry Asserts Technology as Beneficial & Affordable
Other News
Aug 22, 2014: Proton Energy’s REP Certificate Revoked
Aug 22, 2014: Texas REP Files Complaint Against Utility Over Inaccurate Settlement Data, Seeks ERCOT Resettlement
Aug 22, 2014: Texas REP Offering $40 Incentive If It Can’t Beat Commercial Rate
Aug 21, 2014: Three Retail Suppliers Rank in Top 100 of Inc. 500 List
Aug 20, 2014: Royse City Council Discusses Issues With Oncor
Aug 20, 2014: Fluor Celebrates 30 Years Working for Luminant in Texas
Aug 20, 2014: CASA Aggregator Application Dismissed
Aug 19, 2014: Senator Hinojosa: South Texas Expects To Flourish From Mexico Energy Reform
Aug 19, 2014: New Drought Restrictions Headline LCRA Meeting
Aug 19, 2014: Texas Research Groups To Study Clean Vehicle Technology
Aug 19, 2014: Texas Rep Launches Service in New Territory
Aug 19, 2014: Texas Rep Launches New Bundled Products, Offerings
Aug 19, 2014: Start-Up Texas REP Launches Service
Aug 18, 2014: Z Champion and Associates Files for Aggregator Registration
Aug 18, 2014: Green Pastures Wind I Files for PGC and REC Registration
Aug 18, 2014: North American Power Announces Date for Texas Market Entry
Aug 18, 2014: Mexico’s Pemex Poised To Import Light Crude From U.S.
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For the Week of 8/8/14 — 8/15/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Aug 14, 2014: Creditors Want Answers From IRS on Energy Future’s Restructuring
Aug 14, 2014: Junior Creditors To Investigate Energy Future
Aug 14, 2014: Deal With Luminant On Property Value Appraisal Awaits Approval
Aug 13, 2014: Judge Approves Probe By Energy Future Holdings Junior Creditors
Aug 12, 2014: Uncertainty Over Oncor’s Future Ownership Constrains Additional Upgrades
Aug 11, 2014: Energy Future Seeks to Keep Some Manager Bonuses Secret
Aug 11, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Executives Could Get $18M In Bonuses
Aug 8, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Should Wait on New Panel: Trustee
Generation Adequacy
Aug 14, 2014: PUCT Chairman Donna Nelson Wants To Keep ERCOT Control In Austin, Not D.C.
Aug 12, 2014: NRG Energy CEO Crane Sees ‘Survival Of The Fittest’ For Coal Plants
Aug 10, 2014: PUCT Anderson’a Presentation on Operational Reliability, Success of Texas Market-Based System
Headlines
Aug 14, 2014: Texas Appellate Court Says Utilities Must Provide “Itemized Receipts” In Rate Hikes
Aug 14, 2014: Behind The Scenes — And The Deals
Aug 14, 2014: States Question Legality Of Clean Power Proposal
Aug 14, 2014: Energy Giant NRG Acquires Goal Zero For On-the-Go Consumer Power
Aug 14, 2014: NRG Energy Buys Solar Start-Up Goal Zero
Aug 14, 2014: NRG Plugs Into Personal Power With Goal Zero Acquisition
Aug 13, 2014: It’s War! What Are Texas’ Strengths Against Four Contenders For Tesla’s $5B Gigafactory?
Aug 13, 2014: Governors Show Contrasting Styles In Tesla Quest
Aug 12, 2014: NRG to Shutter, Repower Illinois Coal Units in Modernization Bid
Aug 12, 2014: $1 Billion Electricity Line To Ensure Energy Stability In Rio Grande Valley
Aug 12, 2014: New Retail Provider Ranks Highest in Texas Customer Satisfaction, J.D. Power Rankings for 8 Other States Released
Aug 12, 2014: NRG Offers $100,000 for Referral of New Executive to Run Its Retail Business
Aug 12, 2014: PNM Resources Management at Power, Utilities, MLP and Pipeline Conference
Aug 12, 2014: Why Direct Energy is selling Ontario assets: Roseman
Aug 11, 2014: Direct Energy to Offer SmartThings’ Smart Home Starter Kits to Texas Customers
Aug 10, 2014: Greenville Electric Utility System Intends To Raise Electric Rates
Aug 10, 2014: Two Austin Attorneys Seeking Radioactive Waste Deal
Aug 10, 2014: Many Groups Interested In CPS Energy’s New Headquarters
Power Grid Security
Aug 14, 2014: GE Survey Results: Millions of Americans Willing to Pay $10 More on Monthly Bill for Reliable Grid
Renewable Power
Aug 14, 2014: Solar Power Gets Hot, Hot, Hot
Aug 14, 2014: Wind Farm ‘Needs 700 Times More Land’ Than Fracking Site To Produce Same Energy
Aug 14, 2014: Renewable Energy Expert: We Don’t Need Power Storage, Just Dance Lessons
Aug 14, 2014: Why Automakers Will Build More Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
Aug 14, 2014: Geothermal: Technology Beneficial & Affordable
Aug 14, 2014: Why Are These U.S. States Fighting Solar Power?
Aug 13, 2014: Top 10: U.S. States with Installed Wind Capacity
Aug 13, 2014: Military’s Energy Strategy: Leading the Way in Technology Transfer for Energy Efficiency
Aug 13, 2014: Pika Energy Selected By NREL To Drive Down Cost Of Small Wind Power
Aug 13, 2014: Concentrated Solar Power Market Will Reach 8,674.7m In 2020
Aug 13, 2014: New Solar + Storage Microgrid Project to Provide Resilient Power
Aug 13, 2014: Outlook For Global Solar Is Getting Brighter
Aug 12, 2014: Clean Air And Energy Make Economic Sense
Aug 12, 2014: 322kW Solar Carport for Veterans Healthcare Center
Aug 12, 2014: Kohl’s Solar Power Portfolio Moves Forward with Solar Tree Chargers
Aug 12, 2014: NRG Yield, Inc. Closes Acquisition of Largest Wind Farm in North America
Aug 11, 2014: Austin Faces Bumpy Road To Carbon-Neutral Fleet
Aug 11, 2014: Testing renewable energy gains steam at West Texas institute
Aug 9, 2014: Texas Becomes Ground Zero For Surge In Wind Power
Aug 6, 2014: Los Angeles ‘Cool Roof’ Rebates Reduce Roofing Costs and Save Energy
Aug 8, 2014: What’s Driving Millions Of Dollars Back Into Energy Efficiency?
Emerging Technologies
Aug 11, 2014: New Equipment Detects Trouble On Power Lines
Aug 10, 2014: GE Announces First Data Lake Approach for Industrial Internet to Better Access, Analyze and Store Industrial-Strength Big Data
Outside Texas
Aug 14, 2014: Reliability and Transmission in an Age of Change: A Grid Planners Guide
Aug 14, 2014: Traders Profit as Power Grid Is Overworked
Aug 13, 2014: Last Of Japan’s Nuclear Power Plant Operators Applies For Safety Checks
Aug 12, 2014: Will Tesla Model S Lose Consumer Reports’ Top Recommendation?
Aug 11, 2014: What Mexico’s Energy Reform Means for Big Oil
Aug 12, 2014: Direct Energy to Pay Fine, Disgorgement Under FERC Settlement
Aug 11, 2014: DTE Energy Unveils DTE Insight Energy Efficiency App
Aug 10, 2014: Mexico Dreams Face Test After Opening Energy To Investors
Aug 10, 2014: U.S. Company To Aid Cleanup Of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Aug 8, 2014: Energy Industry Big Spender for Big Data
Aug 9, 2014: Australia Faces Unprecedented Oversupply Of Energy, No New Energy Generation Needed For 10 Years: Report
Other News
Aug 14, 2014: HFE-Operating LLC Files for Aggregator Registration
Aug 14, 2014: Major Oak Power, LLC Files for Power Generation Company Registration
Aug 14, 2014: Luminant Releases Statement On ETX Coal Mine Incident With Injuries
Aug 14, 2014: Oncor Explains How to Spot an Imposter
Aug 14, 2014: NRG “Realigning” Compassion Energy Brand After Acquiring Cirro, Compassion Brand Not Accepting New Customers
Aug 14, 2014: Texas REP Reports Wider Loss
Aug 14, 2014: LCRA Dispatches Employee To Wichita Falls To Examine Evaporation Technology
Aug 14, 2014: AEP Names Reis Vice President, Audit Services
Aug 13, 2014: Texas REP Bumps Up Referral Bonus to $75
Aug 13, 2014: Toyota Execs Get The Lay Of The Land In North Texas
Aug 13, 2014: Sherbino I Wind Farm Files Registration as PGC
Aug 13, 2014: Texas REP Receives Approval to Use Trade Name Now Power, Two Additional D/B/A’s
Aug 13, 2014: Texas REP Launches Redesigned Website
Aug 12, 2014: New Rules Proposed On Eminent Domain Process For New Pipelines
Aug 12, 2014: Texas Considers New Oil, Gas Pipeline Rules
Aug 12, 2014: San Antonio Mulls $3 Billion Water Supply Project
Aug 11, 2014: Walzem Solar Files for Renewable Energy Credit Certification
Aug 11, 2014: Almost 3K Nacogdoches Co. Oncor Customers Lost Power In Storm
Aug 11, 2014: Texas-Mexico Universities Seek Partnerships To Train Energy Professioners
Aug 11, 2014: A New Environmental Dispute Brews Between Feds And Texas Over Water
Aug 12, 2014: Large Retail Supplier Names Market Veteran As New CEO
Aug 11, 2014: Centerpoint Notice of Violation Final Order Issued
Aug 11, 2014: Texas-New Mexico Power Notice of Violation Final Order Issued
Aug 11, 2014: Texas REP Offering “Membership” Plans That Offer Lower Rate, Benefits In Exchange for Membership Fee
Aug 11, 2014: Retail Energy Ad Roundup: What We’re Seeing
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For the Week of 8/1/14 — 8/8/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Aug 8, 2014: Luminant Appraisal Agreement Imminent
Aug 5, 2014: Here’s Why TXU Is Gaining, Not Losing, Customers During Bankruptcy
Aug 4, 2014: TPG Capital Said To Be Raising $10 Billion — That’s What Failure Will Do For You
Aug 4, 2014: TXU Parent Gains Retail Customers During Bankruptcy
Generation Adequacy
Aug 8, 2014: New Power Plant On Its Way To Texas Grimes County
Aug 8, 2014: Price of Wind Energy Goes Down in Texas
Aug 6, 2014: Siemens Gets Nationwide Test for Demand Response Software
Aug 5, 2014: Pattern Development Acquires Logan’s Gap Wind Project in Texas
Aug 5, 2014: $600M Transmission Project Splits Texas Power Industry
Aug 5, 2014: Eastern U.S. Spot Power Drops as Demand Matches Forecasts
Aug 4, 2014: Siemens to Provide Direct Energy with Integrated Demand Response Solution
Aug 4, 2014: Study Points to High Power Demand from Future Electric Cars
Aug 1, 2014: EPA Green Lights Lufkin Plant
Aug 4, 2014: Current PJM Capacity Market Performance Standards Do Not “Ensure Operational Reliability”
Aug 4, 2014: FERC Staff Seek to Subpoena Information From Marketers for Investigation
Headlines
Aug 8, 2014: NRG Retail Adjusted EBITDA Up on “Sustained” Margins
Aug 8, 2014: How Texas Can Live With Lower Carbon Emissions
Aug 8, 2014: EIA: Energy, Mining Are 11 Percent Of Texas Economy
Aug 8, 2014: Top Ten Things Learned at San Angelo’s West Texas Legislative Summit
Aug 8, 2014: Texas County of 95 Sees Opportunity in Toxic Nuclear Waste
Aug 6, 2014: Texas Struggles to Launch Energy Efficiency Program
Aug 6, 2014: El Paso Electric Profit Increased 3 Percent To $30.1 Million In 2nd Quarter
Aug 6, 2014: Sam Houston Electric Co-op reflects on 75 years
Aug 6, 2014: NRG Energy Swings To Loss As Costs Rise
Aug 6, 2014: Power Firm NRG To Close Plant, Cut Jobs, As Part Of Pollution Reduction Plan
Aug 6, 2014: Constellation Energy Partners Schedules Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2014 Results
Aug 5, 2014: Bryan Texas Utilities Educates The Community Of Electrical Hazards
Aug 5, 2014: Few Comment On City Council’s Proposed Tax Rate, El Paso Electric Co. Fee Increase
Aug 5, 2014: NRG Yield Operating LLC Announces Closing of $500.0 Million “Green Bond” Due 2024
Aug 5, 2014: EPA’s Proposed Emissions Limits Drawing Debate
Aug 5, 2014: Politicians, Texas Companies Still Figuring Out The New Rules For Carbon Dioxide
Aug 4, 2014: In LCRA Suits With New Braunfels And Georgetown, Far Different Outcomes
Aug 4, 2014: NRG Talks Green Energy While Delivering Big Profits to Investors
Aug 4, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Announces Redemption of Its Outstanding 8.50% Senior Notes Due 2019
Aug 1, 2014: Nevada Groundbreaking Indicates That State Leads Texas In Race For Tesla Battery Factory
Aug 2, 2014: Nevada No Lock For Tesla Plant Despite Groundwork
Aug 1, 2014: Calpine Tops Views on Profit, Revenue, and Reaffirms Guidance
Aug 4, 2014: Is Calpine Thinking of Starting a Retail Supplier?
Aug 4, 2014: Dynegy Rolling Out New Name for Retail Business
Aug 1, 2014: Cleaning Up Coal Not Greenest Option, But Key For Energy Diversity
Aug 3, 2014: Under Revamped GreenChoice, Austin Customers No Longer Tied To Wind Prices
Aug 3, 2014: As Renewable Energy Grows, Wind and Solar Pull Ahead of Hydropower in Texas
Aug 1, 2014: Texas Better Off Embracing EPA Rule
Aug 1, 2014: EPA Coal Plant Emissions Limits Challenged by 12 States
Aug 4, 2014: Rule-Making Petition, Aimed at Limiting Green House Gas Emission, Against TCEQ Halted
Aug 3, 2014: Texas A&M Won’t Lose License Over Unattended Nuclear Reactor
Aug 1, 2014: Tensions Stir At EPA Hearings On New Emission Rules
Renewable Power
Aug 8, 2014: Solar Power Can Compete In Utility Market
Aug 8, 2014: Solar Project Planned For SpaceX
Aug 5, 2014: Texas Joins Top Ranks For Solar Construction
Aug 5, 2014: San Antonio’s South Side A Solar Incubator
Aug 5, 2014: FuelCell Energy Inc Strengthening Financing Ties With NRG
Aug 5, 2014: Texas Food Pantry Partners With Local Solar Company
Aug 5, 2014: First Solar Builds the Highest Efficiency Thin Film PV Cell on Record
Aug 4, 2014: 400 MW Solar PV Project Alamo Advances: Three Of Seven Construction Phases Complete; Fourth Ramping Up
Aug 3, 2014: Texas As Wind Country? State Feeds Renewable Boom
Aug 3, 2014: Solar Energy Just Powered a Race Across the Country
Aug 1, 2014: US Renewable Energy Chief Confident About Future
Aug 3, 2014: Military Saves Energy, Money On The Home Front
Emerging Technologies
Aug 5, 2014: New Gas-To-Liquids Plant Coming To Houston
Aug 4, 2014: Biofuels Power Corp Announces Plans to Build Gas-to-Liquids Pilot Plant in Houston, Texas
Aug 4, 2014: Bio2Electric, LLC Establishes EcoCatalytic Technologies to Develop New Catalyst Technology
Aug 1, 2014: Carbon Captured From Power Plants Potential Key To Future Oil Production
Outside Texas
Aug 8, 2014: NRG To Upgrade Pollution Control In Waukegan; Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough
Aug 5, 2014: Xcel Energy to Participate in Panel Discussions at Goldman Sachs Conference
Aug 5, 2014: Audi energy: New Sustainability Program Will Add to e-tron Experience
Aug 4, 2014: California, Mexico Partner To Promote Low Carbon Economy
Aug 1, 2014: Tesla Announces Plan To Boost Production In 2015
Other News
Aug 9, 2014: NRG Open to Vets of High Tech, Consumer Goods, Cable/Telecom to Lead New NRG Home
Aug 6, 2014: Reliant Adds New DBAs
Aug 6, 2014: Energy Utility Group, LLC to Become Aggregator
Aug 6, 2014: Start-up Infuse Energy LLC Receives Texas REP Certificate
Aug 6, 2014: Texas Lures Elon Musk’s Rocket Launch Facility, Thanks To Location
Aug 6, 2014: Pipelines And Power Lines Must Go Somewhere
Aug 4, 2014: FERC Staff Accuses Powhatan as Bay Moves Up
Aug 5, 2014: Agera Energy to Acquire Glacial Energy Assets
Aug 5, 2014: El Paso Electric Settlement Agreement Filed for Notice of Violation Related to Reliability
Aug 5, 2014: TXU Energy Mobile Milestones Mark Easier-Than-Ever Customer Experience
Aug 5, 2014: Retail Supplier Surpasses 100,000 Customer Threshold
Aug 4, 2014: Retail Provider Offering $1,000 Bonus for Referrals
Aug 3, 2014: Ohio Water Crisis a Warning for Texas, Other States
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For the Week of 7/25/14 — 8/1/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
July 30, 2014: Chris Burls Named EFH’s Director of Investor Relations
July 26, 2014: To Land Oncor, Even the Hunts Need Help
Generation Adequacy
July 30, 2014: NextEra Energy Resources Announces Wind Generation Plan For Construction Near Lubbock
July 30, 2014: ERCOT Says Electric Demand Is Down. How Cool Is That?
July 28, 2014: New IHS CERA Study Underscores Need to Preserve Existing Nuclear Energy Plants
July 28, 2014: The Nuclear Industry Isn’t Planning For The Next Unthinkable Catastrophe
July 26, 2014: FERC Seeks Comments on Proposed Rulemaking Regulations for Market Based Rates of Electric Energy, Capacity and Ancillary Services
July 26, 2014: OSHA Issues Interim Enforcement Policy on Electric Power Generation Rule
July 26, 2014: Promises Of Easier Nuclear Power Plant Construction Fall Short In New Round Of Building
Headlines
July 31, 2014: Exelon’s Constellation Business Acquiring Integrys Energy to Expand its Competitive Retail Energy Supply Business
July 31, 2014: Exelon Revenue Falls Amid Lower Energy Prices, Results Also Benefit From Constellation Energy Nuclear Group Integration
July 31, 2014: Constellation Sees Expanding Retail Margins
July 31, 2014: Centrica, Parent Co. of Direct Energy, First-Half Profits Fall 35% But Revenue Increases by 15 %
Aug 1, 2014: Direct Energy Seeing Higher C&I Margins
July 31, 2014: Direct Energy Customer Count up 3%
July 31, 2014: Nevada, Not Texas, Gets First Nod From Tesla
July 31, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces Quarterly Dividend
July 31, 2014: Xcel Creates Two Transmission-Only Units
July 30, 2014: Corporate America Clean-Energy Lead Urged by NRG CEO
July 30, 2014: FuelCell Energy Announces Strategic Financing Agreements With NRG Energy
July 29, 2014: TXU Energy Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary of Brighten iThermostat, Highlights Consumer Study
July 29, 2014: Entergy Profit Rises, Led By Wholesale Commodities Strength
July 29, 2014: Houston’s S Waste Management Turns Focus From Energy To Waste With $1.9 Billion Deal
July 29, 2014: Exelon Corporation Declares Dividend
July 29, 2014: 4 Ways Texas Could Win Big Under New Climate Change Rules
July 29, 2014: Coal Burns Brighter as Utilities Switch From Natural Gas
July 29, 2014: White House Says Delay Will Raise Climate Cost
July 29, 2014: Direct Energy Enters US Residential Solar Market Through Acquisition Of Astrum Solar
July 29, 2014: Spark Energy, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering
July 28, 2014: Report: Improper Staffing at A&M Nuclear Reactor Leads to Short Shut
July 28, 2014: ABB Replaces HVDC Link in Texas
July 28, 2014: Fracking Powers Demand For AEP In 2Q
July 28, 2014: Goldman Sachs Reiterates “Conviction-Buy” Rating for NRG Energy
July 28, 2014: EPA Heads Into Battle On Climate Rule
July 25, 2014: Texas, Gas States Biggest Winners Under EPA Carbon Rules -Report
July 25, 2014: The Biggest Winners of New EPA Rules? States That Oppose Them
July 24, 2014: Does Rick Perry Act Contrary To Texas Interests On Carbon Regs?
July 27, 2014: Texas Leads In Emissions, Fights Change
July 25, 2014: American Electric Power Company’s (AEP) CEO Nick Akins on Q2 2014 Results
July 27, 2014: NRG Energy Given “Buy” Rating at Jefferies Group
July 26, 2014: DTE Energy reports Second Quarter 2014 Results
Renewable Power
July 31, 2014: Is Texas the Greenest State? By One Measure, Maybe
July 31, 2014: Two Solar-Powered Charging Stations Installed On UT Austin Campus
July 31, 2014: NRG Buys $35 Million In Fuelcell Energy Stock
July 30, 2014: Ethanol Fuels A Clash In Corn Country
July 29, 2014: The Truth About Wind’s Back-Up ‘Burden’
July 29, 2014: Direct Energy buys Howard County based Astrum Solar
July 28, 2014: Most Solar Panels Are Facing The Wrong Direction, Say Scientists
July 28, 2014: Renewable Energy Accounts For Almost 40% Of New Domestic Power Capacity Installed In The US
July 28, 2014: Greenpeace And Amazon In War Of Words Over Clean Power
July 28, 2014: Inside the Huge Solar Farm That Powers Apple’s iCloud
July 28, 2014: Report Ranks Electric Utility Companies’ Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency Performance
July 26, 2014: Wind’s Integration Costs Are Lower Than Those For Other Energy Sources
July 26, 2014: US Adds Further Heavy Duties To Solar Panels Made In China; Taiwan Hit Hard
July 26, 2014: U.S. Finds Chinese, Taiwanese Firms Dumped Solar Products
July 26, 2014: Chevron Tests Solar Technologies
July 26, 2014: What Do Solar Decathlon Team Members Do After Competing?
Emerging Technologies
July 29, 2014: Let’s Talk: Plug-In Electric Vehicles and Energy Companies Are About to Start Communicating via the Cloud
Outside Texas
July 30, 2014: Stockton Best Site For Tesla Plant
July 29, 2014: Coal Miners Clash With Ski Operators Over EPA’s Coal Rule
July 28, 2014: NRG eVgo Partnership with BMW Expands Access to Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Network
July 28, 2014: Mexico Energy Reform Looms
Other News
July 31, 2014: TxDOT Plans to Research Self-Driving Cars and Other Futuristic Tech
July 31, 2014: FERC Approve Texas Natural Gas Export Project
July 31, 2014: Utility Customers’ Mobile Usage on the Rise
July 30, 2014: Oncor’s 3 Tips To Capture Customer Attention Online
July 30, 2014: Texas Paves Way In Oilfield Water Recycling, Spreads The Word
July 30, 2014: Texas Court Reinstates Multi-Million Dollar Judgment Against Mexico’s Oil Union And Its Leader Romero Deschamps
July 29, 2014: The Story Of Texas Begins With Respecting Private Property
July 29, 2014: Four Guys and a Boat Tackle a Texas-Sized Water Problem
July 29, 2014: Texas REP Launches Critical Peak Rebate (With Automation), Promotes With $3,000 Challenge
July 29, 2014: Texas Retail Energy Shopping Website Allowing Customers to “Name Their Own Price”
July 29, 2014: Texas REP Signs Definitive Funding Agreement To Expand Nationally
July 28, 2014: LCRA To Crack Down On Those Who Pump Water Illegally
July 28, 2014: Grandview Wind Farm Changes Ownership
July 28, 2014: Power Collective Files for Aggregator Registration
July 28, 2014: New Texas REP Offering Critical Peak Rebate Program, Pays $1/kWh
July 24, 2014: Property Tax Agreement Reached for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant
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For the Week of 7/18/14 — 7/27/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
July 24, 2014: Energy Future Seeks Longer Bankruptcy As It Scraps Plan
July 24, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future Holdings to auction stake in Oncor, with interested bidders lining up
July 24, 2014: Energy Future Invites Bids for Oncor Unit as Plan Dropped
July 24, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Drops Financing Plan In Bankruptcy Case
July 24, 2014: EFH Officially Dumps Restructuring Plan
July 24, 2014: Energy Future Scraps Restructuring Pact, Deal Talks Continues
July 24, 2014: TXU Parent Scraps Restructuring Plan in Favor of Court Supervised Bidding Process
July 21, 2014: FPL Parent Looks To Expand In Texas
July 23, 2014: EFH Noteholders Denied 3rd Circ. Hearing On $4B Debt Deal
July 23, 2014: Luminant Reaches Agreement To Lower Taxable Value Again
July 21, 2014: Dallas’ Hunt Consolidated Hires Former Energy Future Holdings Executive
July 21, 2014: Milam County Officials Say Mineral Rights May Make Up For Luminant Tax Loss
July 18, 2014: Energy Future Prepares To Scrap Bankruptcy Plan
July 18, 2014: Restructuring Plan On The Ropes, EFH Warns Judge
Generation Adequacy
July 24, 2014: Study Warns U.S. Power Grid Will Become Too Reliant On Gas
July 23, 2014: Texas Is Wired for Wind Power, and More Farms Plug In
July 23, 2014: Nuclear Energy Beats The Heat In Summer
July 22, 2014: FGE Power Announces Strategic Partnership With Starwood Energy Group To Finance And Build 1,500MW FGE Texas Project
July 22, 2014: NTE Energy Secures Investment for Three Natural Gas-Fired Generation Projects Totaling Up to 1,470 MW, including a Texas Project
July 22, 2014: TXU Energy Tells Businesses: Demand Response Benefits Are in Easy Reach
July 18, 2014: ERCOT Clears $46 Million Of CRRs In Auction For First Half Of 2016
July 18, 2014: Texas Adds More Wind Power To The Grid
July 18, 2014: Permits Withdrawn For Texas Off-Shore Wind Farm
Headlines
July 24, 2014: Proposed RRC Changes Revive Eminent Domain Debate
July 23, 2014: Appeal By Former PEC Exec Rejected
July 24, 2014: Texas Man Makes Creative Coolers To Fight The Heat
July 24, 2014: Direct Energy To Sell Ontario Business For More Than $500M
July 23, 2014: Texas Jury Awards Municipal Utility $30 Million
July 23, 2014: Nacogdoches Co. Commissioners Mulling How To Spend $22K Refund From Electric Coop
July 23, 2014: States Against E.P.A. Rule on Carbon Pollution Would Gain, Study Finds
July 23, 2013: EPA regulation flies in face of Constitution
July 23, 2014: Texas Slams EPA Website that Compares State Pollution Enforcement
July 23, 2014: White House Names NRC Picks
July 23, 2014: EPA to Cut CO2 from Power Plants
July 23, 2014: More Than 120 Groups Report Lobbying Congress on Existing Power Plant Regulations
July 23, 2014:Smart Grid: USDA Comes To Aid (Again) Of US Electric Grid
July 22, 2014: Jury Hands NBU A Win Against LCRA
July 22, 2014: CPS Energy’s Commercial Energy Calculator From Apogee Helps Businesses Run the Numbers and Keep the Savings
July 21, 2014: Jurors Handed Contract Dispute Pitting NBU Against LCRA
July 21, 2014: Xcel Energy announces $106.7 million investment for new substations in Texas
July 21, 2014: U.S. Nuke Plant Operator Entangled In New Scandle
July 21, 2014: Credit Suisse to Exit Commodities, Posts Big Quarter Loss
July 21, 2014: Texas Court Rules PURA Allows TDU, REP to Share Brand
July 18, 2014: Why the Largest Microgrid in the U.S. is in Austin
July 18, 2014: Attack On Wind Energy Is Hot Air
July 18, 2014: DOJ Sues Entergy for Not Reporting Affirmative-Action Compliance
July 18, 2014: Formula Sun: Solar Racing Comes to Austin
Power Grid Security
July 24, 2014: Al Qaeda Targeting U.S. Infrastructure for Digital 9/11
July 22, 2014: Modern Electric Grid Fighting Cyber Vulnerabilities
Renewable Power
July 24, 2014: Wind Power’s Set For A Comeback: World Capacity To More Than Double By 2018
July 24, 2014: Wind Power Found To Be Cheaper Than Either Natural Gas Or Coal
July 24, 2014: Google Offering $1 Million For Solar, Wind Energy Breakthrough
July 23, 2014: U.S. Geothermal Profits Heat Up
July 23, 2014: Will Microsoft’s Wind Of Change Hit Amazon?
July 23, 2014: Wind Farms Potentially Beneficial and Harmful to Offshore Ecosystems
July 23, 2014: Is Coal the Next Clean Energy?
July 23, 2014: Nuclear-Renewable Mix Is Just What The EPA Ordered
July 22, 2014: Self-cooling Solar Cells Boost Power, Last Longer
July 22, 2014: Wave, Tide, Ocean Current, In-Stream, And OTEC Power
July 22, 2014: Magnolia Solar Is Using Nanotechnology to Develop High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells
July 22, 2014: Forget the Death Spiral: Electric Vehicles Offer a Major Growth Opportunity for Utilities
July 21, 2014: Departments of Energy and Agriculture Announce Bioenergy Projects in 10 States
July 21, 2014: Sheep Keeping Grass Under Control At OCI Solar “Farm” In San Antonio
July 21, 2014: The Big Question: What is Your Prediction for the North American Wind Power Market Post 2015?
July 21, 2014: NRG Energy Acquires Its First Public Solar Facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands
July 21, 2014: Solar Power And Wind Energy Comprised A Majority Of New New Generating Capacity In The First Half Of 2014
July 21, 2014: Utility Scale Solar Farms are Fueling U.S. Growth
July 18, 2014: Solar Investments Completes Purchase of SolarPanelTalk, America’s Leading Online Solar Forum
July 18, 2014: Utilities Shouldn’t Fight Distributed Solar, They Should Own It
July 18, 2014: Trash-To-Electricity Project To Double Capacity
Emerging Technologies
July 22, 2014: Next Big Thing You Missed: Bigger, Cheaper Fuel Cells Will Eliminate Power Outages
July 21, 2014: Three Battery Projects Tied To PNNL, DOE Will Integrate Renewable Energy, Improve Power Grid
July 21, 2014: Laufer Wind Demonstrates Radar-Activated Obstruction Lighting System
July 18, 2014: Construction Begins On Largest Carbon Capture Project For An Existing Coal Plant To Date
Outside Texas
July 24, 2014: Report: Nuclear Industry’s Safety Measures Are ‘Inadequate’
July 24, 2014: Proposed U.S. Nuclear Power Reactors
July 22, 2014: Lockheed Goes Global To Build Its Nuclear Business
July 21, 2014: Mexico’s CFE To Tender $2.8 Bln In Power Plant, Pipeline Projects
Other News
July 24, 2014: Direct Energy Partners with Sears Shop Your Way
July 24, 2014: Ten Tips to Save Money Inside Your Home
July 24, 2014: Corralling Carbon Before It Belches From Stack
July 23, 2014: OCI Solar Power LLC Files Notice of EWG Status
July 23, 2014: Sharyland Files to Implement TCRF for IDR Customers, Lower Rates for Non-IDR Customers
July 23, 2014: Corralling Carbon Before It Belches From Stack
July 22, 2014: GDF SUEZ Joins Broadscale Group to Accelerate Energy Innovations
July 21, 2014: Woodville Renewable Power Plant Files for REC Certification
July 21, 2014: Different POLR Selection Process Requested for New Sharyland Areas
July 22, 2014: New MLM Channel Begins Marketing Retail Electric, Natural Gas Supply
July 18, 2014: Acacia Energy Adds New Assumed Names
July 18, 2014: Texas Lawmakers Study Desalination Expansion
July 18, 2014: Wind Turbines Could Power Smartphones: Math Workshop Engages Elementary Teachers
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For the Week of 7/11/14 — 7/18/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
July 18, 2014: Energy Future Says It May Have to Scrap Bankruptcy Deal
July 17, 2014: NextEra Sweetens Energy Future Loan in Oncor Takeover Bid
July 17, 2014: Florida Power Company NextEra Outbids Itself In Fight For Oncor
July 17, 2014: NextEra Floats Bankruptcy Merger for Energy Future’s Oncor Division
July 15, 2014: EFH Pulls Out Of Optim Energy Auction
July 14, 2014: Energy Future Drops Bid For Another Bankrupt Power Firm
July 14, 2014: Luminant Energy Disputing Lower Appraised Value
July 14, 2014: Oncor Schedules Second Quarter 2014 Investor Call
July 14, 2014: Energy Future Intermediate Holding Company LLC and EFIH Finance Inc. Announce Extension of Expiration Date for Second Lien Settlement
July 13, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future Holdings’ Value Surges
Generation Adequacy
July 17, 2014: Keeping America’s Lights On
July 16, 2014: Parties Agree to Resettlement in ERCOT, Odessa-Ector Power Partners Dispute
July 15, 2014: Texas Electricity Prices Rise as Hot Weather Boosts Demand
July 14, 2014: Texas Commission Okays Two More Montana Units For El Paso
July 14, 2014:Xcel Energy: Investment in Texas Plainview-Area Power Facilities Surging
July 10, 2014: Texas Regulators Back Yearlong Review of ERCOT Power Reserve Margin
July 13, 2014: AMS Data Workshop II: ERCOT AMS Data Monitoring
Headlines
July 17, 2014: Texas GEUS Considering Electric Rate Increase
July 17, 2014: As Solar Grows in Texas, Border City Provides a Model
July 17, 2014: Small-Scale Solar Energy Projects take Advantage of Abundant Sunlight in West Texas
July 17, 2014: Local Neighborhood in Austin Practices Smart Solar Savings
July 17, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend
July 17, 2014: Sunrun Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Appointments from TXU Energy, Box and United Technologies
July 16, 2014: How One Austin Home Produces More Energy Than It Uses
July 16, 2014: NRG Energy Could Be Onto Something Big With This $1 Billion Investment
July 16, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. to Present Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results on August 7, 2014
July 16, 2014: Bennie Fuelberg’s Convictions Stand, Appeals Court Rules
July 16, 2014: Could Water Be The Next Regulatory Hot Spot Between Texas And The EPA?
July 16, 2014: USDA Announces Funding to Improve Electric Systems in Rural Areas
July 15, 2014: Cleaner Air Alchemy from NRG Energy
July 16, 2014: GDF SUEZ Offers VPower™ to Help Commercial and Industrial Customers Manage Electricity Consumption and Cost
July 16, 2014: StarTex Power Help Texans Manage Energy Costs With Smart Wi-Fi Thermostats
July 14, 2014: Texas Utilities Preparing for New EPA Regulations
July 14, 2014: 2 Charts Show Why Wind Power Won’t Solve the Carbon Problem
July 14, 2014: Study: States Can Handle EPA Power Plant Rules
July 14, 2014: Distributed vs. Centralized Generation: Battle of the CEOs
July 10, 2014: NBU Rests, LCRA Starts Making Its Case
July 13, 2014: Making The Most Of America’s Natural Gas Resources
July 13, 2014: What Is Power Consumption Telling Us About The US Economy?
July 11, 2014: Why Buffett Is Betting On Energy Stocks Again
July 8, 2014: Advanced Energy Management Alliance: States, Consumers and Industry Rally for Demand Response Appeal
Power Grid Security
July 14, 2014: Bechtel Launches Initiative to Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity Capabilities
July 14, 2014: US House Passes Payne Smart Grid Study as Part of Larger Appropriations Bill
Renewable Power
July 17, 2014: NRG Energy Donates $100,000 To Fund Solar Power Expansion At The Houston Food Bank
July 17, 2014: Siemens Wind Service Update: Film Previews New Purpose-Built SOV And Offshore Logistics Concept
July 17, 2014: Clean Power, Off the Grid
July 17, 2014: Dead Air: End of Tax Credit Deflates Wind Power
July 17, 2014: 5 Graphs About Wind Energy
July 17, 2014: Sany Wins Appeal On US Wind Farms
July 17, 2014: US Federal Government Tips Solar For Leading Energy Role
July 17, 2014: Alternative-Energy Funds See Renewed Buying by Investors
July 16, 2014: Leased Solar Panels Can Cast A Shadow Over A Home’s Value
July 16, 2014: Benchmark Reveals 25 Electric Utilities Across 14 States Offering Electric Vehicle Rates And Tariffs To Boost Customer Engagement
July 16, 2014: Wind Power Growth Still Surging Where Strongly Supported
July 15, 2014: Solar-Industry Coalition for Fair Trade Swells above 250 Employers of 25,000 Americans
July 15, 2014: EDF Renewable Energy Acquires 175 MW Wind Project with a Power Purchase Agreement with Microsoft Corporation
July 14, 2014: San Antonio Mission Solar Receives Job-Training Grant
July 14, 2014: Why Texas Beats Alberta With Wind Energy
July 14, 2014: Intelligent Energy’s Secret Apple Deal
July 14, 2014: Solar Power: Renewable Energy’s ‘More Acceptable Face’
July 11, 2014: Sheep Power: Texas Solar Farm Employs Lamb Landscapers
July 13, 2014: Electric Bicycle Puts Extra Oomph In Every Pedal Stroke
July 11, 2014: La Caisse Buys Almost 25% Stake in Invenergy Wind for Undisclosed Price
July 11, 2014: Wal-Mart, GM, HP Lobby To Boost Renewable Energy
July 11, 2014: As Jobs In Solar Power Boom, R&D Investment Falls
July 11, 2014: Report Finds Burned Birds Near Solar Power Mirrors
Emerging Technologies
July 15, 2014: Siemens Releases New Mobile-Web App
Outside Texas
July 16, 2014: Hungry U.S. Power Plant Turns to Russia for Coal Shipment
July 14, 2014: ISU Helps Develop Electricity Rate Database
July 14, 2014: Westinghouse Shakes Up Prospects For West Coast Nuclear Power
July 14, 2014: Siemens Hits 10 GW Installed Wind Capacity In The Americas
July 11, 2014: Texas Disputes EPA Over Pollution In Illinois
July 11, 2014: Westinghouse Technology Installed At Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant
Other News
July 17, 2014: Customer Acquisition Specialists of America Register as Aggregator in Texas
July 17, 2014: Oncor Smart Meter Opt-Out Tariff Takes Effect, Opportunity for REP Differentiation, Acquisition
July 17, 2014: Madison Team From San Antonio Set For Solar Car Competition
July 16, 2014: New Aggregator Registering with PUCT has 5 Senior Staff You May Recognize
July 16, 2014: US Retailers LLC Files to Use DBA of Cirro Energy
July 16, 2014: Texas REP Promoting 1¢/kWh Power
July 16, 2014: Direct Energy Offering DirecTV Bundle in New State
July 16, 2014: NBA Legend Bill Walton Joins NRG Home Solar Team
July 15, 2014: Fifth Circuit Limits The Reach Of ESA “Take Liability” For State Regulatory Agencies Based On “Proximate Causation” Principles
July 15, 2014: NRG Energy Donates $100,000 to Fund Solar Power Expansion at the Houston Food Bank
July 14, 2014: Power Generation Company to Operate and Dispatch DG Assets
July 14, 2014: Direct Energy Teams with Nest to Bring Energy Savings As Part Of Initial Customer Offers in Five States
July 14, 2014: Direct Energy Giving Nest Thermostats To AEP Customers Who Switch For 2 Years
July 14, 2014: People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Use More Electricity
July 14, 2014: KCI Energy Files for REP Certification
July 14, 2014: Cogeneration Power Generation Company Changes Name
July 14, 2014: New Wind Facility Registers as Power Generation Company
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For the Week of 7/4/14 — 7/11/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
July 9, 2014: Energy Future Postpones Hearings After Judge Questions Plans
July 9, 2014: EFH Delays Hearing To Determine Fate Of Oncor
July 9, 2014: EFH Asks Court To Delay Hearings On Oncor
July 8, 2014: Oncor’s Credit Rating Gets A Boost From Moody’s
July 9, 2014: Energy Future Defers Request on $1.9 Billion Loan
July 7, 2014: Energy Future Asks to Take Part in Optim Asset Auction
July 6, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Bankruptcy At Critical Juncture As Oncor Fight Nears End
June 30, 2014: Energy Future $1.9 Billion Loan Draws Competition, Opposition
July 7, 2014: Would Hunt-Owned Oncor Mean Integration of Sharyland, Oncor Retail Pricing?
Generation Adequacy
July 10, 2014: New “peaking” power units coming to Texas
July 10, 2014: Is Texas Souring On Wind Power?
July 9, 2014: Three Wind Units Change Hands From Edison Mission Energy To NRG Energy
July 9 2014: Navasota Energy Plans Three ERCOT Peaking Stations: Company President
July 9, 2014: Study Will Assess Shifting Transmission Costs To Wind Generators in Texas
July 9, 2014: E.ON In Pact With GE Financial Services For Texas Wind Farm
July 8, 2014: Navasota Seeks To Build Three Natgas Power Plants In Texas
July 8, 2014: CPS Tapping Multiple Energy Sources To Meet EPA Requirement
July 8 2014: E.ON and GE Energy Financial Services Partner to Complete GE-Powered Wind Farm, in Texas Panhandle
July 8, 2014: Expert Says New Texas Carson Wind Farm Could Cost $442 Million
July 8, 2014: Buried Message in NERC Report Hints at Investor Opportunity
July 7, 2014: No 100-Degree Days Means Low Demand For Electricity In Texas, So Far
July 7, 2014: Texas Power Companies Oppose Electric Reliability Project
July 7, 2014: Houston Energy Company Completes $1.5 Billion Power Plant Sale
July 7, 2014: Sunday Fire Rips Building CPS’s Calaveras Power Plant
July 7, 2014: Texas Utility Aims To Be Coal-Free With The Help Of Solar Power
July 7, 2014: Spinning Spur Ii Wind Energy Project In Texas Becomes Operational
July 4, 2014: How to Prevent Summer Blackouts
Headlines
July 10, 2014: CPS Energy Aims To Crack The Code To Succeed In An Era Of Distributed Generation
July 10, 2014: Texas Can Lead In Approaches To Meeting Emissions Caps
July 9, 2014: El Paso May Become the First Texas City to Go Coal Free
July 9, 2014: PUCT Approves El Paso Electric Application For 115-Kv Transmission Line
July 9, 2014: CPS Customers Sent False Bills
July 9, 2014: FERC Workshop on Price Formation in Energy and Ancillary Service Markets
July 9, 2014: Warren Buffett Might Be Onto Something With This Investment
July 8, 2014: Schneider Electric To Expand West Side El Paso Plant, Hire Nearly 200 People
July 8, 2014: Rio Grande Valley, TX Booming With Economic Opportunity
July 8, 2014: Calpine Corporation Announces Inaugural Senior Unsecured Notes Offering
July 7, 2014: It’s A Busy Time For Mergers In Texas
July 7, 2014: AE’s Solar Deal: ‘Game Changer’
July 7, 2014: Series Of Copper Thefts Costs Co-Op $20,000
July 2, 2014: Smart Grid Project Saves Money and Energy in Texas
July 3, 2014: Calpine Completes Sale of Six Southeast Power Plants, Sets Date for Second Quarter 2014 Earnings Call
July 6, 2014: Taking Oil Industry Cue, Environmentalists Drew Emissions Blueprint
July 5, 2014: Consequences Of Future EPA Regulations For Texas Look Cloudy
July 5, 2014: EPA Rules Will Stifle U.S. Economy
July 5, 2014: EPA’s Clean Power Plan Will Boost Economy, Create Jobs
Power Grid Security
July 8, 2014: Security Systems for Solar Power Plants
July 7, 2014: Power Plant Attacks Spark Research Groups To Urge Feds To Take Control Of Power Grid Security
July 3, 2014: Wind Plant Owners Are Leaders In Cyber-Security And Grid Reliability
Renewable Power
July 10, 2014: Sheep Power at a San Antonio Solar Farm
July 10, 2014: Race hosted by UT Austin is On for Best Solar Car of 2014
July 10, 2014: What’s New In Wind Technology?
July 9, 2014: Texas Solar Power Association Founded To Promote Development Within The Industry
July 9, 2014: Enbridge Eyes US Wind Plays
July 9, 2014: Wind Generators May Be Handed Power Line Costs
July 9, 2014: American Universities Learn Wind Power Is A Good Deal
July 9, 2014: Wind Energy Industry doing Best to Protect and Care for Bald Eagles
July 9, 2014: With New EPA Emissions Proposal, Is Biomass Conversion Becoming More of a Reality?
July 8, 2014: Siemens Achieves Milestone Of 10-GW Of Installed Wind Capacity Milestone In The Americas
July 7, 2014: Houston Giant Named Top Green Energy Company Of 2014
July 7, 2014: Solar Energy Comes to Pecos County: a Look at the Barilla Solar Project
July 3, 2014: Solar’s New Weapon – Knowing The Weather Forecast
July 3, 2014: Solar Power Makes Gains in US
July 3, 2014: Geothermal Energy Unloved While Solar Steals the Show
July 3, 2014:Small-Scale Solar Will Be ‘Most Important’ Renewable In Coming Years
Outside Texas
July 10, 2014: Nuclear Regulatory Commission International Policy Statement
July 10, 2014: EIA Projections Show Hydro Growth Limited By Economics Not Resources
July 10, 2014: Carbon Producers Can Meet EPA’s Limits As They Have In The Past
July 9, 2014: PNM Under Fire Over Coal, Nuke Power In Plan
July 9, 2014: Federal Research Spurs Washington State To Store Energy
July 9, 2014: Utility Bill Spikes Caused By Lack Of Electric, Gas Coordination, Experts Say
July 8, 2014: Obama to Nominate Defense Adviser as Deputy Energy Secretary
July 7, 2014: 99 Of 100 U.S. Power Reactors Now Producing Power
July 6, 2014: Russian Scientists Raising Funds To Rebuild Tesla Tower, Satisfy World Energy Hunger
July 6, 2014: US Company Signs Billion-Dollar Energy Deal With Iran
July 3, 2014: Refining Estimates of Bird Collision and Electrocution Mortality at Power Lines in the United States
July 3, 2014: Nuclear update: Total US production approaches 97%
Other News
July 10, 2014: Aggregator Electricity Management Services Registers with PUCT
July 11, 2014: Texas REP Acquires Customers of Two Competitors
July 9, 2014: TCEQ Announces Grants For Alternative Fuel And Hybrid Vehicles
July 8, 2014: Oncor Hosts Electrical Safety Conference
July 8, 2014: Texas REP Offering Customers $50 Incentive for Every 60 Days of Service
July 8, 2014: KKR and Riverstone Holdings to Form Trinity River Energy
July 8, 2014: A Texas Guide to Economic Recovery
July 7, 2014: Texas REP Offering Service in New Territories
July 7, 2014: Texas REP Offering Replenishment of Prepaid Service Through Barcode Sent to Phone
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For the Week of 6/27/14 — 7/4/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
July 1, 2014: Energy Future Insiders Took in $46 Million Last Year
July 1, 2014: 8 Lender Groups Seek To Throttle EFH’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
June 30, 2014: Lenders Line Up To Oppose Energy Future Holdings Financing Plan
June 27, 2014: Senator Troy Frasier Warns Against Hedge Funds ‘Flipping’ Energy Future Unit
June 27, 2014: Hunt Consolidated Enters Fight For Oncor
June 27, 2014: NextEra Pursues Bid for Control of Energy Future’s Oncor
June 27, 2014: Hunt Family, Pension Fund Seek to Invest in Energy Future Holdings
June 27, 2014: Energy Future Lenders Fight to Put Brakes on Turnaround
Generation Adequacy
July 2, 2014: ERCOT’s Generation Requests Queue Declines; 2,006 MW Approved For Synchronization
July 2, 2014: PSEG Solar Source To Acquire 13 MW Texas Solar Project From Juwi
July 2, 2014: First Wind Buys Westerly Wind’s 2nd Texas Wind Project
July 2, 2014: Pattern Energy Acquires Panhandle 1 Wind Project In Texas As It Reaches Completion
July 2, 2014: Texas to Lead Other States in Wind Power Development, ERCOT Says, an Industrial Info News Alert
July 1, 2014: Citi Buys Deutsche Bank’s U.S. Power Trading Books, Including in ERCOT
July 1, 2014: Bandera Buys CPS Power
July 2, 2014: David Crane’s Green Vision For Carbon-Belching NRG Energy
July 1, 2014: EPA Appears to Have Green Light to Develop Regulations on Utility Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Emissions
July 1, 2014: Are EPA’s Carbon Rules Really About Nuclear?
July 1, 2014: Will U.S. Power Plant Rule Stimulate Renewable Energy Deployment?
July 1, 2014: U.S. Fracking Has ‘Cut Carbon More Than The Whole World’s Wind And Solar’
June 30, 2014: Texas Co-Op Working To Mitigate Wholesale Power Costs
June 30, 2014: High Heat in Texas Brings Calls For Conservation
June 30, 2014: Basis For State Goals In EPA’s Clean Power Plan Remain Mysterious, Experts Say
June 30, 2014: FERC Initiates Proceeding to Evaluate Price Formation
June 27, 2014: Westerly Wind Sells Second Texas Wind Project to First Wind
June 27, 2014: Power Generation Services Acquires Constellation Control and Dispatch Unit
June 27, 2014: FERC Calls ISO-NE Capacity Price Filing Deficient, Seeks Info on Manipulation, Mitigation
Headlines
July 2, 2014: Fitch Affirms Lower Colorado River Auth’s, TX Transmission Contract Rev Bonds at ‘A+
July 2, 2014: FERC Acts To Ensure That Utility Cost-Based Rates Include An Adequate Return On Equity
July 1, 2014: FERC Commissioner Norris Expects Not To Seek Another Term
July 1, 2014: NRG Yield Completes $349M Acquisition Of Three NRG Energy Assets
July 1, 2014: Fitch Affirms Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, TX’s CP at ‘F1+’
July 1, 2014: NRC Names William (Bill) Dean Director of Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
June 30, 2014: Austin Energy To Stick With Kinder Morgan, Sign $25M Gas Pipeline Deal
June 30, 2014: Angry About Wind Power Subsidies? So Was Texas
June 30, 2014: In Austin, Calif. Lawmaker Pushes Back On Tesla, Business Recruiting
June 30, 2014: Report Ranks The Top States For LEED Certified Homes: California, New York And Texas Top The List
June 30, 2014: NRG Yield, Inc. Completes Acquisition of NRG Right of First Offer Assets
June 30, 2014: Utility Deals Heating Up With Gas Glut
June 27, 2014: LCRA Faced Tough Choices In Trying To Keep its Electric Customers
June 27, 2014: FERC Adopts New Methodology to Determine Electric Utility ROE
June 27, 2014: Texas Co-Op Offers $1,000 Reward For Copper Thefts
June 27, 2014: NRG Plans to Convert Coal-fired Shawville Power Plant to Natural Gas
Power Grid Security
July 2, 2014: Western Energy Companies Facing Sabotage Threat
July 1, 2014: Hackers Find Open Back Door to Power Grid With Renewables
Renewable Power
July 2, 2014: These New Energy Maps Show 4 Neat Things About Renewables
July 2, 2014: Home Of American Motor Racing Embraces Solar
July 2, 2014: DOE Conditionally Commits To U.S. Offshore Wind Industry
July 1, 2014: This Smart Energy Experiment In Texas Will Benefit You, Too
July 1, 2014: The Solar Challenge In Texas: Lessons Learned From Arizona, California
July 1, 2014: Research: Solar Panels Benefit Crops
July 1, 2014: IKEA, Microsoft And Google Power Business With Wind
July 1, 2014: Why The Shift To Alternative Energy Continues Despite Shale Boom
July 1, 2014: Nautilus Solar Energy and North American Roofing Announce Partnership Agreement
June 30, 2014: Texas Leads U.S. In Wind Power
June 30, 2014: 4 New Energy Maps Show A Lot About Renewables
June 30, 2014: Solar Capacity Grew 33% In 2013, And There’s Plenty Of Room To Run
June 27, 2014: More Builders Adopt Solar as Standard
June 27, 2014: US And Canada Are Global Leaders In Renewable Power Generation
June 27, 2014: Bladenboro Farmer Producing Electricity From Hog Waste
June 27, 2014: Michigan’s Wind Energy Industry Soaring
Emerging Technologies
July 2, 2014: Utah State University Researchers Aim to Cure ‘Range Anxiety’ in Electric Cars
July 1, 2014: Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K
July 1, 2014: UT Ausitn: Improved Method For Isotope Enrichment Would Better Secure Supplies
June 27, 2014: Westinghouse Extends New-Plant Market With Specialized Seismic Option
June 27, 2014: NREL Supercomputer Tackles Grid Challenges
Outside Texas
July 2, 2014: Westinghouse Acquisition to Expand Nuclear, Oil and Gas Business
June 30, 2014: GE Releases 2013 Progress against Sustainability Commitments
June 30, 2014: Tiny Electric Grids Help States Weather Extreme Storms
June 30, 2014: OSHA Issues Interim Policy For Electric Power Generation Rule
June 27, 2014: Can ‘Clean Coal’ Be An Environmental Game Changer?
June 27, 2014: Utilities Are Best Suited For Developing Microgrids, APS Tech Director Says
June 27, 2014: Interest Growing in Commercial and Community Microgrids
Other News
July 2, 2014: TXU Energy Tells Texans to Cool Off and Win Big with Sweepstakes
July 3, 2014: Texas Rep Promoting 30% Off Solar Lease, in Addition to $250 Bill Credit
July 1, 2014: Texas Rep Offering Service in New Territory
July 1, 2014: Luminant And Tyler Junior College Creating Success With Power Track Program
June 30, 2014: NRG Offering Mobile Device Charging “Lockers” Solution for Airports, Malls, Also Expands Pivit Point
June 30, 2014: NRG’s Partnership with Unilever to Green the CPG Giant’s Energy Use
June 30, 2014: Reliant Summer Tips Make the Home a Playground of Energy Savings
June 30, 2014: MPISD Hears Report On Luminant Appraisal Appeal
June 30, 2014: 5th Circuit Opinion Favors Texas Water Suppliers
June 27, 2014: Is the Drought Over?
June 27, 2014: Major Water Pipeline Deal for San Antonio Could Come This Fall
June 27, 2014: Planning For Desalination Now Will Help Meet Our Future Needs
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For the Week of 6/20/14 — 6/27/14
Today’s News Flashes by Texas Electric News Copyright 2014 by Competitive Assets, LLC. All rights reserved
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
June 26, 2014: Holdout Fidelity Gets $200 Million Haul in Energy Future Bet
June 26, 2014: Creditors Balk At Bankruptcy Loan Teeing Up Energy Future Sale
June 24, 2014: Energy Future Rejects NextEra’s $2.3 Bln Bankruptcy Plan to Take Over Oncor
June 25, 2014: Energy Future Should Kill Borrowing Plan, Creditors Say
June 24, 2014: Energy Future Crown Jewel Creates Rift: Corporate Finance
June 24, 2014: Energy Future Investors Float Oncor Takeover Via NextEra
June 23, 2014: Energy Future Said to Revise Loan Backing Restructuring
Generation Adequacy
June 26, 2014: Obama, Epa Regulations Make Fracking Mandatory
June 26, 2014: The Next Steps for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
June 26, 2014: Austin City Council Endorses EPA Emissions Rule
June 25, 2014: GDF Suez Faces CFTC Market Manipulation Probe
June 25, 2014: Texas Community Wind Farm Sold To First Wind Holdings
June 25, 2014: Lockheed Martin and Chinese Nuclear Firm Begin Developing Reactor Safety Systems in Texas
June 25, 2014: As Renewables Grow in Texas, Battles Over Fees and Subsidies Emerge
June 24, 2014: Wind Curtailments & Negative Wholesale Electricity Prices Drop In Texas
June 24, 2014: GDF Suez: ‘Speculators’ Attempting to Have Court Reject ERCOT Market Design, Impose Novel Obligations on Participants
June 24, 2014: How Texas Could Easily Meet New Carbon Regulations
June 24, 2014: New EPA Power Plant Rule Is A Sweet Deal For Fracked Gas
June 24, 2014: Environmental Groups Say Obama Administration Watered Down EPA Pollution Rule
June 23, 2014: Texas Hits New Peak Wind Output
June 23, 2014: Texas: The Renewable, Green Energy State
June 23, 2014: Marston: Chairman Nelson Cannot Ignore Texas Wind’s Benefits and Condemn Its Cost
June 23, 2014: Texas a Testing Ground for Energy Storage
June 23, 2014: U.S. Has Sufficient Resources to Meet Summer’s Peak Electricity Demand
June 23, 2014: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on EPA hailed by both Inhofe, Sierra Club
June 23, 2014: Inhofe Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling for Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA
June 23, 2014: Another Loss for Texas in Its Challenge of EPA Regulations
June 20, 2014: Texas Electricity Prices Gain Amid Below-Forecast Wind Output
June 20, 2014: Oncor Project Tests New Storage for Energy
June 20, 2014: Cirque Energy To Develop Biomass Gasification Plant In Texas
June 20, 2014: NRG Energy Deploys 1,200 Megawatts of Solar Capacity to Capture Energy on Longest Day of the Year
Headlines
June 26, 2014: Utility Scam Hits Texas
June 26, 2014: Is Austin America’s Smartest City?
June 26, 2014: Resort, Texas Co-Op To Install Charging Stations For Electric Cars
June 26, 2014: FERC Under Fire
June 25, 2014: Large Solar Farm May Be Constructed Here, Lamesa, Texas
June 25, 2014: Power, Key to Economic Stability
June 25, 2014: Can We Build a Next-Generation Distributed Grid
June 25, 2014: Crumbling U.S. Grid Gets Jolt in Smart Houston Power System
June 24, 2014: Texas Solar Power Association To Promote State Solar Business
June 24, 2014: NRG Energy Short Interest Down 30.9% in May
June 24, 2014: Nest Allows Other Products To ‘Talk’ With Its Devices
June 24, 2014: Could “Personal Power Plants” Make Utility Companies Seem Retro?
June 23, 2014: Rancher’s Complaint May Spur New Power Line Rules in Texas
June 23, 2014: Tesla Motors Opening Its First Dallas ‘Gallery’ At Northpark
June 23, 2014: Why Rick Perry Wants Tesla Motors In Texas
June 23, 2014: TXU Power Plant A Dusty Old Relic Or Real Estate Gem?
June 23, 2014: Google’s Nest Opens Doors To Third-Party Apps
June 23, 2014: With Google, an Eye on New Screens
June 23, 2014: FERC Sets For Hearing MISO’s Plan To Allocate Entergy Integration-Related Transmission Costs
June 23, 2014: New OSHA Rules On Electric Power Generation, Transmission, And Distribution
June 23, 2014: New Energy Efficiency Standardization Roadmap Establishes National Framework for Action
June 23, 2014: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Avoids Policy Mistakes Made In EU
June 23, 2014: Supreme Court Dials Back EPA’s Global Warming Rules
June 20, 2014: Texas PUC Denies Petition To Eliminate ‘Small Fish’ Rule
June 20, 2014: Texas Approves Settlement Under Which Retail Provider Must Sell Business
June 20, 2014: New Braunfels Utilities Takes Battle With LCRA To Trial
June 20, 2014: SPS Ups Rates For Electricity
June 20, 2014: Election For Coserv Electric’s Board Goes To Runoff
June 20, 2014: Unleashing The Benefits Of American Energy
June 20, 2014: Energy Department Invests Over $10 Million to Improve Grid Reliability and Resiliency
Power Grid Security
June 23, 2014: From Smart to Resilient: How Utilities Are Using New Technology to Protect the Grid
Renewable Power
June 26, 2014: Toyota Reveals Exterior, Japan Pricing Of 2015 Fuel Cell Vehicle
June 25, 2014: Half Of Houston’s Downtown Commercial Projects Considered ‘Green”
June 25, 2014: NRG Energy Collects Power from Solar Energy
June 25, 2014: At Last, Stable Profits From Green Energy Stocks?
June 25, 2014: NASA Administrator and Media to See DSS Solar Array Progress in Goleta, Calif.
June 25, 2014: RAM Proves Successful For SCE In Securing Renewable Power
June 25, 2014: Toyota Accelerates Rollout of Fuel-Cell Cars
June 24, 2014: Residential Solar Competitive With Electricity In 25 States Next Year: NRG CEO
June 24, 2014: NextEnergy, in Partnership with Clean Energy Trust, Awarded $745,000 National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy Grant
June 24, 2014: Wind Helps Renewables Dominate New U.S. Generation In May
June 24, 2014: US Wind Headed For Dismal Year As Carbon Emissions Rise
June 24, 2014: EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan to Affect these 5 Sectors the Most
June 23, 2014: NRG Energy Exceeds 1.2 GW Of Installed Solar Power Capacity
June 23, 2014: Calpine Sees Risk to Geothermal as Green Energy Grows
June 23, 2014: Geothermal Energy Association Brings National Summit to Reno
June 23, 2014: New Study Gives Concentrating Solar Power Fans Something To Cheer About
June 23, 2014: Wind Power Improves Energy Reliability & Reduces Energy Costs
June 23, 2014: Nation’s Mayors Expand Their Commitment To Attack Local Climate Challenges
June 23, 2014: U.S. To Face Multibillion-Dollar Bill From Climate Change: Report
June 23, 2014: Leffingwell Among Mayors To Endorse Climate Change Ideas
June 20, 2014: Oklahoma To Levy Tax on New Residential Solar And Wind
Emerging Technologies
June 26, 2014: NREL and General Motors Announce R&D Partnership to Reduce Cost of Automotive Fuel Cells
June 26, 2014: General Electric Company to Be Lead Research Sponsor at New University of Notre Dame Technology Center
June 26, 2014: Cool Energy Technology Converts Waste Heat Energy from Concentrating Solar Power into Carbon Free Energy
June 23, 2014: The World is Moving Toward the Development of the ‘Power Cloud,’ Whether It Knows It Or Not
June 23, 2014: New Technology Driving Geothermal
June 20, 2014: EPRI Study on the Integrated Electric Grid at Darnell’s Energy Summit
Outside Texas
June 24, 2014: Scams Set Off Utility Alarms Across The Country
June 23, 2014: In California, Car Charging Group Charges Ahead While NRG Energy Stumbles
June 23, 2014: Nevada Could Lure Tesla With Discounted Electricity
June 20, 2014: Utilities Unsure Of Future As Environmental Regs Loom
Other News
June 26, 2014: New Power Generator using Distributed Generation Registers with PUCT
June 26, 2014: Top Retail Exec Departs NRG Energy
June 26, 2014: CenterPoint Ex-empolyee Turned Identity Thief Now On Probation
June 25, 2014: Luminant Power Track Graduates Jump-Start Their Energy Careers
June 25, 2014: New Wind Facility Applies for Renewable Energy Credit Certification
June 23, 2014: Ensuring Sufficient Water Supplies In Texas
June 20, 2014: TX Rep Expands How It Powers and Protects Texas Homes
June 20, 2014: El Paso Jumps Into Fight Over Rio Grande Water
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For the Week of 6/13/14 — 6/20/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
June 17, 2014: Texas Lets Bankrupt EFH Set Aside Funds
June 17, 2014: Texas Railroad Commission Okays EFH Financing For Coal Mine Cleanup
June 17, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future Unit Sued Over Proposed Refinancing
June 16, 2014: Energy Future Sued Over Payment on $2.2 Billion of Loans
June 13, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Fail to Halt $706 Million Accord
Generation Adequacy
June 19, 2014: NRG Energy to Bring 50 MW of Biomass Back to Texas
June 19, 2014: InventivEnergy and NRG Energy Services Partner to Restart the Aspen Power Biomass Plant
June 19, 2014: Gates-Controlled Optim Energy Seeks Sale of Texas Plant
June 19, 2014: Macho Springs Solar PV Plant Comes Online In New Mexico
June 18, 2014: Despite Heat, Low Electricity Prices In Texas Show How Wind Is Good For Consumers
June 18, 2014: EPA and Partners Celebrate Nation’s Largest Federally Owned Wind Farm; Site Near Amarillo Now Generates Power for Nearby Plant
June 17, 2014: Spot Power Doubles in Mid-Atlantic as Heat Sweeps Region
June 16, 2014: Natural Gas, Electric Power Prices Inch Upward
June 16, 2014: EMRF Study Finds Restructured Electricity Markets Challenged To Ensure Reliability Without Major Changes
June 16, 2014: PUCT To Discuss Staff’s Recommendation To Deny Raiden Commodities Petition About Market Power Definition
Headlines
June 19, 2014: EPA Ruling On Uranium Mining Near Goliad TX Could Set National Precedent
June 19, 2014: Uranium Energy Corp Receives Reaffirmation from EPA of Aquifer Exemption for the Goliad Project
June 19, 2014: NEI Welcomes House Appropriators’ Support for Nuclear Energy
June 19, 2014: Texas State Climatologist on Politics, Weather, and Setting the Facts Straight on Climate Change
June 19, 2014: Peddicord nominated for Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
June 19, 2014: Why Electric Utilities Should Invest In Grid Modernization
June 18, 2014: CPS Council Should Nix Proposed Solar Fees
June 18, 2014: Time For Discussion On Radioactive Waste
June 18, 2014: After Deal, Senators Advance Energy Agency Nominees
June 18, 2014: Clock To Start Ticking On EPA’s CO2 Limits For Existing Power Plants
June 18, 2014: U.S. Supreme Court Allows to Stand Ruling That Sources of Air Pollutants are Subject to State Common Law Tort Claims
June 17, 2014: EP Electric Now Getting Power From New Mexico’s Largest Solar Plant
June 17, 2014: Texas Group Seeks New Clean Air Plan
June 17, 2014: ICForecast Energy Outlook: Expects Proposed Regulations to Add to Long-Term Power and Fuels Market Uncertainty
June 17, 2014: Joint Transmission Project Benefits Xcel Energy Customers
June 17, 2014: Utility Group Says ‘Utility Death Spiral’ Talk Is Overblown
June 16, 2014: Texas-Based Utility Well-Positioned for New EPA Carbon Standards: Coal-Free By 2016, Largest Solar Facility Doubles Solar Portfolio
June 16, 2014: El Paso Electric To Be Coal-Free By 2016, Increase Solar PV Use
June 16, 2014: Reliant Offers Unlimited Electricity Plan
June 13, 2014: Lubbock P&L Confirms Talks With FBI About Possible Criminal Activity
June 13, 2014: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Makes A Play For Tesla’s Battery Factory
June 13, 2014: Xcel Energy Evenly Poised
June 13, 2014: Senate Energy Committee Set To Vote On FERC Nominees
Power Grid Security
June 16, 2014: Threats Of Cyberattacks Just As Serious As Sabotage Seen At Power Plant
June 13, 2014: UglyGorilla Hack of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyberwar Threat
Renewable Power
June 19, 2014: Clarke Energy Installs GE’s Jenbacher Gas Engines to Drive Largest Landfill Gas Power Plant in France
June 19, 2014: Energy Department Announces New Regional Approach to Wind Energy Information
June 19, 2014: Buffett Unit Closes Second Deal This Month for Utah Solar Power
June 18, 2014: NRG Yield Plans $565M Common Stock Offering To Help Fund Alta Wind Buy
June 18, 2014: Shifting to Renewable Energy Can Save U.S. Consumers Money
June 18, 2014: Wind And Solar Power Ready To Help States Meet EPA Rule
June 18, 2014: US Solar Power Market: Government Incentives Will Support Revenue Growth As Demand Heats Up
June 16, 2014: NRG Energy Launches 6-MW Community Solar Facility
June 16, 2014: How Energy Storage Will Help Wind And Solar Power Clean Up Their Act
June 16, 2014: The Wind Turbine Payback
June 16, 2014: Solar Power’s Impact on Rural Exodus
June 13, 2014: An Innovative Community Solar Program from NRG and…Boeing?
June 13, 2014: Envision Solar International’s ‘Solar Tree’ product chosen by US retailer
June 13, 2014: The Poor Shouldn’t Have To Bear The Cost Of Solar Power
June 13, 2014: US Energy Department Announces New Regional Approach To Wind Energy Information
June 13, 2014: EIAs For Wind Farms Too Simplistic
June 13, 2014: Tenaska Closes $450 Million Financing for Second California Solar Project
June 13, 2014: Solar Power Threatens US Utilities
June 13, 2014: Solar Building on Sandia’s Molten Salt Expertise
Emerging Technologies
June 16, 2014: NREL Bolsters Batteries with Nanotubes
Outside Texas
June 19, 2014: FERC To Hold Conferences on RTO Energy Market “Price Formation”
June 19, 2014: Natural-Gas Export Facility Clears Federal Hurdle
June 18, 2014: Assembly OKs direct Tesla sales in N.J.
June 18, 2014: Perry vs. California
June 18, 2014: French Energy Law Leaves EDF to Plan Nuclear Retreat
June 18, 2014: Energy Savior or Red Herring?
June 18, 2014: Exelon and Pepco Holdings File for Merger Approval with Utility Commissions in Delaware, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
June 17, 2014: Nuclear update: US output edges up to 96.55%
June 17, 2014: EPA: Carbon Rules Could Ensure Nuclear Power’s Survival
June 17, 2014: Tesla Model X On Track To Ship; Carmaker Is Winning N.J. Dealer Fight
June 17, 2014: Chevrolet Volt Owners Surpass Half a Billion Electric Miles
Other News
June 19, 2014: EDF Trading Names Two Appointments for North American Retail Business
June 19, 2014: Texas Rep Adds Retail Veteran to Houston Office
June 19, 2014: Direct Energy’s New Partnership With Check Brings Mobile Payments To The Forefront For Utility Customers
June 18, 2014: State Agency Unveils Draft Rules On $2B In Funds For Water Projects
June 18, 2014: LCRA Board Approves 2015 Increased Raw Water Rates To Address Loss Of Water Revenue
June 18, 2014: Oncor Crew Worker Injured; Causes Power Outage In Rusk
June 17, 2014: $100,000 Donation from Texas Rep Serves Up Solar Power to the Houston Food Bank
June 17, 2014: Brazil Energy Giant Buys $1.24 Billion of Pain in Texas
June 16, 2014: Merrill Lynch Files Application to Become a Retail Provider in Texas
June 16, 2014: New Rules Could Shed Light on Texas Future Water Projects
June 16, 2014: Legislators Weigh Possibilities Of Expanding Water Desalination
June 16, 2014: Electric Now LP Files to Cease Operations
June 16, 2014: Court to Address Selection of Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund As Winning Bidder for Glacial Energy
For the Week of 6/6/14 — 6/13/14
FERC to Get New Homepage On 6/12/14, FERC announced that its new homepage will debut on 6/16/14. The new site promises “easier navigation to important items.”
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
June 11, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Seek Halt to $706 Million Accord
June 10, 2014: TXU Seeks Court Approval to Execute Settlement Providing Tax Refunds to C&I Customers
June 10, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Approved For Loan
June 9, 2014: Luminant Energy Selects OSI Technology for a New Generation Management System
June 6, 2014: Energy Future Wants to Use the approved $4.475 Billion Loan to Refinance Its Senior Bonds
June 6, 2014: Energy Future Plan Foes Must Wait to Challenge Valuation
Generation Adequacy
June 12, 2014: Nextera Energy : El Paso County Wind Farm Project’s New Owner Eyes Springs 2015 Construction Start
June 12, 2014: Natural Gas Gets A Reality Check After Obama’s EPA Proposal
June 12, 2014: Republicans To Try To Block Funds For EPA Emissions Rules
June 12, 2014: The Future Of Nuclear – Are The Majors Lagging?
June 12, 2014: Coal Plays A Unique And Vital Role – Peabody Energy CEO Boyce
June 12, 2014: EIA Expects Moderate Increases In Electric Prices, But With Wide Regional Variations
June 11, 2014: FERC To Seek En Banc Review Of Demand Response Ruling
June 11, 2014: McKinley Introduces Bill to Stop Devastating EPA Rule
June 11, 2014: EPA Proposes Clean Power Plan For Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Electric Generating Units
June 10, 2014: PUCT Opens Investigation Into Transmission Upgrades And Grid Stability Related To Renewable Generation
June 10, 2014: Transmission Projects Could Break Through Borders Of Power-Independent Texas
June 10, 2014: What Texas Could Do to Follow Climate Change Rules
June 10, 2014: Chamber Criticizes EPA Rules
June 10, 2014: Is The EPA Too Optimistic On Energy Efficiency?
June 10, 2014: The Surprising Winner Of The EPA’s Power Plant Rules
June 9, 2014: Large Solar Farm Coming to West Texas Brewster County
June 9, 2014: Water Quality Affects Texas Coal Plant
June 9, 2014: The 15 Dirtiest Power Plants In the US
June 9, 2014: Utilities Discuss How EPA Power Plant Rule Will Affect Transmission
June 9, 2014: ALJ: CCN for Two New Utility-Owned Generating Units Would Have No Effect On Customer Choice
June 9, 2014: What The EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like In Practice
June 9, 2014: Power Sector CO2 Emissions Sensitive To Policy Changes And Natural Gas Supply
June 9, 2014: EPA Carbon Rule: Cost And Benefit
June 9, 2014: Power-Hungry America: Where Will We Get the Energy
June 9, 2014: Carbon Captures Spotlight After EPA Proposal
June 9, 2014: Harry Reid Flexes Power at Electric Grid Regulatory Agency
June 6, 2014: EE, DR, CHP Could Reduce TX Demand By 50 Percent
June 6, 2014: AEP’s North DC Tie Returns To Service After Planned Outage: ERCOT Notice
Headlines
June 12, 2014: CPS’s Solar Fee Proposal Questioned
June 12, 2014: CPS’s Contentious Fees For Solar Explored
June 12, 2014: About 7,000 In Central Texas Without Power After Thursday Storms
June 12, 2014: Is Residential Solar on the Rise in Texas?
June 12, 2014: Exelon Prices Common Stock and Equity Units Offerings
June 12, 2014: Elon Musk Opens Up Tesla Patents To Kickstart Electric Car Industry
June 12, 2014: The EEI’s Campaign For Electric Utility Industry Supremacy
June 12, 2014: What Is Google Plotting for the Smart Grid?
June 12, 2014: Your Outlet Knows: How Smart Meters Can Reveal Behavior at Home, What We Watch on TV
June 11, 2014: Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices
June 10, 2014: Consultant: Alpine Energy Group Got A Sneak Peek At Lubbock Power &Light’s Request For Proposals
June 11, 2014: Lamesa, Texas Is One Of Four Areas Eyed For Solar Farm
June 11, 2014: Businesses Could Go Solar Without Any Upfront Costs Using New Texas PACE Program
June 11, 2014: Decision Delayed On Austin Energy’s Plans For $67 Million Building
June 11, 2014: GDP Growth Slowed In Texas Last Year, Government Report Says
June 11, 2014: Texas Governor Rick Perry Visits California In Push For Tesla Battery Factory
June 11, 2014: Challenges Of Converging U.S. Gas, Power Markets
June 11, 2014: Convergence: Smart Grid And Smart Cities
June 11, 2014: Warren Buffett: “There’s Another $15 Billion Ready To Go” For Solar, Wind Power
June 10, 2014: U.S. Senate Lauds Texas For Measure That Increases Energy
June 10, 2014: Sharyland Reports Suspension of Disconnects for Non-Pay in New Choice Areas Due to ESI ID Confusion
June 10, 2014: Mexico’s Economic Transformation Means Change For Texas
June 10, 2014: Southern Co-ops Repairing Storm Damage
June 10, 2014: Texas Wind Farm Developer Working On A Compromise
June 10, 2014: Google Said to Plan Energy Push With Tools for Utilities
June 10, 2014: Fitch Affirms Calpine at ‘B+’; Outlook Stable
June 10, 2014: Exelon Announces Common Stock and Equity Units Offerings
June 10, 2014: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Tries To Woo Tesla In Sacramento
June 9, 2014: How Will EPA Regulations Affect Texas? Straus Wants To Get To The Bottom Of It.
June 9, 2014: Thousands Lose Electricity In North Texas Storms
June 9, 2014: Oncor Reports About 9,000 Still Without Power In DFW
June 9, 2014: Buffett Ready to Double $15 Billion Solar, Wind Bet
June 6, 2014: Weakest Link In EPA’s Climate Rule?
June 6, 2014: Questions Of Jurisdiction, Responsibility May Foreshadow Legal Trouble For New EPA Power Plant Rule
June 6, 2014: Texas Cash-From-Carbon Program Lures Climate Skeptics
June 7, 2014: Wind Power On Tap To Help Texas Meet Carbon Reduction Goals
June 7, 2014: Tesla could bet on Texas or Reno
June 6, 2014: Obama’s Pick To Lead FERC Fends Off Critics, Piques More Questions
Power Grid Security
June 11, 2014: “Suspicious Device” Explodes At Nogales Power Plant
June 11, 2014: APPA, Others Voice Support For Draft Cybersecurity Bill In Senate
June 9, 2014: Expertise Needed to Ensure Physical Security of Nation’s Electric Grid
Renewable Power
June 12, 2014: NRG Energy Completes Collaborative Solar Project to Sell Community Clean Energy to 2,200 California Homes
June 12, 2014: Sierra Club Launches Wind Energy Jobs Ad Campaign
June 11, 2014: Southern Research Institute Builds Solar Research Center
June 11, 2014: US Wind Power Market: Increasing Government Assistance And Demand For Electricity Will Benefit The Industry
June 11, 2014: Home Solar Power With Power Storage Will Disrupt Utilities Say Barclay’s As They Downgrade Bonds
June 11, 2014: Solar Tariffs Aid U.S. Firms, But Not the Environment
June 10, 2014: OCI Solar Power Signs $40 Million Loan Agreement For 39.6 MW Texan PV Project
June 10, 2014: Campus Showcases High-Performance Buildings
June 10, 2014: Algae Underfunded In Energy Hunt
June 10, 2014: Is This Odd-Looking Wind Turbine The Most Efficient You Can Buy?
June 10, 2014: Warren Buffett Plans To Double Wind Energy, Solar Power Investment
June 10, 2014: NREL Finds Up to 6-cent per Kilowatt-Hour Extra Value with Concentrated Solar Power
June 9, 2014: OCI Solar Power Inks Loan Agreement to Build Alamo 4 Solar Park
June 9, 2014: Exotic, Highly-Efficient Solar Cells May Soon Get Cheaper
June 9, 2014: Solar Concept Paves Way For Energy Production
June 6, 2014: Wind Energy Helps Texas Rancher Cope With Costs
June 7, 2014: Peter Glaser, Who Envisioned Space Solar Power, Dies at 90
June 7, 2014: Lebanon Looks To Change Trash To Energy
June 6, 2014: Solar Roadways: Optimizing The Use Of Public Space For Power Generation
Emerging Technologies
June 11, 2014: Energy Storage Enhances Power’s Value For Everyone, Association Panelists Say
June 10, 2014: Solar Panels Made Cheaper And Lighter By New Class Of Nanoparticles
Outside Texas
June 12, 2014: Fukushima Fires Up Atomic Industry’s Removal-of-Liability Drive
June 12, 2014: Pioneering Nuclear Power Researcher Bookends Year With Honors
June 11, 2014: Nuclear Industry Launches PR Push to Cover Its Assets
June 11, 2014: US Nuclear Output Holds Near 4-Month High At 95%
June 10, 2014: GE Energy Unit Invests In Japan’s Renewable Power Market
Other News
June 12, 2014: The ‘New Normal’ For North Texas Water Use
June 12, 2014: Texas Rep Partners with Food Bank to Fight Childhood Hunger This Summer
June 12, 2014: Panhandle Wind Holdings 2 to Issue Passive Interest to JPMorgan Entities
June 10, 2014: Mesquite Creek Wind LLC Registers at PGC with PUCT
June 10, 2014: Google’s Driverless Car Will Need More Testing, Watchdog Group Warns
June 9, 2014: New Solar Generator Files for Registration with the PUCT
June 8, 2014: Direct Energy Teams with Nest
June 9, 2014: NRG Energy Employees Generate ‘Volunteer Power’ for NRG Global Giving Day
June 9, 2014: Texas Retail Provider Names Retail Veteran As Vice President of Operations
June 8, 2014: First Take On Prioritizing Water Projects
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For the Week of 5/30/14 — 6/6/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
June 5, 2014: Energy Future Wins Final Approval of $4.475 Billion Loan
June 5, 2014: Bankrupt Energy Future Says Resolves Objections To Financing
June 5, 2014: Judge set to OK loans for Energy Future Holdings
June 5, 2014: EFH Creditors Drop Objection To DIP Financing
June 5, 2014: Businesses That Make Mistakes Have To Pay A Price, like Proton and EFH
June 1, 2014: BlackRock Has $903 Million in Junior Energy Future Notes
June 3, 2014: Energy Future Defends $9.9 Billion Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Financing
June 3, 2014: LBOs Face Their Day of Reckoning
May 30, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Protest Bankruptcy Financing
May 31, 2014: Oncor Bets On A Better Grid
Generation Adequacy
June 5, 2014: ERCOT Clears Nextera To Retire 2 Texas Wind Power Projects
June 5, 2014: North American Development Bank Signs $40 Million Loan for Solar Park in Bracketville, Texas
June 3, 2014: New Obama Power Plant Rules Will Raise Your Electric Rates, Hurt Texas Economy
June 4, 2014: Nation’s Biggest Carbon Emitter Is Well-Positioned To Weather EPA Rule
June 4, 2014: Beyond Coal — Where Does Texas Go Next And What Are The Drawbacks?
June 4, 2014: Coal Battle Could Be Biggest In Texas
June 4, 2014: It’s Not The Biggest, But Coal Is A Large Piece Of Texas Energy Production
June 4, 2014: For GE, Winds Of Change At EPA Blow Both Ways
June 4, 2014: Power Plant Rule A Tipping Point For Clean Energy Economy
June 4, 2014: Technology, Not Regulation, Will Kill Coal Fired Power
June 4, 2014: Texas Wind Energy Continues to Blow Us Away
June 3, 2014: What Proposed Carbon Rules Mean for Texas
June 3, 2014: Natural Gas Looks Like A Winner In New Carbon Plan
June 3, 2014: McConnell Introduces Bill To Thwart Obama Plan To Reduce Emissions From Power Plants
June 3, 2014: Area Power Station Evaluating Effect Of Greenhouse Proposal
June 3, 2014: Obama’s Carbon Crackdown Small Threat To Utilities
June 3, 2014: EPA Regs Threaten To Close Coal-Fired Power Plants, But States Push Back
June 3, 2014: Why Wi-Fi is a Natural Fit for Demand Response
June 3, 2014: Weighing the ZigBee Broadband Gateway Solution for Demand Response
June 2, 2014: Texas Faces Steep Cut (39% by 2030) in Climate Plan
June 2, 2014: GOP pushes hard against new EPA carbon rules; Cruz, Perry Smith blast Obama
June 2, 2014: Perry, Cruz blast Obama’s EPA proposal
June 2, 2014: Texas Attorney General Plans To Fight New EPA Rule
June 2, 2014: EPA’s Carbon Plan Isn’t Perfect, But It Moves Forward An Otherwise Stagnant Debate
June 2, 2014: Texas Will Be At Center Of CO2 Stage
June 2, 2014: Texas Needs Biggest Cut to Comply With Climate Plan
June 2, 2014: Texas Clean Coal Plant May Be Environmental Game Changer
June 2, 2014: Obama’s Demand For Lower Carbon Emissions Could Have Severe Consequences For Texas
June 2, 2014: EPA Draft CO2 Regulations Provide Flexibility, but Greater Role for Demand Response and Smart Grid Needed
June 2, 2014: Carbon Reduction Requires Big Role for Nuclear Energy
June 2, 2014: Nuclear Power, Natural Gas Drillers Like Exxon Mobil Surprise Beneficiaries Of Obama Rule
June 2, 2014: El Paso Electric In Good Shape To Meet CO2 Reduction Plan, CEO Says
June 2, 2014: Calpine Supports Proposed EPA Clean Power Plan
May 30, 2014: No Electric Bill Shock for ERCOT Customers From This Charge-Up (At Least Not Currently)
June 2, 2014: FERC Concedes Capacity Market “[F]orc[es] Consumers to Pay for Capacity Without Receiving Commensurate Reliability Benefits”
June 2, 2014: FERC Approves Sloped Demand Curve for New England Capacity Market
June 2, 2014: Obama Administration Unveils Controversial Emissions Cap On Power Plants
June 1, 2014: How Texas Will Fare Under New Emissions Rules Is Complicated
June 1, 2014: Texas House Lawmakers To EPA: We Handle Climate Policy, Not You
June 1, 2014: Why The EPA’s New Power Plant Rules Could Be Good News For Houston
June 1, 2014: States Move To Blunt Obama Carbon Reduction Plan
May 30, 2014: Greens Plan Huge Push For President Obama’s Climate Plan
May 30, 2014: Carbon Rules To Boost Exelon, But Not Soon Enough
May 30, 2014: Top Coal-Power Operator, AEP, Expects Plant Closures On Obama Plan
May 30, 2014: AEP, Duke Top Power Plant Carbon Pollution List
Headlines
June 5, 2014: EPA Delays Final Decision About Uranium Mining In Goliad, Texas
June 5, 2014: Clean Energy Project In Texas Looks To Clean Up Coal
June 5, 2014: Buffett’s $26 Billion Power Bet Seen Paying Off
June 5, 2014: Distributed Solar Thrives Online In Deregulated Electricity Markets
June 5, 2014: Fitch Affirms Brazos Electric Cooperative at ‘A’; Outlook Stable
June 5, 2014: Dynegy Among Bidders for Duke Energy Midwestern Power Plants
June 5, 2014: Why Dynegy (DYN) Stock Is Rising Today
June 5, 2014: California To Mount Aggressive Bid For Tesla Battery Plant
June 5, 2014: Nuclear Giant Exelon Blasts Wind
June 4, 2014: Consumer Advocates Scrutinize Prepaid Electricity Plans
June 4, 2014: Texas Lawmakers Ironing Out Water Fund Plan
June 4, 2014: Solar Power Gains Momentum After Long Struggle In Texas
June 4, 2014: NRG Yield, Inc. to Acquire Largest Wind Farm in North America
June 3, 2014: Texas Representative Turner Urges Low-Income Texans To Enroll In State Electricity Discount Program
June 3, 2014: Co-op Helps Educate Firefighters on Solar Dangers
June 3, 2014: NRG Nears $800M-Plus Deal to Buy Alta Wind Energy Center
June 2, 2014: Texas Legislators Keeping Water Rights, Drought At Forefront For Next Session
June 2, 2014: Wind Farm Company Halts Texas SPI Project
June 2, 2014: 33,000 SF blows into Lubbock’s Wind Power Center
June 2, 2014: Fitch Rates Southwestern Public Service Co.’s $150MM FMBs ‘A-’; Outlook Stable
June 2, 2014: Groups Request Independent Assessment Of PNM Plan
June 2, 2014: Nuclear Giant Exelon Launches Front Group to Cover Its Assets
June 2, 2014: FERC Proposes New Policy Restricting Third-Party Use of Interconnection Facilities
June 2, 2014: Fitch: EPA Proposal May Keep Pressure on Coal Power in Long Term
June 2, 2014: EPA’s Clean Power Rule Must Ensure Electricity Remains Affordable and Reliable, says American Public Power Association
June 2, 2014: EPA Carbon Rules Will Show Environmentalists and Nuclear Are Not Such Strange Bedfellows
June 2, 2014: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s Power Plant Emission Rule
June 2, 2014: How Obama’s Power Plant Regulations Will Transform Our Electric Grid
June 2, 2014: Texas Staff: REPs Have Duty to Inform Customers of Distribution Charges
June 2, 2014: NRG Energy Moved Up The Ranks Of Top U.S. Electricity Sellers In North America
May 29, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces an Increase in the Quarterly Dividend
May 30, 2014: Houston Strikes Deals With Centerpoint For LED Lights, Bike Trails
May 30, 2014: OCI Solar, A Provider to CPS Energy, Details Layoff
May 29, 2014: Wind Power Center at Lubbock Announces Expansion
Power Grid Security
June 2, 2014: How Much Harm Could a Moderately Skilled Hacker Cause to Critical Nuclear Systems?
Renewable Power
June 5, 2014: New Group Pushes To End Renewable Power Credit
June 5, 2014: Cellular Base Stations to Use Renewable Energy Resources
June 5, 2014: Wind Energy Gets More Support In The US
June 5, 2014: Solar Energy Installations Continue To Grow In The US
June 4, 2014: Affordable Wind Power The Reality
June 4, 2014: Paper Describes New Concept In Wind Power Harnessing
June 4, 2014: Wind Power Fact Sheet
June 4, 2014: Concentrated Solar Power (Csp) In 2013 Increased By Nearly 0.9 GW, Up 36%, To More Than 3.4 GW
June 4, 2014: US Hits China With New Solar Tax
June 3, 2014: Hybrid Fuel Claims Often Inflated: Consumer Reports
June 2, 2014: Are Solar Sails The Future Of Space Travel?
June 2, 2014: 2 Big Hints That US Offshore Wind Power Will Dominate
June 2, 2014: Statement from First Wind regarding EPA Rules about Carbon Emissions
June 2, 2014: Wind Power Helps Xcel Energy Slash Carbon Emissions
June 2, 2014: First Solar Launches Pre-Engineered PV Plant Solution, Next Generation Module
June 2, 2014: US Solar PV Installations Up Nearly 80% In Q1’14
June 2, 2014: Northern Power Systems’ Technology Powers New 3.3MW Wind Turbine
June 2, 2014: Solar Energy Represents 74% Of All New U.S. Electricity Generation In 1st Quarter Of 2014
May 29, 2014: Fracking Sucks Money From Wind While China Eclipses U.S.
May 30, 2014: A New Strategy to Drive Down the “Soft Costs” of Solar
May 30, 2014: Rapid Solar Growth Offers Hope In Fight Against Climate Change
May 30, 2014: The Future of Solar Economics and Policy
May 28, 2014: Solar Energy Primed to Help U.S. Meet Future Energy Needs
May 30, 2014: Why SunPower’s Colorado Project Is a Big Deal
May 30, 2014: US Solar PV Installations Up Nearly 80% In Q1’14
May 30, 2014: Sunshot Charges Forward To Tackle Solar Challenges!
May 30, 2014: Wind Power Is A Cost-Effective Way To Reduce Emissions
Emerging Technologies
June 3, 2014: Texas Researchers Tout New Carbon Powder Material As Anti-Pollution Breakthrough
June 4, 2014: Siemens delivering four industrial steam turbines in Enhanced Platform Design
June 2, 2014: Composite Electric Lines To Replace Aluminum Conductor And Steel Lines
Outside Texas
June 3, 2014: World’s Energy Bill To Hit $48 Trillion By 2035: IEA
Other News
June 6, 2014: Calpine Agrees to $10,000 Fine for RUC-Related Violations
June 5, 2014: Texas Rep Includes Free Identity Protection Services With Energy Plan
June 5, 2014: Texas Rep Urges Customers to Lock in Natural Gas Rates Now
June 5, 2014: Retail Supplier Hires Veteran Energy Expert as Head of Supply and Trading
June 5, 2014: NEC Retail gives back to Veteran’s
June 4, 2014: Morgan Stanley to Pay Fine Related to Non-Spinning Reserve in ERCOT
June 4, 2014: Texas Rep Introduces Flat Electricity Bills with its new Predictable 12 Plan
June 2, 2014: Texas Rep Offers Summer Relief with Beat the Heat Centers, Assistance Programs
June 4, 2014: Direct Energy Business Signs Partnership Agreement with BuildingIQ for HVAC Energy Monitoring and Analytics Solution
June 4, 2014: Aurora Algae Farm Throws Down Green Guantlet In Oil State
June 3, 2014: Committee Urges Austin Water Utility: Cut Costs, Consider Drought Fee
June 3, 2014: Retail Supplier Providing Free Smart Thermostat in Piloting New A/C Cycling Program
June 3, 2014: Texas REP Now Offering Astros Plans
June 2, 2014: QSE Fined for Failure to Meet Contracted Interruptible Load Service in ERCOT
June 2, 2014: Texas REP Agrees to Pay $10,000 Fine for Violations
June 2, 2014: Newly Registered Self-Generator; Pattern Panhandle Wind to Issue Equity Interests
June 2, 2014: Texas Rep Expands Portable Power Stations to Levitt Pavilion (DFW)
June 2, 2014: Settlement Filed in Retail Supplier Bankruptcy Case
June 2, 2014: Volkswagen To Enter U.S. Electric Market With E-Golf
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For the Week of 5/23/14 — 5/30/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
May 30, 2014: Energy Future Holdings’ Second Lien Bondholders Vie to Control DIP
May 27, 2014: Energy Future Says Fidelity May Fund $500 Million of Loan
May 25, 2014: Energy Future Starts Moving Pieces on Chapter 11 Chessboard
May 22, 2014: Apollo, Oaktree Hold $2.7 Billion in Energy Future Claims
May 23, 2014: Energy Future Seeks to File Debt-Plan Details June 13
Generation Adequacy
May 30, 2014: Texas Already Setting Wind Power Records With 8,000 More MW Planned By 2017
May 29, 2014: GDF Suez Unit Buys U.S Energy Efficiency Firm Ecova
May 29, 2014: Polar Vortex Still Pushing Power Prices Up
May 29, 2014: How Electricity Auctions are Rigged to Favor Industry
May 29, 2014: On Eve of New EPA Carbon Regs, Survey Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support Modernizing the U.S. Electricity System
May 29, 2014: PNM Says It Is Ready To Meet Anticipated EPA Emissions Rule
May 29, 2014: Xcel Energy Surpasses National Carbon Emissions Reduction Goal
May 29, 2014: Looming EPA Power Plant Rules Fuel Industry Concerns
May 29, 2014: Texas U.S. Reps Push Back Against Pollution Rules
May 29, 2014: EPA Releases Climate Report In Anticipation Of New Power Plant Regulation
May 29, 2014: Study: Little Risk of Asset Stranding from Obama’s June 2 Clean Air Act Regulation
May 29, 2014: Direct Voices Support for “Robust” Capacity Market; Will It Defend Market Against Higher Price Caps
May 28, 2014: Cutting Carbon: States Can Use What they’ve Already Got to Whittle Power Plant Emissions
May 28, 2014: EPA to Limit CO2 Pollution, U.S. Wind Energy Already Helps States to Comply
May 28, 2014: Wave Of New Generation Clearing PJM Auction Could Depress Power Prices
May 27, 2014: Expert Sees Opportunity For Texas With Climate Rules
May 27, 2014: Wind Giant Texas Stands Tall As Rule Change Looms
May 27, 2014: Obama Set to Release New Carbon Regulations
May 27, 2014: Senators Call On EPA To Halt Coal Killing Rule
May 27, 2014: What the Court Decision on FERC Order 745 Means for Demand Response
May 27, 2014: Auction Results Place Exelon Nuclear Power Plants In Jeopardy
May 28, 2014: Retail Suppliers Slam Generator’s Bid to Recover Costs Not Allowed Under PJM Tariff
May 23, 2014: LCRA’s Fayette Power Project Wins International Award for Reliability, Efficiency
May 23, 2014: How Green Energy Won Out Over Fossil Fuels in a Red State
May 23, 2014: GE To Supply Turbines For 400MW Texas Wind Project
May 23, 2014: Delay EPA Power Plant Rules, Senators Demand
May 23, 2014: Federal Court Throws Out FERC Effort to Boost Demand Response
May 27, 2014: Generator Immediately Seeks to Apply Court Ruling on Demand Response to Capacity Market
May 23, 2014: PJM Capacity Market Secures New And Diverse Resources To Meet Future Electricity Demand
May 27, 2014: Capacity Prices Double in Latest PJM Auction
Headlines
May 29, 2014: NRG Settlement Agreement and Voluntary Mitigation Plan Filed at PUCT
May 29, 2014: Reliant Hopes You’ll Give Up Some Control Of The Thermostat
May 29, 2014: Could Smart Power Lines Reduce Outages?
May 29, 2014: Co-ops Prepare to Push Smart Grid Forward
May 29, 2014: 3 Ways General Electric Company Will Rule the Future Economy
May 29, 2014: Solar Plant Seen As Economic Boost in West Texas
May 30, 2014: Concerns Aplenty On Nuclear Waste in Texas
May 28, 2014: Critical improvements for Power for the Plains
May 28, 2014: The Real Threat to the Electric Power Grid Is Not Terrorism
May 28, 2014: NERC Examining Reliability Impact Of Renewables
May 28, 2014: Shale Boom Won’t Budge Utility Bills—Or Stocks
May 28, 2014: President Said to Be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule
May 28, 2014: Texans In Congress Challenge New EPA Rules On Power Plant Emissions
May 28, 2014: U.S. Industry Gears Up To Fight Obama’s Climate Change Rules
May 27, 2014: Texas Residents Sick of Bio-Waste Aroma, Inaction By State
May 27, 2014: Inside Energy: Clean Coal in West Texas
May 27, 2014: Put Communications Front and Center at Your Co-op
May 23, 2014: LCRA Approves 2014 Business Plan That Promises $148 Million Savings For Wholesale Customers
May 23, 2014: College Station City Council Urged To Hold Of On New ‘Smart’ Meters
May 23, 2014: NRG Energy Expands Portfolio of Professional Football Stadiums Equipped with Sustainable Energy Solutions
May 23, 2014: No Support For Eliminating Texas Small-Fish-Swim-Free Rule
May 23, 2014: Texas Staff Proposes Options for Next Steps in Docket on REPs’ Sharing of Customer Info. With Third Parties
May 23, 2014: NextEra Energy Board Declares Quarterly Dividend
May 26, 2014: At EPA, It’s Get Sued, Then Crack Down
Renewable Power
May 29, 2014: Students Blow through Wind Power in Free Virtual Lab
May 29, 2014: Walmart to Double Solar Power Projects in U.S
May 28, 2014: Solar: The future of energy?
May 28, 2014: Walmart To Double Number Of Solar Projects
May 28, 2014: Green Hygienics : Follow Warren Buffet and General Electric Into the Wind Power Space
May 28, 2014: Wind Energy In 2013 Was Equivalent To Taking 20 Million Cars Off The Road
May 28, 2014: Solar Power Primed To Meet US Energy Needs, Says SEIA
May 27, 2014: Can Solar Compete in Retail Energy Choice Markets?
May 27, 2014: New Mexico Biofuel Plant Catches Fire
May 27, 2014: The Upside of Alternative Energy MLPs
May 27, 2014: Wind Energy Is One Of The Biggest, Fastest, Cheapest Ways States Can Meet Carbon Pollution Rule For Existing Power Plants
May 27, 2014: Sprint Recognized by DOE for Energy Reduction
May 27, 2014: DOE Highlights Success With Concentrating Solar Power Technology Through Loan Guarantee Program
May 25, 2014: Texas, Idaho, California Take Clean Energy Lead
May 26, 2014: Gas Stations in San Antonio Being Powered By Renewable Fuels
May 26, 2014: Austin Energy Switches Company, But Groundbreaking Solar Deal Moves On
May 23, 2014: DOE Awards $10 Million for Concentrating Solar Power Storage Research
May 23, 2014: Capital One Bank Invests $100 Million in SolarCity Fund to Provide Solar Power To Thousands of U.S. Homeowners
May 22, 2014: Enervault Unveils ‘Flow Battery’ For Solar Energy Storage
Emerging Technologies
May 29, 2014: Power Up Your Device Without Plugging In
May 28, 2014: Clariant and Siemens to Introduce New Sour Gas Shift Technology for Coal Gasification
May 27, 2014: Superconductor Discovery Points To Energy Efficient Power Transmission
May 27, 2014: $470M Power plant worth its salt in Anderson County
May 23, 2014: A Breakthrough In Power Plant Waste Heat Conversion
Outside Texas
May 29, 2014: Combined Heat and Power Even More Appealing Amid Spiking Utility Prices
May 29, 2014: States Set Ambitious Target For Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales
May 29, 2014: Federal nuclear facilities safety board calls for safety changes at Savannah River Site
May 27, 2014: One Of America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants Had Some Dire Predictions. It Was Wrong
May 27, 2014: Podesta’s Challenge Puts EPA Funding On Hot Seat
May 27, 2014: “Clean Gas” More Dangerous Than Coal
May 23, 2014: New Nuclear Emergency Center Opens
May 23, 2014: US Plants Prepare Long-Term Nuclear Waste Storage
May 23, 2014: Cause Of Poor DOE Estimates Investigated By Advisory Board
May 23, 2014: Forget Saving the Planet, Driving an Electric Car Will Save Your Life
Other News
May 29, 2014: Texas REP Teaches New Homeowners, Recent Graduates How to Buy Electricity in Texas
May 29, 2014: 7 in 10 Sharyland Utilities Customers Make An Active Choice as Competition Introduced
May 28, 2014: Two Texas REPs Change Financial Qualifications
May 28, 2014: One Texas REP Ceasing Operations, Other Group of REPs Designate Affiliate to Provide POLR Service
May 28, 2014: New Power Generation Company Registers with Texas PUC
May 26, 2014: GBRA And LCRA Join Forces In Strategic Partnership
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For the Week of 5/16/14 — 5/23/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
May 22, 2014: Energy Future Postpones Hearing On Restructuring Agreement
May 22, 2014: Energy Future Bankruptcy to Remain in Delaware
May 22, 2014: Apollo, Oaktree Hold $2.7 Billion in Energy Future Claims
May 22, 2014: Luminant Launches New Advertising Campaign Featuring “Powering Texas” Pride
May 20, 2014: TXU Energy Says Customers Largely Unaffected By Bankruptcy Court Notice
May 20, 2014: Energy Future Hit With Make-Whole Litigation
May 19, 2014: The Real Lesson From the EFH Bankruptcy
May 17, 2014: Energy Future Sued Over Bankruptcy Refinance Plan
May 17, 2014: Creditors Sue Energy Future For $665 Million
May 17, 2014: Fitch Rates Oncor’s Senior Notes ‘BBB+’; Outlook Stable
Generation Adequacy
May 22, 2014: Transmission Line Could Expand Texas Wind Market
May 22, 2014: Pattern Development Receives Final FERC Approval for Southern Cross Transmission Project
May 22, 2014: Cleaner Air Could Mean Higher Electric Bills
May 22, 2014: Midwest Electricity Declines as Use Below Day-Ahead Forecast
May 22, 2014: EPA Rules That Water Cooling Options At Plants Are Up To States
May 21, 2014: Development Generating Need For Power in Katy
May 21, 2014: New Generation Power Texas Selects GE for Major Wind Turbine Supply Agreement
May 21, 2014: Texas Wind Boosted with Improved Public Planning
May 21, 2014: Predicting The Impact Of EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Effluent Limits
May 21, 2014: Power Prices Could Be On The Rise As Pollution Rules Tighten, Nation Turns More To Natural Gas
May 21, 2014: EPA Is Readying Climate Rule For Existing Power Plants As Deadline Approaches
May 21, 2014: Midwest, Mid-Atlantic Power Gains as Demand Exceeds Forecasts
May 20, 2014: Profits, Not Subsidies, Will Keep The Lights On In Texas
May 20, 2014: Active ERCOT Generation Interconnection Requests Climb Again
May 19, 2014: Wind Leads Renewable Energy Increase in Texas
May 17, 2014: Texas Utility Regulators Expect To Open Investigation On Wind ‘Cost Apportionment’
May 17, 2014: FERC Staff: Market Expects Higher Power Prices This Summer
May 16, 2014: NERC Sees Adequate Power Supply For Summer Peaks, But Lower Reserve Margins In Texas And The Midwest
May 17, 2014: FERC Order Gives Boost To Major New Line That Will Deliver Texas Wind Energy To Southeast
May 17, 2014: FERC Final Order Directing Interconnection and Transmission Service re Southern Cross Transmission LLC
May 17, 2014: Austin Energy Switches From SunEdison to Recurrent for 5-Cent Solar
Headlines
May 22, 2014: Fitch Rates San Antonio City Public Service’s (TX) Elec & Gas Sys Junior Lien Revs ‘AA+’
May 22, 2014: Entergy Prepares for Storm Season in Weeklong Drill
May 22, 2014: Xcel Completes $64M Interstate Power Line
May 22, 2014: Settlement With NRG Energy Subsidiary Energy Plus Nets State $4.5M For Enforcement in Connecticut
May 22, 2014: Obama Divides Power Players Over Climate as Utilities Engage
May 22, 2014: Pressure Grows For Building A Centralized Nuclear Waste Repository
May 22, 2014: Nuclear Industry Opens Phoenix Response Center to Enhance Plant Safety
May 21, 2014: TXU Energy Says Energy Management is Key in the Internet of Things
May 21, 2014: Largest Us Municipal Utility Wants To Add Us$500+ Rooftop Fees In San Antonio
May 21, 2014: Sierra Club Sues EPA, Seeks Tougher Pollution Controls In North Texas
May 21, 2014: NRG Energy Poised Evenly
May 21, 2014: Calpine Advances Succession Plans with Promotions of Senior Leaders
May 21, 2014: Xcel Energy Inc. Board Declares Dividend on Common Stock
May 20, 2014: CPS To Add Solar Fees
May 20, 2014: Buyouts May Trim A Fourth Of CPS’ Workers
May 20, 2014: Texas Nuke Site Increases Monitoring Of Containers
May 20, 2014: Lawmakers Scrutinize Nominee to Head Federal Electricity Regulator
May 20, 2014: Obama FERC Nominee Faces The Heat
May 20, 2014: NRG Energy Rating Lowered to Neutral at Zacks
May 20, 2014: Co-op Marketing Pro Gives Tips for Tight Budgets
May 20, 2014: Better East Texas: Congress Flip Flops Over Domestic Energy
May 19, 2014: ETT Files Application To Build Transmission Line From Barney Davis Substation To Naval Base Substation
May 19, 2014: Back To Basics At FERC
May 19, 2014: Why Electric and Natural-Gas Cars Will Gain Traction
May 19, 2014: Utility Spending on Smart Grid as a Service Will Total $57.6 Billion from 2014 through 2023, Forecasts Navigant Research
May 17, 2014: Plug-In Rebates Finally Come to Texas, But Not For Tesla
May 17, 2014: Entergy Texas, Inc. Announces Redemption of All Outstanding First Mortgage Bonds, 7.875% Series due June 1, 2039
May 17, 2014: Feds Looking To Make ‘Risky’ Tech Loans
May 17, 2014: Obama’s FERC Problem Isn’t Going Away
May 17, 2014: FERC Enforcement: The Pit And The Pendulum
May 17, 2014: Next Decade To Be Very Chaotic For Investor-Owned Utilities, Panel Says
May 17, 2014: Obama To Personally Push EPA Emission Rules
May 17, 2014: EPA Races To Finish Obama Rules
Power Grid Security
May 20, 2014: Cybercrime Case Names U.S. Steel, Westinghouse, Alcoa As Victims
May 20, 2014: U.S. Utility’s Control System Was Hacked, Says Homeland Security
May 20, 2014: Westinghouse’s Data Stolen Despite Big Deal With China
May 20, 2014: Survey Finds Energy Firms Taking Cyber Threat Seriously
May 20, 2014: NRC, FERC Commissioners to Discuss Grid Reliability, Reactor Issues May 28 in Rockville, Md
May 17, 2014: U.S. Industry Too Complacent About Cyber Risks, Say Experts
Renewable Power
May 22, 2014: Texas Nearly Takes Top Clean Energy Jobs Spot
May 22, 2014: Why Is The US Wind Industry In The Doldrums?
May 22, 2014: 2 Companies Capturing America’s Offshore Wind Opportunity
May 22, 2014: DOE Continues to Push Concentrating Solar Power Systems
May 22, 2014: Capital One Bank Invests $100MM to Provide Solar Power
May 22, 2014: Solar Booms Beyond White House To Mega U.S. Projects
May 21, 2014: Houston NRG Park Set To Go Green
May 21, 2014: High Winds Could Mean High Revenue In Texas
May 21, 2014: USDA Announces Support for Renewable Biomass Energy
May 21, 2014: New Permits Sought For 2 Tidal Power Dam Projects In Cobscook Bay
May 21, 2014: USGS Pinpoints American Wind Turbines—And Shares With You
May 20, 2014: These Are Not Your Father’s Solar Panels
May 20, 2014: Cox Enterprises Announces National Employee Solar Program
May 20, 2014: Maintaining Turbine Efficiency: Guarding Against Premature Wear
May 20, 2014: ET Solar Launches Cell Optimizer Module Globally
May 20, 2014: Edison Electric Institute Members Lobbying For Solar Taxes
May 20, 2014: Siemens Signs Three-Year Charter For New Jack-Up Vessel, Purpose-Built For Service
May 20, 2014: Planting The “SEEDS” Of Solar Technology In The Home
May 20, 2014: Modi to Use Solar to Bring Power to Every Home by 2019
May 20, 2014: Helotes Students Take First Place At Solar Race
May 19, 2014: Scotland Set To Build First Floating Wind Farm In World
May 19, 2014: Scottish Islands Provide a Proving Ground for Power From the Ocean
May 19, 2014: SgurrEnergy Demonstrates Method to Cut the Cost of Offshore Wind Power Curve Tests
May 19, 2014: Wind Energy Company WindEco Launches New Website, Wind-eco.com, to Educate Investors
May 19, 2014: NASA Uses Solar Power To Get Crippled Kepler Back To Work
May 19, 2014: HP’s Corporate Headquarters Teaming With SolarCity To Go Solar
May 17, 2014: Texas Instruments Launches C2000 Solar Micro Inverter Development Kit
May 17, 2014: NRG Energy Unit Builds Solar Array in Rutland
May 17, 2014: How The Army Solar Power Program Is Like The Affordable Care Act
May 17, 2014: A New Solar Investment Paying You Cash
May 17, 2014: Proposed IRS Rule Could Allow Solar Energy REITs
May 17, 2014: SunPower’s CEO, Tom Werner, Talks Solar’s Next Big Thing
Emerging Technologies
May 20, 2014: Electric Grid, You Have Software Updates Available
May 20, 2014: Power, Pipeline Companies Find Efficiency, Flexibility In Multiparty Contract
May 19, 2014: New LYTSwitch-2 Isolated LED-Driver ICs from Power Integrations Deliver More Output Power and Greater Accuracy
May 19, 2014: Silicon Labs Eases Smart Meter Design with Wireless M-Bus Software
May 19, 2014: Smart Meter Technologies, Malaysia and EnVerv Announce their Collaboration on Range of Smart Meter Products
May 19, 2014: Cars Could Drive Themselves Sooner Than Expected After European Push
Outside Texas
May 22, 2014: Nominations Now Open for Energy Storage North America 2014 Innovation Awards
May 21, 2014: Mexico’s National Power Utility Plans Natural Gas Sales
May 21, 2014: Electric-Car Charging Program Hits Speed Bump
May 21, 2014: House Receives Final Rules from Energy Department, Treasury Department
May 21, 2014: Biggest Market By Value For Distribution Services Market Are For Contracting Services
May 20, 2014: NEI’s Incoming Chairman Cites Nuclear Energy’s Value to Electricity Diversity, Reliability
May 20, 2014: Nuclear Outages Could Pick Up In H2’14 But With Modest Impact To Gas Demand
May 20, 2014: Green Appeal of Nuclear Means Hope for Burned Uranium Shares
May 20, 2014: NRDC: New EPA Water Intake Rule Too Weak, Fails to Protect Aquatic Life
May 19, 2014: AEP Launches Seismic Risk Studies At Cook Nuclear Power Plant
May 19, 2014: Power Plant Owners Get EPA Options to Prevent Fish Kills
May 17, 2014: NRG eVgo Introduces New Convenience To Electric Vehicle Charging
May 17, 2014: Hot Nuclear Waste, Cold Hard Cash, And You
May 17, 2014: NRC Too Lenient on Spent Nuclear Fuel, Safety Exemptions, Senators Say
May 15, 2014: Govt Halts Fee For Non-Existent Nuke Waste Site After 30 Years And $43 Bn Collected
Other News
May 23, 2014: Proposed Order for REP Violation Corrected by PUCT Staff
May 23, 2014: New Application Filed at the PUCT for Retail Electric Provider Certification
May 22, 2014: Co-ops Use Data to Improve Member Services
May 21, 2014: Texas Retail Provider Ceasing Operations and Relinquishing Certificate
May 21, 2014: Google Mulls Ads On Thermostats: Is The Smart Home Doomed?
May 21, 2014: Google S.E.C. Filing Says It Wants Ads In Your Thermostat and Car
May 21, 2014: TCEQ Rejects LCRA Water Plan, Suggests Fewer Downsteam Releases
May 20, 2014: Calpine Advances Succession Plans with Promotions of Senior Leaders
May 20, 2014: San Angelo City Council Oks Wastewater Reuse Study
May 20, 2014: Conserving Water In The Oil Fields
May 20, 2014: TXU Energy Program Helps Cuts Business Electricity Spending by $51 Million
May 19, 2014: How Rising Seas Could Sink Nuclear Plants On The East Coast and Texas
May 15, 2014: Texas REP Settles Notice of Violation
May 17, 2014: TCEQ Rejects LCRA Water Management Plan
May 17, 2014: Race For Energy Post Deserves Voters’ Attention
May 17, 2014: $270K Grant Will Help TJC Train 133 Luminant Employees
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For the Week of 5/9/14 — 5/16/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
May 15, 2014: J.P. Morgan Snags Role on Alternative Energy Future Bankruptcy Loan
May 15, 2014: Second Lienholders in EFH Bankruptcy Oppose Deal
May 14, 2014: Energy Future Creditor Trustee Faults Financing Plan
May 14, 2014: Energy Future Top-Ranking Lenders Take Issue With Financing Plan
May 15, 2014: Energy Future Pays $23.5 Million to Retain Sidley, Kirkland
May 13, 2014: Energy Future Unsecured Creditors Form Ranks, Hire Morrison & Foerster
May 12, 2014: Energy Future Creditors Seek Seats on Bankruptcy Panel
May 12, 2014: Creditors In Energy Future’s Bankruptcy Form Official Committee
May 12, 2014: Three Bond Trustees Named to Energy Future’s Creditor Committee
May 8, 2014: Energy Future’s Oncor Electric Raises $250 Million in Bond Sale
Generation Adequacy
May 15, 2014: Mars Agrees To Construct 200 MW Wind Farm in Texas
May 15, 2014: Austin Energy Pens Pact For Texas’ Largest Solar Power Plant
May 15, 2014: Deal Sets Plan for Texas’ Largest Single Solar Facility
May 15, 2014: PV ‘Competitive’ In ERCOT Market
May 15, 2014: Calpine, NRG Aim To Sink Houston Transmission Project On Question Of Need
May 14, 2014: Electricity Prices Rise From Dallas to Boston
May 15, 2014: Proposed Texas Order Would Grant Appeal, Require ERCOT Resettlement
May 14, 2014: EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook Predicts More US Natural Gas-Fired Power Capacity
May 13, 2014: Houston-Based NRG Wins Right Operate Biomass Plant in East Texas
May 13, 2014: NextEra Energy To Shut Two Texas Wind Farms In A First For ERCOT
May 13, 2014: Opinion: The Future Of America’s Power Markets? Watch Texas
May 13, 2014: PJM Ready To Provide Power To Withstand Hot Summer Ahead
May 12, 2014: Natural Gas’ Share Of ERCOT’s Market Grows, Nuclear’s Share Drops
May 12, 2014: PJM Wins on DR, Loses on Arbitrage Fix in Late FERC Rulings
May 11, 2014: Oncor Is Testing Battery Technology On Grid
May 12, 2014: FERC Rejects PJM Changes Designed to Increase Capacity Prices By Limiting Incremental Auction Participation
May 9, 2014: AARP Analysis: Polar Vortex Grip on NY Energy Costs to Last into Summer
Headlines
May 15, 2014: TXU Energy Tells Customers: Our Efforts are ‘Inspired by You’
May 15, 2014: Telsa CEO Elon Musk Sees Nearly Unlimited Demand For Energy Storage
May 15, 2014: University Of Texas Wants To Work With Tesla’s ‘Gigafactory’
May 15, 2014: SMU Fracking Scientist Says Texas Regulators Actually Being Helpful With Earthquake Study
May 15, 2014: Neighborliness Between State And Feds On Environmental Matters
May 14, 2014: Man-Made Quakes Get a Hearing at Texas Legislature
May 13, 2014: Ideal Power Inc. from Austin, TX Announces Q1 2014 Results
May 8, 2014: Coritech Services Orders Ideal Power’s Battery Converters for DOD Vehicle-to-Grid Program
May 14, 2014: Sanders Bill Would Give States More Say in Nuclear Plant Shutdowns
May 14, 2014: Senate Bills Aim to Shield Nuclear Power Plant Waste from Sabotage
May 14, 2014: Bill Calls For Dry Storage Of Spent Fuel
May 14, 2014: Pattern Energy Announces Closing of Public Offering
May 14, 2014: North Texas Rancher’s Power Line Battle Gains Attention
May 13, 2014: TXU Energy’s Scott Hudson Urges Industry: Focus on the Fundamentals
May 13, 2014: Xcel To Invest $557M In New Mexico, West Texas
May 13, 2014: Thousands Lose Electricity In Texas Storms, Rain
May 13, 2014: Texas Lawmakers Again Consider Overhauling How Pollution Permits Are Fought
May 13, 2014: 40 Answers for EPA Carbon Rules: AEE Identifies Technology Solutions for Cutting Carbon Emissions from Electricity Generation
May 13, 2014: Coal Rules Will Devastate, Say Biz Groups
May 12, 2014: EPA’s Carbon Limits for New Power Plants Must Be ‘Grounded in Reality,’ Industry Says
May 12, 2014: 6 Electric Utilities including Austin Energy Charging A New Energy Course
May 8, 2014: Texas Electric-Car Purchase Rebates Up To $2,500 To Start Soon
May 12, 2014: Report: State Regulators Won’t Let EPA Harm Electrical Grid
May 8, 2014: Natural Gas-Powered ‘House Of The Future’ Can Generate More Electricity Than It Uses
May 12, 2014: Will Tesla ‘Gigafactory’ Fight Come Down To Texas Vs. California?
May 9, 2014: Pattern Energy Announces Pricing of Public Offering
Renewable Power
May 15, 2014: Texas Solar Farm Construction May Bring Hundreds Of Jobs
May 15, 2014: Tax Credit For Renewable Energy Confronts Congressional Headwinds
May 15, 2014: Republican Senator Chuck Grassley Promotes Wind Power On U.S. Senate Floor
May 15, 2014: Housing Authorities, Is On-Site Solar Power Right For You?
May 15, 2014: Recent Winners in the Battle for Offshore Wind
May 14, 2014: Senate Debates Wind Tax Credit
May 14, 2014: Wind Turbine Systems
May 14, 2014: Utilities Launch Campaign Against Home-Based Solar
May 13, 2014: As Wind Farm Industry Matures, Environmental Opposition Grows
May 13, 2014: The Best Way to Play Wind Energy
May 13, 2014: Kaiser Permanente Pledges More Investment In Onsite Solar Power Generation
May 13, 2014: SolarCity to Provide Clean Energy for HP’s Corporate Headquarters
May 13, 2014: NRG Energy Completes Innovative Community Solar Array
May 13, 2014: Walmart Sets the Stage with Commitment to Solar Energy
May 12, 2014: Can the Texas Solar Market Live Up to Its Potential?
May 12, 2014: More Solar Energy Powering Corporate America
May 12, 2014: Build Us A Cheap Solar Power Inverter, Take Away $1 Million: Google
May 9, 2014: Solar Seen Bailing California Out of Summer Hydro Shortage
May 9, 2014: Solar-Powered Cars A Boost For Texas STEM Students
May 9, 2014: Ag Energy Efficiency Grants, Loans Now Available
May 9, 2014: Wind Power Experts: All Things Being Equal, Industry Can Compete
May 9, 2014: Let The Sun Shine In — On White House Solar Panels
May 10, 2014: From Wal-Mart To The White House, Obama Talks Up Expansion Of Solar Power
May 9, 2014: Walmart To Double Solar Energy Projects At U.S Stores In 7 Years
Emerging Technologies
May 15, 2014: Delta Thermo Gets Two Permits For Allentown Waste-To-Energy Plant
May 14, 2014: Siemens Adds Further Performance Category To Its Entrained-Flow Gasifier Portfolio
May 13, 2014: SCE&G Sets Super Module At Nuclear Plant
May 12, 2014: Solar Cells From Blackberry Juice
May 9, 2014: Siemens To Deliver The World’s Largest Subsea Pipeline Heating Power System
Outside Texas
May 15, 2014: NRC Schedules Meeting to Discuss Annual Assessment of St. Lucie Nuclear Plant
May 15, 2014: NRC Schedules Open House to Discuss Oconee Nuclear Plant Performance
May 15, 2014: Nuclear Update: US Production Steadies Near 84%
May 14, 2014: Ex Goldman Risk Chief: Stanford Coal Cut A ‘Tipping Point’
May 14, 2014: Boulder Hopes For Cooperative Utility Transition
May 14, 2014: Ga. Utility Closer To US Loans For Nuclear Plant
May 13, 2014: With Energy Efficiency Bill Doomed To Fail, Senate Will Pivot To Tax Cuts
May 13, 2014: Bills Would Beef Up Safety Regs For Spent Nuclear Fuel
May 11, 2014: NRC Orders New Earthquake Risk Analyses at 21 Nuclear Plants
May 13, 2014: Plant Vogtle Makes Nuclear Regulatory Commission List For Earthquake Analysis
May 12, 2014: Even If Coal Has Bottomed, Will It Ever Recover?
May 12, 2014: Energy Savings Bill Fails Amid Election Politics
May 12, 2014: Amid Pipeline and Climate Debate, Energy-Efficiency Bill Is Derailed
May 12, 2014: Is The Senate Doomed To Fail On Energy Policy?
May 9, 2014: Coal Plants Under Fire: U.S. Supreme Courts Rule on Cross State Air Pollution
Other News
May 15, 2014: Consulting Firm Promotes James Harvey to Partner
May 15, 2014: Frontier Utilities Acquires Customers from Texas REP
May 15, 2014: Retail Supplier to Sell Solar Division
May 15, 2014: Just Energy Sees Accelerated Churn from Polar Vortex
May 15, 2014: In Texas, REP Approved, REPs Amend Certificates, REP Relinquishes Certificate
May 15, 2014: Direct Energy Partners with Nest to Bring Energy Savings Offers to Customers in North America
May 15, 2014: Crius Energy Targets New Markets, Including Texas
May 13, 2014: Texas REP Offers Moving Services
May 13, 2014: Energy Market Veteran Forms New Texas Retail Provider
May 13, 2014: Texas Retail REP to Offer Rebates, Offers With Nest Thermostat to ‘Millions’ of Customers
May 13, 2014: NREL Announces Participants in National Executive Education Program
May 13, 2014: North American Power Creates Solar Brand to Offer Solar Financing
May 13, 2014: Liberty Power Signs Agreement with Wholesale Supplier
May 13, 2014: OneRoof Energy, Choose Energy Announce Marketing Alliance
May 12, 2014: Entrust Energy Acquires Reach Energy Customers
May 10, 2014: Jones: Water, Water Everywhere And Not Enough Acre-Feet To Drink
May 11, 2014: Treated Wastewater Getting Second Look As A Valuable Resource
May 10, 2014: Emissions Studies Matter To State, As Long As Data Fits With Policy
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For the Week of 5/2/14 — 5/9/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
May 8, 2014: How is Oncor Protected?
May 8, 2014: What Are the Terms of Oncor’s Ring-Fence?
May 7, 2014: Energy Future Intermediate Holding Company LLC and EFIH Finance Inc. Commence Offer for First Lien Notes Settlement
May 7, 2014: TXU Parent Sees Essentially Flat Residential Churn Through First Quarter of 2014
May 5, 2014: EFH Moves Off Restructuring Watchlist, In Largest Default (But Not Credit Loss) On Record
May 5, 2014; Energy Future Unit Said to Plan $9 Billion Debt Deal
May 5, 2014: Fitch Affirms Oncor’s IDR at ‘BBB’; Outlook Stable
May 5, 2014: Energy Future Parts Crowd to Get Early Bankruptcy Financing
May 5, 2014: Bankrupt Power Company Owns Businesses Worth Billions
May 2, 2014: Energy Future’s Revamp May Put New Oncor Owners Under Microscope
May 2, 2014; Inside The Negotiations Over Energy Future Holdings’ Breakup
May 2, 2014: Why Are Private-Equity Firms Behind Energy Future Deal The Only Ones Coming Out Okay?
May 2, 2014: The Fracking Boom and the Fall of a Texas Utility
May 2, 2014: EFH files Form 10-K with PUCT
Generation Adequacy
May 7, 2014: Texas Power Price Drops as Wind Output Exceeds Expectations
May 7, 2014: Coal Delays Not Likely To Impact ERCOT System: Official
May 7, 2014: Pattern Energy to purchase 179MW of Panhandle 1 wind power project for $125m
May 7, 2014: Opinion: Texas is the American Leader in Energy – So How Can Its Electricity Markets be Such a Mess?
May 6, 2014: PUCT to Revisit Loophole for Small Electric Generators
May 6, 2014: FERC Accepts PJM’s Proposal to Limit Imported Capacity
May 6, 2014: New FERC and EPA Regulations will Impact Cost and Security of Electricity Supply
May 6, 2014: Annual Review Concludes that New England’s Wholesale Power Markets Operated Competitively in 2013
May 2, 2014: Pattern Energy Agrees To Acquire 179 MW Of Wind Power Project In Texas From Pattern Development
May 2, 2014: Mirzatuny: Can Texas Keep the Lights On? Clean Energy Holds the Answer
May 1, 2014: New Plants To Power Up, But Electricity Could Get Tight This Summer
Headlines
May 8, 2014: Mild Winter Brings Smaller Profit For El Paso Electric
May 8, 2014: Fitch: U.S. Utilities Face Modest Exposure to Rising Interest Rates
May 7, 2014: TXU Energy Gives Customers Even More Hours to Use Free Electricity
May 7, 2014: NRG Energy and Unilever Announce Formation of Strategic Partnership on Renewable Energy
May 7, 2014: NRG CEO: Distributed Solar Is A Trillion Dollar Opportunity
May 7, 2014: Centrica’s, Direct Energy Parent Co’s, Interim Management Statement
May 7, 2014: Direct Energy Parent Reports $110 Million Hit from Polar Vortex
May 7, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces First Quarter Financial Results
May 7, 2014: California Now In Running For Tesla Motors’ ‘Gigafactory’
May 7, 2014: Tesla’s First Gigafactory Site Will Break Ground Next Month
May 7, 2014: Tesla Reports Loss on Higher Research Costs
May 6, 2014: Global Solar Equipment Manufacturer Relocates North American Headquarters To San Antonio
May 6, 2014: New Mexico Not A Favorite To Land Tesla Gigafactory
May 6, 2014: Exelon Corporation Declares Dividend
May 6, 2014: NRG Energy Loss Narrows As Revenue Soars
May 5, 2014: Race For Coserv Electric Co-Op Board Turns High-Wattage
May 5, 2014: 6 Things You Don’t Know About Your Electric Bill
May 5, 2014: Entergy Announces Retirement of Chief Integration Office, Joe Domino
May 1, 2014: CenterPoint Officials Weigh Oncor Opportunity
May 1, 2014: CenterPoint Energy Management Discusses Q1 2014 Results
May 2, 2014: Reserve Deputy Accused Of Firing Gun At Centerpoint Energy Workers
May 2, 2014: CEO Says Entergy Will Thrive On Industrial Boom
May 2, 2014: EPA Victory Is Good For Texas Air
Power Grid Security
May 8, 2014: Hearing: Electric Grid Vulnerable to EMP
Renewable Power
May 8, 2014: Bring On The Renewables: Offshore Wind Power Gets A $141 Million Boost
May 7, 2014: Houston 9th In Green Energy Buys
May 7, 2014: Siemens Signs Multiple 10-Year Wind Service Contracts In North America
May 7, 2014: U.S. Adds Up To 141 Million To Support Offshore Wind Power
May 7, 2014: Wind Power Cuts CO2 Emissions On Close To 1:1 Basis
May 7, 2014: Agua Caliente, World’s Largest Photovoltaic Plant, Helps Advance America’s Solar Leadership
May 7, 2014: Biomass Power Association Statement on National Climate Assessment Report
May 7, 2014: Green Power EMC Debuts Pecan Row Landfill Gas Generating Facility
May 6, 2014: Siemens Wins Wind Energy Contracts In North America, Puerto Rico
May 6, 2014: Warren Buffett: I Build Wind Turbines To Lower My Corporate Taxes
May 6, 2014: GE Announces Cumulative 3.9 Gigawatts of US Orders, Expansion of Brilliant Wind Platform
May 6, 2014: Rooftop Solar Equals Personal Power
May 6, 2014: Dow Highlights Concentrated Solar Power Solutions At Menasol 2014
May 5, 2014: Pattern Energy Announces Commencement of Public Offering
May 5, 2014: Big Wind in the Big Oil State
May 5, 2014: First Solar Earnings: Bookings, Longer-Term Profitability In Focus
May 5, 2014: The Latest Wind Energy Information
May 5, 2014: 5 Places You’d Never Expect to Find a Solar Panel
May 5, 2014: Solar Energy’s Quiet Invasion Into Professional Sports
May 2, 2014: S. A. a Leader In Renewable Energy
May 2, 2014: There Is Bright Future For Alternative-Energy Engineers
May 2, 2014: Renewables Get Vote Of Financial Confidence In Nextera Spinoff Plans
May 2, 2014: 11 Take-Aways From AWEA’s Wind Energy Report
Emerging Technologies
May 8, 2014: Smart Grid: Jesse Berst Says Prepare For An Electricity Revolution
May 6, 2014: Northwestern University Makes A Breakthrough In Solar Energy Technology
May 5, 2014: NASA Using High Voltage Transmission Lines In Space Weather Project
May 2, 2014: The Economics Of Using Mesquite For Electricity
May 5, 2014: New Ideas in Lighting Get Closer to Market
May 2, 2014: Energy Commission Will Fund New Hydrogen Fueling Stations In California
May 2, 2014: Chain Reaction: Electric Bicycles Make New Power Commute
Outside Texas
May 7, 2014: NRC Seeks Comment on Supplement to Certification Rule for General Electric-Hitachi New Reactor Design
May 7, 2014: Difficulties Arise In Decommissioning Of San Onofre Nuclear Plant
May 7, 2014: NRC Pushes PG&E To Provide Updates On Seismic Testing At Diablo Canyon Nuke
May 6, 2014: Rockefeller Introduces Bills To Invest In Cleaner Coal
May 6, 2014: White House Sees Climate Change Effects In California, Texas, Florida
May 6, 2014: House Science Chair Lamar Smith Rejects Climate Report From White House
May 6, 2014: CO2 Emissions From Electric Power Sector Vary With Coal & Nuclear Retirements
May 5, 2014: Surry Nuclear Power Plant: A Look Inside
May 5, 2014: At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation
May 5, 2014: Japan to Work With France on Future Fast-Breeder Atomic Reactor
May 5, 2014: Merger Would Make Exelon Biggest U.S. Utility
May 5, 2014: Nuclear Lobbying Campaign Aims To Boost The Industry’s Flagging Business Fortunes
May 2, 2014: DTE Energy Files Application For Fermi 2 License Renewal
May 2, 2014: Graham gets ‘harsh’ with officials over MOX
May 2, 2014: Pilgrim Hit On Safety Record
Other News
May 8, 2014: TCEQ Says River Water Is Safe
May 8, 2014: What’s the Magic Number on Texas’ Water Needs?
May 8, 2014: Wild Turkey Restoration Program Takes Flight on Luminant’s Reclaimed Land
May 7, 2014: State Rep Pushes Desalination Plant Near Victoria
May 6, 2014: Frontier And Crius Energy To Provide Solar Power For California Markets
May 6, 2014: Texas REP Receives License in New State
May 6, 2014: North American Power Names Retail Market Veteran As New CEO
May 5, 2014: NRG and Affiliate REPs Begin Closer Consolidation
May 5, 2014: NRG’s Everything Energy Brand to Replace Energy Plus Brand in Texas
May 5, 2014: New Texas REP Launches Service, Files To Offer Prepaid Plan
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For the Week of 4/25/14 — 5/2/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
May 1, 2014: Texas Localities’ Revenue at Risk After Bankruptcy, Moody’s Says
May 1, 2014: Attorneys Pack Courtroom For First EFH Bankruptcy Hearing
May 1, 2014: EFH Placed Too Many Chips Behind The Wrong Wager
May 1, 2014: How TXU’s ‘Bankrupt’ Owners Could Still Win
May 1, 2014: Millstein’s Abrams Juggles TXU to Puerto Rico as Workouts Scarce
April 30, 2014: Utility’s Bankruptcy Prompts Consumer Worries In Texas
April 30, 2014: Oncor’s Ring Fence Has A $100M Hole, Analyst Says
May 1, 2014: Retail Customer Churn at TXU Parent Steady
April 30, 2014: Utility’s Demise Is a Boon for Blackstone
April 30, 2014: Chapter 11 Surprise — Sometimes Junior Debt Holders Win
April 30, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Lost $2.3 Billion Last Year, But Its CEO Got A Raise
May 1, 2014: Energy Future Holdings CEO Gets $7M While Company Posts Billion-Dollar Losses
April 30, 2014: Luminant Readies New Gas Capacity — In Case Power Prices Justify It
April 30, 2014: One Of The Biggest Bankruptcies In The World Began With 2,400 Breakfast Tacos
April 30, 2014: Energy Future Looks To Tap Nearly $10B
April 30, 2014: Energy Future Junior Creditors Test Bid for Fast Bankruptcy Deal
April 29, 2014: What’s At Stake In The Massive Energy Future Holdings Bankruptcy?
April 29, 2014: Breakup Likely For Energy Future Holdings In Bankruptcy
April 30, 2014: Power Giant’s Bankruptcy Raises Questions Of Coal Plants’ Future
April 29, 2004: Bankruptcy’s Silver Lining For Energy Future’s Coal Power Plants
April 29, 2014: Delaware Messes With Texas, Sparks Fight Over Mega-Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: TXU Energy Pledges Service Won’t Be Hurt By Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: TXU Bankruptcy Potential Has Rivals ‘Licking Their Chops’
April 28, 2014: NRG Energy Seizes The Moment While EFH Is Hamstrung
April 30, 2014: For Those Who Blew TXU Takeover, EFH Chief Has Only Praise
April 29, 2014: Junk-Bond Default Rate Will Double After TXU Bankruptcy Filing – Fitch
April 29, 2014: Ex-CEO Secures Big Payday In Energy Future Holdings Collapse
April 29, 2014: Warren Buffett’s ‘Big Mistake’ Ends Up In Bankruptcy Court
April 29, 2014: How Shale-Gas Boom Led to Demise of Energy Future Holdings
April 29, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Could Find New Life Through Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: Settling the Bets of the Private-Equity Megadeal’s Golden Age
April 29, 2014: PUCT’s Press Release: PUC Moves to Protect EFH Customers during Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: PUCT Addresses Customers’ Concerns Regarding EFH Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: Energy Future Files for Bankruptcy Protection in Delaware
April 29, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
April 29, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: TXU, Oncor Owners File for Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: Big Texas Utility Files for Bankruptcy
April 29, 2014: Texas Power Company Energy Future Files For Bankruptcy
April 28, 2014: EFH Board Votes For Chapter 11
April 28, 2014: Energy Future Close To $9.7B Bankruptcy Financing Commitment From Banks
April 28, 2014: Energy Future Holdings and Creditors Near Deal on Bankruptcy Plan
April 28, 2014: EFH Deal Eminent, Bankruptcy Filing Within 48 Hours
April 28, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Prepares To File For Bankruptcy
April 28, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Set To File For Bankruptcy
April 26, 2014: For EFH, A Colossal Collapse But Limited Pain For Buyout’s Architects
April 25, 2014: Energy Future To File U.S. Bankruptcy As Soon As Monday-Sources
April 25, 2014: Clock Ticking, Bankruptcy Near For Energy Future Holdings
April 25, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Has 2 Options As Bankruptcy Looms
Generation Adequacy
May 1, 2014: Sumitomo Joins Project To Build 200-MW Wind Farm In Texas
May 1, 2014: Western US Power Markets Continue Higher Amid ‘Record Warmth’
May 1, 2014: ERCOT Press Release: Several New Power Plants Expected To Begin Operating By Late Summer
April 30, 2014: Luminant Readies New Gas Capacity — In Case Power Prices Justify It
April 28, 2014: ERCOT Adds 2,827 MW To Generation Request Queue
April 29, 2014: CPS Energy CEO Says Texas Is “OK” For Energy Ahead Of Another Hot Summer
April 29, 2014: ERCOT Files its 2013 Annual Report with PUCT
April 25, 2014: The Price of Electricity In The U.S. Is About to Skyrocket
April 25, 2014: U.S. Electricity Prices May Be Going Up For Good
April 25, 2014: Texas Power Generator Accused Of Electricity Market Manipulation
Headlines
May 1, 2014: Radioactive Waste Opponents Say Tx Lege Should Consider Storage Risks
May 1, 2014: Whole Foods Joins DOE’s Better Building Challenge to Cut Energy Use
May 1, 2014: Fitch Affirms Pedernales Electric Cooperative’s (TX) Mtge Bonds at ‘AA-’; Outlook Stable
May 1, 2014: A Big Week For Energy Company Mergers, Buys, Bankruptcies
May 1, 2014: Supreme Court Upholds EPA Interstate Pollution Rule
May 1, 2014: Xcel Energy First Quarter 2014 Earnings Report
April 30, 2014: Sierra Club Worried About Precedent From Nuclear Waste Site Ruling
April 30, 2014: FPL, Parent Company, NextEra Energy, Report Financial Gains
April 30, 2014: Fitch Places Exelon’s Ratings on Negative Watch Following Acquisition Announcement
April 30, 2014: OSHA Issues Final Rule Revising Standards for Electrical Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
April 29, 2014: Texas Loses Supreme Court Ruling On EPA Pollution Cuts
April 29, 2014: EPA Air Permit Issued to El Paso Electric to Build Montana Power Station Becomes Effective
April 29, 2014: Texas City Tries Out LED Lighting
April 29, 2014: Amarillo Company Wins Environmental Excellence Award
April 28, 2014: Texas Regulator Says No Controversy In Cutting Air Quality Funding
April 28, 2014: Fitch Publishes Recovery Analysis for U.S. Power Companies
April 27, 2014: A Shock To The System: Power Outages in Texas
April 25, 2014: El Paso Electric Company (EE) – Clean Technology – Deals and Alliances Profile
April 25, 2014: AEP Texas On Lookout For Theft
April 25, 2014: AEP Gets Cold Weather Boost In 1st Quarter
April 27, 2014: Mistake Costs Coalition State Pollution Funds
April 25, 2014: Boehner Says Country Can Be Energy Independent In 5 Years
April 25, 2014: Top 10 Reasons Why The Electric Utility Industry is Gearing Up Like Never Before
Power Grid Security
April 28, 2014: DOE Issues Guidance On Electric Grid Cybersecurity
April 25, 2014: Heartbleed Could Hit Energy Grid
Renewable Power
May 1, 2014: Fitch: US Wind Power’s Problem Will Remain Speed and Direction
May 1, 2014: Solar And Wind Power Fee Generates Flap
May 1, 2014: US Wind Power At Last Sees Transformation In Motion
May 1, 2014: With Construction Boom in Full Swing, Wind Energy Heads to WINDPOWER 2014 Conference in Las Vegas
May 1, 2014: Collegiate Wind Competition with Turbines to Go Blade-to-Blade in Wind Tunnel Tests
May 1, 2014: The Time for Wind and Solar Energy Is Now
April 30, 2014: Energy Efficiency Gaining Ground Among Consumers And Energy Professionals
April 30, 2014: NextEra Energy Latest to Form Yieldco for Renewable Power Plants
April 30, 2014: Nextera Energy Announces Confidential Submission Of Draft Registration Statement For Yieldco Vehicle
April 30, 2014: GE Offers $13.5 Billion Enterprise Value to Acquire Alstom Thermal, Renewables, and Grid Businesses
April 30, 2014: Energy Dept. Report Finds Major Potential To Grow Clean, Sustainable U.S. Hydropower
April 30, 2014: Wind Power Is Getting Big
April 30, 2014: Wind Power Equipment Company Delivers Kit To US Firm
April 30, 2014: US Solar Power Installed Costs On Course For 2020 Target
April 29, 2014: How Solar Is Cutting Grid Costs
April 29, 2014: Tucson Electric Power To Develop 18MW Solar Array For The US Army
April 29, 2014: A Snapshot Of The Feeder-By-Feeder Solar Challenge In The US
April 28, 2014: West Texas Wind Sees Its Own Boom
April 28, 2014: SEPA Analysis Shows that 10 Utilities Accounted for 82% of all Integrated Solar Capacity in 2013
April 25, 2014: Is General Electric Making a Bigger Push Into Wind?
April 25, 2014: Will Newer Wind Turbines Mean Fewer Bird Deaths?
Emerging Technologies
May 1, 2014: NREL, Sandia Team to Improve Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure
May 1, 2014: Widespread Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Goal Of New Project
April 30, 2014: Fuelcell Energy To Install Fuel Cell Power Plants For United Illuminating
April 28, 2014: Experimental Efforts To Harvest The Ocean’s Power Face Cost Setbacks
April 28, 2014: Energy Trash Talk! We’re Bigger Than Solar: CEO
April 25, 2014: Active Power from Austin Looks To Turn On The Juice
April 25, 2014: Peak Load Management Alliance Releases Spring Demand Response Market Research Report
April 27, 2014: Upcoming Doe Funding May Heat Geothermal Space
April 27, 2014: Experimental Efforts to Harvest the Ocean’s Power Face Cost Setbacks
Outside Texas
May 1, 2014: NRC: Seismic Activity Exceeds Plant’s Design
May 1, 2014: The Right Lessons From Chernobyl
April 30, 2014: NRC Schedules Open House to Discuss McGuire Nuclear Plant Performance
April 30, 2014: US Power Plant Coal Stockpiles Expected To Rebuild
April 30, 2014: Distributed Energy Threatening Utilities
April 29, 2014: Nuclear Plant Retirements to ‘Slightly Increase’ Carbon
April 29, 2014: U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Tied To Aging Nuclear, Coal Plants
April 29, 2014: Closing US Nuclear Plants Bad For The Environment – Report
April 28, 2014: Nuclear Industry Gains Carbon-Focused Allies In Push To Save Reactors
April 28, 2014: Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Power Helps Meet Our Climate Goals
April 28, 2014: Tesla Finds Friends In The FTC
April 25, 2014: Siemens Delivers CO2 Compressors To Coal Liquefaction Plant In China
April 25, 2014: Catawba Nuclear Station Meets Safety Audit Standards
Other News
May 1, 2014: NRG and Reliant Bring Solar Solutions to North Texas
May 1, 2014: Texas Rep Enters Into Comprehensive Agreement With DTE
May 1, 2014: Texas Rep Launches Program to Provide U.S. Bowling Congress’ Members Preferred Energy Prices
May 1, 2014: Senior Business Development Exec Departs Retail Supplier
May 1, 2014: MP2 Energy Seeks Gas Supplier License
April 29, 2014: LCRA Asks To Reduce Water For Downriver Fish In Time Of Drought
April 30, 2014: New Texas Retail Electric Provider Launches Service
April 30, 2014: Another Texas REP Offering Service in New Sharyland Territory
April 30, 2014: 5 Hires Retail Market Veteran
April 30, 2014: Another Texas REP Also Offering $400 for Enrollments
April 29, 2014: Texas REP Offering $400 for Enrollments
April 29, 2014: Texas REP Launches Mobile App for Residential Customers
April 28: 2014: QSE to Pay $20,000 Under Settlement with Texas Staff
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For the Week of 4/18/14 — 4/25/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
April 24, 2014: Energy Future Board Said to Meet Today on Two Bankruptcy Plans
April 24, 2014: EFH Reportedly Looks At Two Debt Restructuring Offers
April 24, 2014: Bankruptcy Talks Over Energy Future Holdings Hinge On Tax Issues
April 24, 2014: Oncor Schedules First Quarter 2014 Investor Call
Generation Adequacy
April 24, 2014: Lawsuit Accuses Texas Electricity Company Of Market Manipulation
April 23, 2014: Electricity Prices in Texas Fall Amid Below-Forecast Demand
April 23, 2014: US Power Dailies Move Mixed, With Strong Northwest Gains
April 21, 2014: Power Supply Outlook Tight But There’s Nothing To Worry About, Says DOE
April 21, 2014: EPA Proposals Jeopardize Affordable Power Supplies
April 18, 2014: Power Assets Not For Sale, LCRA Executive Says
Headlines
April 24, 2014: San Antonio Agency Decides To Ask For More Money From State For Air Quality Work
April 23, 2014: Retail Energy Companies Rank Highly in Direct Selling Rankings, Revenue Data Reported
April 23, 2014: Texas Yanks Funding From San Antonio Air Quality Program For Releasing Emissions Data
April 22, 2014: LCRA Draws Criticism Over Proposed Rate Increases
April 22, 2014: Texas Greenhouse Gas Regulations Go Into Effect
April 22, 2014: Texas County To Seek Federal Grant To Fund Dam Upgrades
April 22, 2014: American Electric Power Declares Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock
April 22, 2014: AEP Plans Continuing Investments In Transmission
April 21, 2014: Rep. Farenthold Concerned About Nuclear Waste Proposal
April 21, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces New Executives
April 21, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend
April 21, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Announces Closing of Senior Notes
April 21, 2014: Fitch: Calpine’s Ratings Unaffected by the Announced Asset Sale
April 21, 2014: Brewer: Race For Tesla Battery Plant Down To Three States
April 18, 2014: Texas Regulators To Spend Summer Reviewing ERCOT Grid Reliability Standard
April 20, 2014: Interest Builds In West Texas Storage Of High-Level Radioactive Waste
April 18, 2014: Calpine Agrees to Sell Six Southeast Power Plants for $1.57 Billion
April 18, 2014: Wise County Rancher Protests Position Of Oncor Power Line On His Property
April 19, 2014: Is Tesla project a Dream Factory?
April 19, 2014: Texas Must Make Smart Choices To Control Pollution
Power Grid Security
April 23, 2014: America’s Power Grid At The Limit: The Road To Electrical Blackouts
April 22, 2014: Bulletproofing the Grid
April 22, 2014: U.S. Unprepared For The Results Of An Electromagnetic Pulse?
April 22, 2014: Experts: Civilians Not Ready For EMP-Caused Blackout
April 22, 2014: Four Ways The U.S. Military Can Adopt Clean Energy For National Security
April 20, 2014: GOP Demands Answers On Electric Grid Security Leak
April 18, 2014: Pilgrim Nuclear Plant To Stage Attack Drill
Renewable Power
April 24, 2014: New Solar Car Called Phaeton Gives Team Prisum High Hopes
April 24, 2014: Solar Power Grows 400 Percent in Only 4 Years
April 24, 2014: Solar Power ‘Up And Coming,’ EIA Says
April 24, 2014: MIT: Cheaper Batteries for Solar and Wind Power Made Possible by Nanoparticle Networks
April 24, 2014: Top 10 Clean-Powered U.S. Companies
April 24, 2014: Google And Apple Announce New Low Carbon Investments
April 24, 2014: Oregon Tech Runs On Geothermal
April 24, 2014: Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Want US to Drop Solar Trade Case Against India
April 24, 2014: Ex-Im Bank Awards Gamesa “Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year”
April 23, 2014: Freedom Energy Logistics Offering LED Lighting
April 23, 2014: Wind Power: A New Service Industry
April 23, 2014: Smart Wind and Solar Power
April 23, 2014: Google, Sunpower To Finance Residential Solar Power Projects
April 22, 2014: Solar Fuels: A Grand Challenge of 21st Century Chemistry
April 22, 2014: Google Inks Huge Wind Power Deal With Warren Buffett’s Iowa Power Company
April 22, 2014: Wind Power: Changing the Way We Live off the Earth
April 22, 2014: 11 States Produced Twice As Much Power From Nonhydro Renewables Than US Average
April 22, 2014: Sunny Days for Solar Power Stocks
April 22, 2014: As Nuclear Power Dies, Solar Rises
April 22, 2014: The Economic Problem With Solar Power; And The Solution
April 22, 2014: LEGOLAND Florida Becomes First Theme Park in U.S. to Run Completely on Renewable Energy on Earth Day
April 21, 2014: ‘Not In My Back Yard’ Could Cause Catastrophe
April 21, 2014: Western Texas College Joins With Texas Tech University For Wind Energy Degree Programs
April 21, 2014: Where Is The Real Innovation In Wind Energy?
April 21, 2014: News Roundup: PTC Boosts Wind, Utah Grows Its Resources, Texas Goes Big
April 21, 2014: Fuels From Corn Waste Not Better Than Gas
April 21, 2014: Federally Funded Study Says Biofuels Not Better Than Gasoline In Short Run
April 21, 2014: Oklahoma May Charge Customers Who Install Their Own Solar Panels, Wind Turbines
April 21, 2014: U.S Wind Turbine Demand To Rise 55% Annually Through 2018 To $18.9bn
April 21, 2014: How Wind Farm Monitoring Leads To Maximum Output
April 21, 2014: Power Outages, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change: How Smart Energy Choices Will Help Keep the Lights On
April 18, 2014: You’ll Never Guess Which State Has the Most Wind Energy
April 18, 2014: 80% Of US Wind Power In 2013 Generated By 12 States
April 18, 2014: Wind Energy Policy Takes Important Step Forward US Senate
April 18, 2014: Wind Turbine Systems (US Market & Forecast)
April 18, 2014: Ikea Breezes Into US Renewables Market With Wind Farm Purchase
April 18, 2014: Every 4 Minutes, Another American Home Or Business Goes Solar
Emerging Technologies
April 24, 2014: Microgrids: An Electrical Port In A Storm, But Spread Limited By Regulation
April 24, 2014: Geothermal Looks Ahead To US Coal Retirements, Efforts To Value Ancillary Benefits
April 24, 2014: GE Modernizes ComEd’s Electrical Grid, Improves Reliability with Industry’s First UL-Certified Smart Meters
April 24, 2014: From Defense To Offense: EY Report Provides Roadmap To Help Utilities Thrive Amid Rise In Distributed Energy
April 23, 2014: Consultant Foresees ‘Evolution’ With Distributed Generation, Not ‘Revolution’
April 22, 2014: EPRI Reveals Its Worldview on the Integrated Electrical Grid
April 21, 2014: Floating Nuclear Plant Design Unnveiled
April 21, 2014: ANS Congressional Testimony Urges for U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Technology
April 21, 2014: WSU Professor Finds Dry Deserts Absorb Unexpected Carbon Levels
April 21, 2014: Ice or Molten Salt, Not Batteries, to Store Energy
Outside Texas
April 24, 2014: Energy Department Scraps Millions In Fees For Nuclear Loan Guarantee
April 24, 2014: EPA Nears Decision On Coal Ash Regulation
April 24, 2014: Labor Dept. Cuts Levels Of Allowable Coal Dust
April 23, 2014: Exelon Urges Lawmakers to Take Hard Look at Energy Policies to Preserve Benefits of Nation’s Nuclear Plants
April 23, 2014: TMI, Peach Bottom To Take More In-Depth Look At Seismic Risks
April 23, 2014: Exelon Completes Ambitious Goal for Eliminating Carbon Emissions Seven Years Ahead of Schedule
April 23, 2014: EPA Administrator and Apple VP Lisa Jackson discusses the future of energy in the United States
April 23, 2014: Mexico’s Electric Utility Expected to Seek Pipeline Bids
April 23, 2014: Western Regulators Study Performance-Based Alternatives To Cost-Of-Service Rates
April 22, 2014: Nuke Plants Submit Seismic Evaluations To NRC
April 22, 2014: NRC Seeks Comments on Safety and Environmental Regulations Related to Spent Fuel Storage and Disposal
April 22, 2014: Earthquakes Could Affect Beaver Valley Nuke Plant More Than First Thought
April 22, 2014: Some Winners And Losers As Obama’s EPA Preps Carbon Crackdown
April 22, 2014: LS Power To Acquire Calhoun County Power Station From Calpine
April 22, 2014: Tesla Says Panasonic Likely Partner In Battery Plant
April 21, 2014: Federal EPA Again Delays Rule to Reduce Massive Fish Kills at Power Plants
April 21, 2014: Umaine Designated A ‘Green College,’ Despite Aging Infrastructure
April 21, 2014: Daimler/BYD Joint Venture Unveil Plans for All-Electric Car for China
April 18, 2014: The Losing Economics of Investing in Aging Coal Plants: Part 2
April 18, 2014: NRC: Quake Hazards May Imperil Nuke Plants
April 18, 2014: NRC Issues ‘White’ Inspection Finding for Ginna Nuclear Plant; Level of Oversight to be Increased
April 18, 2014: OSHA Revises Rules To Reduce Generation, Transmission Work-Related Deaths, Injuries
April 18, 2014: Is EPA’s MATS Rule Now A Done Deal? In Effect, The Answer Is Yes
Other News
April 24: 2014: TCEQ: Complete Data Needed For Wichita Falls Plan
April 24, 2014: New Texas Retail Provider Offering “Build Your Own Plan”, Offering Nordstrom Gift Card
April 23, 2014: Direct Energy Launches Energy and Protection Plan Bundle in New York
April 24, 2014: Direct Energy Caps Residential Variable Rates in Connecticut
April 24: 2014: Texas REP Offering Free Membership in Bike Sharing Program for Enrollments
April 23, 2014: Direct Energy Now Cross-Selling Home Security Service to Texas Customers
April 23, 2014: Texas REPs Assign POLR Responsibilities to Affiliate
April 21, 2014: AEP Again Honored For Tree Pruning
April 21, 2014: Texas Pollution Worsens as Budget Shrinks for Regulators
April 21, 2014: Wichita Falls Project To Reuse Waste Water Should Proceed Quickly
April 21, 2014: Investigators Crack Down On Environmental Fraud
April 21, 2014: Centrica Using ElectricityChoiceTexas.com As Portal for Its Retail Brands, Beckons Customers to “Compare”
April 21, 2014: Affiliate of Texas REP Receives Licenses in Northeast State
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For the Week of 4/11/14 — 4/18/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
April 16, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Bankruptcy Would Likely Attract Bidders For Oncor
April 15, 2014: EFH Misses SEC Deadline, Is Positioned For Bankruptcy Filing End of this Month
April 15, 2014: Biggest LBO Demise Poised To Put Oncor In Play
April 15, 2014: Noose Tightens On Energy Future Holdings As It Delays 10-K Again
April 15, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Misses Filing Deadline
April 15, 2014: EFH Delays 10-K Again, Negotiations With Creditors Continue
April 14, 2014: EFH Bankruptcy Likely To Result In Cash Bond For Mining Cleanup Costs
April 14, 2014: Texas Railroad Commission will No Longer Accept Empty “Self-Bonding” for Energy Future Holdings’ Mining Operations Upon Its Bankruptcy Filing
April 14, 2014: Life After TXU for Gas Buyouts
April 14, 2014: Drama Continues For EFH; New Anonymous Bonds Buyer In The Mix
Generation Adequacy
April 15, 2014: Power Jumps in Texas as Cool Air Boosts Demand Above Forecasts
April 14, 2014: Conn. Attorney General Alleges Generator “May Have” Exercised Market Power in Capacity Market
April 15, 2014: Texas Might Avoid Blackouts and Brownouts This Summer
April 15, 2014: Power Prices Advance From Indiana to Houston as Demand Rises
April 14, 2014: Power Prices in Texas Fall as Wind Generation Above Forecast
April 10, 2014: Trade Group Leads Effort To Advance Energy Storage In ERCOT Grid
Headlines
April 17, 2014: Senator Fraser Threatens Future Of Downriver LCRA Reservoir
April 17, 2014: In Power Line Dispute, Texas Rancher Questions Wiggle Room
April 17, 2014: Entergy Declares Dividend
April 17, 2014: EDF Helps Standardize Energy Efficiency Projects In Texas
April 17, 2014: PACE Program Seeks Comments From Local Governments, Developers
April 17, 2014: MIT Designs Floating Nuclear Plant That’s Tsunami-Proof
April 16, 2014: Senator Fraser Wants LCRA’s Permit Revoked
April 16, 2014: LCRA Asks State For $250 Million Loan To Build Reservoir
April 16, 2014: Houston Household Electric Bills Up 25% From March 2013
April 16, 2014: Austin-Based Skyonic Pioneers Profitable Carbon-Capture Technologies
April 16, 2014: Nuclear Power Also Needed to Combat Climate Change
April 16, 2014: Is Your Home’s Energy Meter Spying On You?
April 16, 2014: Sharyland Reports Number of Customers To Be Assigned to Default REP at Start of Choice
April 15, 2014: Uranium Energy Corp Reaches Production Permitting Stage for Burke Hollow Project in South Texas
April 15, 2014: Bluebonnet EC Settles Wildfire Lawsuits
April 15, 2014: Dynegy Completes Exchange Offer for $500 Million in Senior Notes
April 15, 2014: EPA Wins In Federal Court, But Texas-Based Challenges To Its Authority Likely To Continue
April 16, 2014: Court Thwarts Sierra Club’s Radioactive Waste Challenge
April 15, 2014: EPA’s Power Plant Rules Top Target If Republicans Take Senate
April 15, 2014: Radioactive Waste Booms With Oil As New Rules Mulled
April 15, 2014: Nuclear Update: 5 Outages Send Total US Output To Near 1-Year Low
April 15, 2014: EPA Power Plant Mercury Rule Upheld by U.S. Appeals Court
April 14, 2014: Priority Power Management Procures Nearly 1 Billion kWh for Clients in Sharyland Utilities Service Territory
April 14, 2014: Consultant Brokers 40% of Non-Residential Usage at Sharyland Utilities
April 14, 2014: US Nuclear Power Plants Posted Strong Performance in 2013
April 14, 2014: Coal’s Best Hope is Costly Power Plant
April 10, 2014: FERC Approves Rockland Power Purchase Of 50% Stake In Texas Cogen
April 14, 2014: Texas Retail Provider Ceases Operations
April 12, 2014: EPA Coal Rules Leaving US Vulnerable To Power Blackouts?
April 13, 2014: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple to Save Climate, UN Says
April 12, 2014: Copelin: When Negotiating With Tesla’s Musk, Trust But Verify, California Official Says
April 11, 2014: Climate Change Doubling Big Power Outages, Group Says
April 12, 2014: NRC Eyes Quake Hazards To Nuke Plants
April 11, 2014: Calpine testified in Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing
Power Grid Security
April 17, 2014: Southern Nuclear’s Plant Farley Site To Conduct Security Exercise
April 16, 2014: Experts Scrutinize US Power Grid’s Vulnerability to Severe Weather
April 15, 2014: Security Holes In Power Grid Have Federal Officials Scrambling
April 15, 2014: Losing 9 Of 55,000 Electrical Stations Would Black Out America For Months
April 16, 2014: Utilities Warned To Prepare For Increasing Cyberattacks
April 10, 2014: DOE Inspector General Says FERC Should Have Classified Now-Leaked Data About Grid Vulnerabilities
Renewable Power
April 17, 2014: Wind Developers Tap Hedging Contracts To Spark Next Texas Boom
April 17, 2014: Green Mountain Energy™ Sun Club™ Brings Solar Power and Energy Education to Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas
April 17, 2014: Xcel Crowned Top U.S. Utility Provider Of Wind Energy For 10th Consecutive Year
April 17, 2014: IKEA Invests In Wind Power At Its U.S. Facilities
April 17, 2014: Has Solar Power’s Day In The Sun Arrived?
April 17, 2014: Xcel Energy Named No. 1 Wind Provider for 10th Consecutive Year
April 17, 2014: Private Sector Driving U.S. Wind Market Forward
April 17, 2014: Wind Farms Are Less of a Threat to Birds than People Think
April 17, 2014: Obama Puts $15M Into Solar Power
April 17, 2014: Harnessing Sun Power Even When It’s Not Shining
April 16, 2014: Corpus Christi Officials Pursuing Annexation Of Land Where Wind Farm Proposed
April 16, 2014: GE To Supply Turbines For Texas Wind Farm
April 16, 2014: New Wind, Solar Power Cheaper Than Nuclear Option, Study Shows
April 16, 2014: 12 U.S. States Account For 80 Percent Of Wind Power
April 16, 2014: Xcel Energy Named No. 1 Wind Provider for 10th Consecutive Year
April 16, 2014: Clean Energy Investment Rises 9%, Led by Solar Power
April 16, 2014: IKEA Wind Farm To Cover 165% Of IKEA’s US Electricity Consumption
April 16, 2014: Photoswitching Material Harnesses Solar Power For Heat Storage
April 16, 2014: Building-Integrated Solar Air Heating Systems Hit Milestone
April 16, 2014: Why Your Neighbors Will Finance Solar Panels for Your Roof
April 15, 2014: Boy Scouts of America’s Capitol Area Council Chooses to Go Solar at North Austin
April 15, 2014: Aggressive Goals By CPS Energy Credited With Making San Antonio 6th In Nation For Solar Power Generation
April 15, 2014: Wind energy policy moves forward in the U.S. Senate
April 15, 2014: Tighter Lightbulb Standards Coming From Energy Dept.
April 15, 2014: BMW Lifts i3 Electric Car Production 43% on Higher Demand
April 14, 2014: Austin Ranks On Nation’s Solar Industry Scene, But Far Behind Leaders
April 14, 2014: Report Supports US Wind Energy Production Tax Credit
April 14, 2014: Global Wind Installations Have Dropped Considerably In 2013
April 14, 2014: The Never Dull Life of a Wind Farm
April 14, 2014: A Molecular Approach To Solar Power
April 14, 2014: MIT, Harvard Scientists Find Way To Produce Solar Power Without Sunshine
April 11, 2014: GDF SUEZ Energy Resources Supports Houston METRO’s Commitment To Environmental Responsibility
April 13, 2014: San Antonio, Austin Among Solar Power Leaders
April 11, 2014: Houston Solar Power Lags Far Behind Other Texas Cities
April 10, 2014: From Panhandle To Gulf Coast, Texas Sees Surge In Wind Energy Projects
April 13, 2014: SAEN: San Antonio Shines As Solar City
April 14, 2014: Putin Natural Gas Embargo Would Help Clean Energy Cause
April 13, 2014: Solar Jobs Join Harry Reid to Chinese Billionaire in Price Drop
April 11, 2014: Report: California Still A Force In Wind Power, But Trails Texas In Key Areas
April 11, 2014: Are We Halfway To Market Dominance For Solar
April 9, 2014: Walmart Commits To Massive LED Lighting Rollout
April 8, 2014: Some Environmentalists Want To Save Utilities From Death Spiral
April 10, 2014: Clean Power Funding Easier as Investors Seek Simplicity
Other News
April 17, 2014: TXU Energy Expands Home Warranty Services, Reminds Texans About Lightning Risks To Appliances, Electronics
April 18, 2014: Direct Energy to Expand Enrollment Through Facebook to More Brands, Adds Account Management
April 17, 2014: Texas REP Offering $50 Enrollment Bonus as Part of Dynamo Promotion
April 17, 2014: New Dry Times Mean Innovative Water Ideas
April 17, 2014: Showtime Brings Realities Of Texas Drought Home To Millions
April 17, 2014: Retail Supplier Launches New Solar Brand
April 16, 2014: Nissan Launches Programs To Make LEAF Charging Free And “EZ”
April 16, 2014: US Energy Security and the Weakening of US-Saudi Ties
April 16, 2014: Electricity Price Surged to All-Time Record for March
April 16, 2014: Nuclear update: Oconee 3 outage tugs US output to 76.3%
April 15, 2014: Direct Energy Restructures Company to Lead in the Next Decade and Beyond
April 16, 2014: Texas REP Offering WeatherBug Home Plans
April 16, 2014: Texas REP Receives Authority To Use Trade Name Epiq Energy
April 16, 2014: Parent of Texas REP Reports Loss for 2013
April 15, 2014: Texas REP to Pay $10,000 for Failure to Timely File Financial Statements, Reports
April 15, 2014: Dynegy Sees “Tremendous Growth” Opportunity for Retail Biz, Touts Cost Advantage from Generation
April 15, 2014: NRC Schedules Meetings to Discuss Vogtle Nuclear Plant Performance and Construction Inspection for New Units
April 15, 2014: Texas REP Launches Direct Sales/Referral Marketing Channel
April 15, 2014: Dynegy Sees “Tremendous Growth” Opportunity for Retail Biz, Touts Cost Advantage from Generation
April 15, 2014: TriEagle Energy Seeks License in New State
April 15, 2014: Direct Energy Expected to Launch Residential Service in New Territory
April 14, 2014: Champion Energy Posts Pricing For Sharyland Territories Newly Opening To Choice
April 13, 2014: A “Most Irreplaceable” Port
April 11, 2014: Post-Fukushima Japan Chooses Coal Over Renewable Energy
April 4, 2014: OSHA Institutes Final Rule On Electrical Utility Safety
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For the Week of 4/4/14 — 4/11/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
April 10, 2014: Anonymous ‘Big Boy’ Bond Buyer Bids Up Energy Future Debt
Generation Adequacy
April 8, 2014: Demand Response Exceeds Expectations in Texas During January Grid Emergency
April 8, 2014: ERCOT Board Approves Houston Import Transmission Project
April 8, 2014: ERCOT News Release: New Transmission Project To Deliver More Power To Houston Area
Headlines
April 10, 2014: Glacial Energy Holdings Declare Bankruptcy
April 10, 2014: Fitch Rates Lubbock Power & Light, TX’s $17.3MM Power System Rev Bonds ‘A+’; Outlook Stable
April 10, 2014: US Power Prices Mixed As Warmer Weather Pushes Eastward
April 10, 2014: In DC, Texas Tech Chancellor Cites Plans For Big Wind Farm Near Campus
April 10, 2014: Does the Smart Grid Create an “Energy Divide?”
April 10, 2014: DOE Marks Major Milestone with Startup of Recovery Act Demonstration Project
April 10, 2014: MISO Limits Flows To South After FERC Orders It To Pay For Transmission Use
April 10, 2014: EPA Consulted With Hundreds of Groups On Carbon Rule for Existing Power Plants
April 9, 2014: Electricity Phone Scam Has Texas Businesses On The Alert
April 9, 2014: Settlement Would Set Smart Meter Opt-Out Fees at Oncor
April 9, 2014: LCRA Chief Phil Wilson Hires Senior Managers Long On Experience And Perry Ties
April 9, 2014: New Transmission Project Expected To Improve Houston Energy Reliability
April 9, 2014: Power Line Plan Sparks Dispute
April 9, 2014: How the U.S. Power Grid Is Like a Big Pile of Sand
April 9, 2014: US Energy Chief: ‘Green’ Includes Nuclear And More
April 9, 2014: NRC Won’t Expand Safety Buffer around Nuke Plants
April 9, 2014: Power Price Recovery May Be Too Late To Aid Its Nuclear Plants: Exelon Exec
April 9, 2014: Vogtle Expansion Could Signal Future Of Nuclear Industry
April 9, 2014: Exelon Calls for Energy Policy and Market Reforms to Ensure Clean, Reliable Energy Supply
April 9, 2014: EIA: Half of 2013 Power Plant Capacity Additions Came from Natural Gas
April 8, 2014: Sen. Troy Fraser: Time For LCRA To Live Up To Customer Obligations
April 8, 2014: Fraser Blasts LCRA
April 8, 2014: Oncor DLR Program Increases Transmission Capacity, Reduces Congestion
April 8, 2014: Bryan Texas Utilities Receives National Recognition for Reliable Electric Operations
April 8, 2014: Thousands Of Homes, Businesses Lose Electricity During Austin-Area Storms, Nobody Hurt
April 9, 2014: For Utilities, It’s a Whole New Game
April 8, 2014: EPA Administrator Gina Mccarthy: ‘EPA Listened’ On Carbon Rules
April 4, 2014: Texas One Step Closer to Obtaining Authority to Issue GHG (Greenhouse Gas) Air Permits
April 7, 2014: US Seismic Reports Come In; Impact Of New Rules Could Be Significant
April 7, 2014: Top 50 US Utilities Leveraging Social Media and Mobile Apps To Improve Smart Grid Benefits
April 4, 2014: Electric Bill in Texas May Come As Jolt
April 4, 2014: Is Rick Perry Cheerleading for a Nuclear Trans-Texas Corridor?
April 4, 2014: AEP: Power Stations Switch to Gas, But Coal Stays on the Menu
April 6, 2014: Will Tesla’s $5 Billion Gigafactory Make a Battery Nobody Else Wants?
April 1, 2014: Power Outages Increase in 2013
April 4, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Prices Senior Notes Offering
Power Grid Security
April 10, 2014: PG&E Offers $250K Reward In California Grid Attack
April 9, 2014: Regulators, Overseers Want More Power To Thwart Attacks — But Congress Needs More Convincing
April 7, 2014: Security Holes In Power Grid Have Federal Officials Scrambling
April 7, 2014: Electric Grid Security Draws Renewed Focus
April 4, 2014: Federal Analysis Says Sabotage of Nine Key Substations Is Sufficient for Broad Outage
Renewable Power
April 10, 2014: When It Comes To Solar, Dallas Is Left In The Dark, New Report Says
April 10, 2014: Economics Of Using Mesquite Biomass For Electricity Generation
April 10, 2014: Solar Installation Industry Grows 45 Percent in 2013
April 10, 2014: Ameresco Biomass Plant Uses Damaged Wood from Ice Storm
April 10, 2014: Wind Energy Delivers Record Construction Numbers; Leading Choice In Many Regions For New Electric Capacity
April 10, 2014: U.S. Wind Industry Slammed By Tax Uncertainty, Fracking
April 10, 2014: Financing Solar Power
April 9, 2014: Offshore Wind Advances In Rhode Island, Texas, Georgia
April 9, 2014: U.S. Learns from UK about Offshore Wind Impact on Fishery
April 9, 2014: Tesla Offers Small, Medium Business Model S Financing
April 9, 2014: Wind Helped the US Cut Carbon Emissions by 96 Million Metric Tons in 2013
April 9, 2014: Concentrated Solar Power Market (CSP) About To Explode, Research Firm Says
April 9, 2014: EIA Report: Solar Accounts For Nearly 25% Of New US Generating Capacity
April 8, 2014: More Wind Energy Generation Records
April 9, 2014: Grandfather Utilities Threatened by Spreading Renewable
April 8, 2014: Clean Energy Victory Bond Push In Congress Would Generate $150 Billion In Financing, 1 Million Jobs
April 8, 2014: Mercom Reports Strong Q1 2014 With USD 7 Billion In Corporate Funding For Solar
April 8, 2014: Why Renewables Are Hot Investments Again
April 8, 2014: Energy-Efficiency Upgrades Get Tax Credits
April 8, 2014: US Wind Energy Output Breaks Records, Thanks to Transmission Upgrades & New Wind Development
April;8, 2014: Why Are So Many Veterans Serving In The Solar Industry?
April 8, 2014: Crowdfunding Seen Topping $5 Billion for Rooftop Solar
April 8, 2014: Concentrating Solar Power Under Fire: Glaring Planning Oversight or Easily Remedied Issue?
April 8, 2014: U.S. Navy’s Ability To Make Fuel From Seawater A ‘Game-Changer’
April 8, 2014: Alternative Energy Companies Poised for More Top Line Growth in 2014
April 7, 2014: Electric Vehicles at Home on the Texas Range
April 7, 2014: Environmental Group’s Report Comes Under Fire After Citing Bucksport Mill As One Of Dozens Of ‘Dirty’ Biomass Plants
April 4, 2014: Capture A Little of the Sun’s Power in Texas
April 4, 2014: Gov. Perry Announces Emerging Technology Fund Award to Texas A&M University Wind Energy Center
April 4, 2014: A&M Gets $2.2 Million For A Wind Energy Project
April 6, 2014: Shale Gas Boom Leaves Wind Companies Seeking More Subsidy
April 7, 2014: US Wind Gets Found In Transmission
April 4, 2014: Wind Power Has Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 4.4 Percent
April 4, 2014: US Senate Committee Votes to Extend Tax Breaks for Wind Farms
April 4, 2014: The Global Market For Solar Irrigation Is Almost Limitless
April 4, 2014: U.S. Solar Market Grows 41%, Has Record Year in 2013
April 4, 2014: LPL Financial Opens San Diego Net-Zero Energy Office Tower
April 4, 2014: The Future Of Solar: Solar Power To Surge in 2014?
April 4, 2014: Energy Breakthrough Uses Sun To Create Solar Energy Materials
April 4, 2014: Geothermal Energy Is a Superior Solution for Today’s Electrical Grids
Other News
April 10, 2014: Direct Energy Launches Energy and Protection Plan Bundle
April 10, 2014: Retail Provider to Pay $164,000 Under Settlement With Texas Staff
April 10, 2014: SaveOnEnergy.com Announces Aggressive Expansion into Northeast
April 10, 2014: LCRA To Live-Stream Meetings Over The Internet
April 10, 2014: NRC: Nukes Operating Safely Despite Issues
April 10, 2014: Nuclear Industry To Hire 130,000 For New Reactors
April 9, 2014: Ambit Launches Service in New Territory
April 9, 2014: Energy-Saving Company Set for Public Offering
April 9, 2014: Siemens Offers New Solution For Utilization Of Waste Heat Using The Organic Rankine Cycle
April 9, 2014: Stream Energy Launches HomeLife Service Offerings (ID Protection, Credit Monitoring, More)
April 8, 2014: TXU Energy Announces ‘Ivy’ IVR Virtual Assistant
April 8, 2014: In Defense of Coal
April 8, 2014: Champion Energy Offering $50 Rebate for Customers Purchasing Smart Thermostat
April 8, 2014: Choose Energy Offering Platform to Referral Channel Partners Under ‘Energy Mayor’ Program
April 7, 2014: The New Oil Is Water
April 4, 2014: Green Mountain Energy Posts Pricing for Sharyland Area Newly Opening to Choice
April 4, 2014: Energy Imports at 26-Year Low
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For the Week of 3/28/14 — 4/4/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
April 2, 2014: When Will The Energy Future Holdings Time Bomb Go Off?
April 1, 2014: Energy Future Holdings’ Restructuring Would Almost Wipe Out Owners
April 2, 2014: EFH Bankruptcy Plan Would Nearly Erase Private Equity Owners’ Stakes
March 31, 2014: Energy Future Holdings’ Downfall A Sign Of Power Industry Struggles
April 1, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Delays SEC Filing, Misses Interest Payment
March 31, 2014: EFH Files For SEC Extension, Delays Interest Payment As Bankruptcy Negotiations Continue
March 31, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Postpones Interest Payment As Talks Continue
March 31, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Seeks More Time for Restructuring Deal
April 1, 2014: TXU Parent Provides Update on “Constructive” Restructuring Discussions with Financial Stakeholders
March 30, 2014: Energy Future Nearing Bankruptcy as Creditors Said to Align
March 30, 2014: Fidelity Reportedly Back On Board With Possible EFH Bankruptcy Plan
March 29, 2014: EFH’s Downfall A Sign Of Power Industry Struggles
March 29, 2014: Greed Doomed The TXU Buyout
March 31, 2014: Luminant Claims Sierra Club Poses ‘Irreparable Harm’
Generation Adequacy
April 2, 2014: U.S. Sen. Schumer Asks FTC to Investigate Polar Vortex Pricing
April 1, 2014: Demand Response Is the Best Cure for Texas’ Ailing Grid
April 1, 2014: Long-Time Capacity-Market Supporter Direct Energy Embraces “Freedom” for Texas Electric Market, Says “Choice” Fundamental
March 31, 2014: PUC Punts Capacity Market Decision To The Texas Legislature In 2015
March 31, 2014: Generators Zero-In on Problem of Polar Vortex — Prices Were Too Low!
March 30, 2014: Rising Utility Costs Lingering After Winter’s Chill Fades
Headlines
April 3, 2014: High Power Bills Weigh On North Texans After Unusually Cold Winter
April 3, 2014: Westinghouse, Ukraine Near Deal on Nuclear Fuel for Reactors
April 3, 2014: EPA Falls Far Short of Its Promised ‘Common Sense’ Regulatory Approach
April 3, 2014: EPA Sends Proposed Emissions Rule For Existing Power Plants To White House
April 3, 2014: EPA Seeking Comments On Futuregen Carbon-Capture Plan
April 3, 2014: OSHA Releases Final Rule Covering Electrical Safety for Power Plant, Power Line Workers
April 2, 2014: Duncanville Police Warning About Scam Involving Oncor
April 2, 2014: Settlement Would Set Smart Meter Opt-Out Rates at CenterPoint TDU
April 2, 2014: Direct Energy CFO Andrew Sunderman on M&A, Consolidation
April 2, 2014: Perry Backs Storage Site For Texas Nuclear Waste
April 2, 2014: Tesla Keeps Suitors Guessing About Battery Factory Site
April 2, 2014: Texas Auto Dealers Say No Special Treatment For Tesla
April 2, 2014: EPA Requests Delay In Decision About Texas Aquifer Exemption
April 2, 2014: Companies Transforming the US Power Sector
April 1, 2014: NRG Energy Closes Multiple Strategic Acquisitions
April 1, 2014: NRG Announces Purchase Price for Dominion Retail Electric Book in Announcing Closing
April 1, 2014: American Electric Power with Partners Get PUCT Nod
April 1, 2014: Nuclear Waste Move Not Ideal But Necessary
April 1, 2014: Fitch Rates Duke Energy’s Senior Notes ‘BBB+’
April 1, 2014: 3D Visualization Could Benefit Plant Inspection Programs
April 1, 2014: EEI Report: Investment in Transmission Infrastructure Set to Soar
March 31, 2014: PUCT approves ETT and Sharyland application for Cross Valley 345-kV transmission line from North Edinburg to Loma Alta
March 31, 2014: Gov. Rick Perry Encourages Support Of High-Level Radioactive Waste Storage In Texas
March 29, 2014: Honeywell, CPS Extends Partnership To Improve Texas Electric Grid Stability
March 29, 2014: SCAM ALERT: Gladewater PD Warns Of Electric Company Con
March 31, 2014: El Paso-Las Cruces Borderplex Not On Tesla Motor’s List For $5 Billion Factory
March 31, 2014: Bluebonnet Electric Settles Dozens Of Bastrop Wildfire Lawsuits
March 31, 2014: Embattled Utilities Face ‘Talent Storm’
March 29, 2014: Watchdog: With Electric Companies, Level Of Trust Is Low in Texas
March 29, 2014: El Paso Electric Edges Closer To Opening East Side Plant
March 29, 2014: Future Of Electricity No Longer An Afterthought
March 30, 2014: Tesla’s $5B Giga Battery Factory and Deep Politics in AZ, TX, NV and NM
March 29, 2014: Coal-Fired Power Plant Operators Consider Emissions Compliance Strategies
Power Grid Security
April 1, 2014: Chilling: Why An Underreported, ‘Significant Incident of Domestic Terrorism’ Might Not Be a Failed Attack at All
April 1, 2014: Will The Feds Take Over Grid Security?
March 31, 2014: Senate Leaders Call for Investigation into FERC Leaks Regarding Grid Security
March 31, 2014: Risky Business: Protecting US Energy Supplies
March 29, 2014: Energy Industry, Agency Officials Brief House Members On Physical Grid Security
Renewable Power
April 3, 2014: Wind Generation Sets Records In Regional Grids For Oklahoma, Texas
April 3, 2014: Grid Upgrade Spurs Wind Records
April 3, 2014: U.S. Wind Energy Output Breaks Records, Thanks To Transmission Upgrades And New Wind Development
April 3, 2014: Investors Warm to Green Bonds
April 3, 2014: Clean Energy Investments Drop Globally
April 3, 2014: Grassley Goes To Bat For Wind Energy Tax Credit
April 3, 2014: SD Senators Confident In Extension Of Wind Energy Tax Credit
April 3, 2014: Solar Power Cheaper Than Natural Gas, Coal, And Nuclear Power In Texas!
April 3, 2014: Robots Find A Job In The Emerging World Of Solar Energy
April 3, 2014: Fuel Cells Power Up: Three Surprising Places Where Hydrogen Energy Is Working
April 2, 2014: American Wind Power Reaches Major Power Generation Milestones In 2013
April 2, 2014: Biomass Plants Take Hit For Pollution
April 2, 2014: US Wind Turbine Systems Market
April 2, 2014: Advancements in Wind Turbine Technology: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Cost
April 2, 2014: Google, Facebook And Apple Lead On Green Data Centers
April 1, 2014: Solar Company Moving North American Headquarters To San Antonio
April 1, 2014: Algonquin Closes 400 MW Wind Portfolio Acquisition including Texas In The U.S
April 1, 2014: EDF Renewable Energy Confirms Turbine Order with Vestas for 194 Megawatts for Texas Projects
April 1, 2014: As Solar Power Gets Cheaper, Austin Energy Gains The OK To Buy $525M More of It
April 1, 2014: GigaFactory Proves that Tesla is Ahead of the Clean Energy Curve, But Does Texas Stand to Benefit?
April 1, 2014: Wind Power Hits Record Output in Texas, US
April 1, 2014: Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable, New Analysis Reveals
April 1, 2014: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Wind Power
April 1, 2014: Wind Energy: On the grid, Off the Checkerboard
April 1, 2014: A New Way To Visualize The Wind Energy Tax Credit
March 31, 2014: Why Oil State Texas Turns Out To Be Friendly To Electric Cars
March 31, 2014: Tesla to Use North American Material Amid Pollution Worry
March 31, 2014: Wind Power Costs Almost Equal To Natural Gas
March 31, 2014: Almost 80% Of American Consumers View Solar Favourably
March 31, 2014: DOE Map Helps Tell The Story Of US Wind Development
March 30, 2014: Minnesota Utilities Commission Upholds Landmark Solar Versus Gas Ruling
March 28, 2014: Wind Generated Record Amount Of Power In Texas Wednesday -ERCOT
March 29, 2014: Wind ‘Competitive With Gas’ In US
Other News
April 4, 2014: GCPA Board Member John Moore Passes Away
April 4, 2014: Wholesale Market Inefficiencies To Be Focus of National Energy Marketers Association Restructuring Conference
April 2, 2014: Structure Appoints Mark Davis to Lead Growth of Services in Midstream Sector
April 2, 2014: State To Study Desalination Of Gulf Water As Viable Option In Face Of Drought
April 1, 2014: ERA Environmental Announces Direct Upload to TCEQ STEERS
April 1, 2014: Texas Hoping for Edge Over New Mexico in Water Battle
March 31, 2014: Gexa Branding Product as “Every Day, Every Night” Plan
March 31, 2014: Texas Broker Expanding Nationally
March 31, 2014: Beyond Power Offering Service in New Texas Territory
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For the Week of 3/21/14 — 3/28/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
March 27, 2014: Energy Future Stakeholders Nearing Chapter 11 Deal
March 26, 2014: Energy Future Holdings, Key Creditors Move Closer To Talks As Bankruptcy Looms
March 26, 2014: Energy Future Negotiations Coming Down To The Wire
March 27, 2014: RLPC-Energy Future Holdings Lining Up $9 Bln Bankruptcy Financing
March 26, 2014: Energy Future Trying To Reach Debt-Restructuring Deal
March 26, 2014: Texas Utility Preparing to File for Bankruptcy Protection as Soon as April 1
March 24, 2014: Oncor: The Shining Light During Dark Times At EFH
March 21, 2014: Size Matters: EFH Shakeup Will Ripple
Generation Adequacy
March 28, 2014: News Release: Wind Generation Output In ERCOT Tops 10,000 MW, Breaks Record
March 27, 2014: Wind Power Sets New Daily Records In Texas
March 28, 2014: ERCOT Proposes Reduction in Cure Period
March 27, 2014: GHG Permit Issued For El Paso’s Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant
March 26, 2014: NRG CEO Crane’s Vision for Energy Industry Again Inconsistent With Push for Capacity Market
March 24, 2014: New PJM Bal Day Application Manages Trader Price Risks in Extremely Volatile Energy Market
March 24, 2014: Demand Response: The Power Of Aggregation
Headlines
March 27, 2014: Xcel Energy Completes 115-Kv Power Line In Texas
March 27, 2014: Allow Tesla To Sell Cars Directly
March 26, 2014: Texas Regulators Taking Over Greenhouse Gas Permits From EPA
March 26, 2014: Honeywell And CPS Energy Expand Efforts To Help Make The Electrical Grid Smarter, More Reliable
March 26, 2014: Tesla Execs Secretly Visit S.A.
March 26, 2014: Tesla Execs Hold Secret Meeting in San Antonio
March 26, 2014: Tesla Strikes Deal With Ohio Auto Dealers
March 26, 2014: Tesla Thaw? Suddenly States Are Moving On Laws Favoring The Company’s Stores
March 26, 2014: EPA Air Permit Issued to Build Montana Power Station in Far East El Paso
March 26, 2014: Entergy Texas Seeks Increased Energy Assistance For Needy Customers
March 26, 2014: Obama Administration Proposal for 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, BIO Says
March 25, 2014: FERC Orders Gas And Power Suppliers To Work Together
March 25, 2014: Sen Rubio: Allow Tesla To Sell Direct To Consumers
March 25, 2014: N.J. Bill Would Let Tesla Sell Cars Directly, Reversing Ban
March 25, 2014: As Texas Woos Tesla, Perry Has No Plans For Special Session For Carmaker
March 25, 2014: Perry Says Dealership Laws Should Be Changed For Tesla
March 25, 2014: First Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit Upheld By EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) Environmental Appeals Board
March 24, 2014: Gov. Rick Perry: It’s Time For State To Revisit ‘Antiquated’ Rules That Prohibit Tesla Sales In Texas
March 21, 2014: Texas Commissioner Anderson Seeks Further Revisions to Definition of REP Principal
March 21, 2014: PUCT Commissioner Proposes More Revisions to REP Certification Rule
March 21, 2014: Austin Energy App Tracks Your Electric Bill Daily
March 21, 2014: Texas’ Political Winds Blowing Against Tesla’s Business Model
March 21, 2014: Sierra Club Loses Appeal To Reconsider BACT Decisions Under Texas La Paloma Plant Permit
March 21, 2014: NRG Energy, Waste Management, Others Forms Joint Venture for Gas-to-Liquids Opportunities
Power Grid Security
March 26, 2014: FERC BES Revisions Could Boost Reliability
March 26, 2014: Protecting The Power Grid: A Bigger Role For Government?
March 24, 2014: Power Companies Struggle to Maintain Defenses Against Cyber-Attacks
March 24, 2014: How Do We Really Protect the Grid from the Bad Guys?
March 24, 2014: Aging Power Grid Presents Security Gap
March 21, 2014: FERC Refines Bulk Electric System Definition to Bolster Reliability
March 21, 2014: Will ‘Guns, Guards and Gates’ Really Terror-Proof the Grid?
Renewable Power
March 27, 2014: Texas Solar Power May Have its Day in the Sun
March 27, 2014: CPS To Add Commercial Users To Energy-Saving Program
March 27, 2014: As Austin Approves Massive Solar Power Deal, Could It Do More?
March 27, 2014: US Wind Projects Fall 93 Percent
March 27, 2014: First Solar and GE Shape Next-Generation PV Power Plant
March 26, 2014: Corpus Christi Council Votes On Resolution Opposing Wind Turbines
March 26, 2014: New US Wind Power Installations Plummet
March 26, 2014: Solar Power Eclipsed Wind In 2013 And Is Set To Keep Rising
March 26, 2014: US Utility Solar Market Grappling With Impact Of Federal Tax Credit Expiration
March 20, 2014: Efficiency, Not Just the Recession, Drove US Energy Savings Since 2007
March 25, 2014: United States Solar – The Shift from Utility Scale to Distributed Generation
March 25, 2014: Goldman Sachs – The US’s Solar Future
March 24, 2014: Austin Blows $558M To Castro County
March 24, 2014: At Austin Event, Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Warns That Clean Energy Has ‘Dirty’ Costs
March 24, 2014: NREL Driving Research on Hydrogen Fuel Cells
March 24, 2014: Navy Research Laboratory Unveils Ambitious Solar Energy Project
March 24, 2014: Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete On Price
March 24, 2014: Biofuels Do More Harm Than Good, UN Warns
March 21, 2014: Texas-Based Electric Drive Firm, KDL Energy Technology, To Display With BMW, Tesla at Austin Energy Thought Summit
March 21, 2014: Congressional Champions Of The PTC And ITC Warn Colleagues They Must Act Now To Keep The U.S. Wind Industry Robust
March 21, 2014: Wind More Favorable Than Solar For Grid-Scale Storage, Study Finds
Other News
March 28, 2014: Direct Energy Announces Leadership Changes
March 27, 2014: NRG Energy Acquires Another Retail Book in Texas
March 27, 2014: NRG Acquires Roof Diagnostics Solar (RDS)
March 27, 2014: Tara Energy Introduces Mobile App
March 26, 2014: Texas QSE to Pay $27,000 to Settle Audit of Operator Training
March 26, 2014: Arlington, Texas Announces Marketing Alliance With Retail Provider
March 26, 2014: Texas REP Provides Entry Date For Northeast State, Seeks License in Another
March 25, 2014: Exxon Mobil: Ship Channel Shutdown Hitting Refinery Output
March 25, 2014: Reliant Launches ‘Primetime’ Time of Use Product for Businesses
March 25, 2014: Reliant Bundling EnTouch Controls Management Solutions in Texas Commercial Offer
March 25, 2014: Texas REP Seeks to Use Trade Name Epiq Energy
March 25, 2014: National Retail Provider to Launch Green-Focused Multi-Level Marketing Channel
March 23, 2014: Dike, Ports Closed After Barge Collides With Ship in Houston
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For the Week of 3/14/14 — 3/21/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
March 20, 2014: Luminant Wins Top National and State Awards for Mine Reclamation Program
March 19, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Announces Two North Texas Leaders Join Sustainable Energy Advisory Board
March 12, 2014: Bankruptcy risk rises for Energy Future Holdings
March 13, 2014: Energy Future Said to Arrange Bankruptcy Loans
Generation Adequacy
March 20, 2014: Power Prices In Texas Rise As Wind Generation Below Forecast
March 19, 2014: FERC Conference on Winter’s Extreme Wholesale Pricing Doesn’t Include Any Retail-Only Suppliers
March 17, 2014: PJM ‘Statement’ on Winter 2014 Cold Weather Events
March 17, 2014: Merchant Generators Don’t Care If Retail Choice Dies
Headlines
March 20, 2014: Start-up Volterra Energy Acquires Texas Retail Electric Provider
March 20, 2014: La Paloma Energy Center Scores Legal Victory For Its Texas Power Project
March 20, 2014: Pa. House Chair: ‘We’re Going to Have to’ Cap Variable Rates; Free Market for Electricity ‘Hasn’t Worked’
March 19, 2014: Texas Coal Plants Burned 23m Tons In 3 Months To Lead Nation
March 19, 2014: Age Of Coal Fleet May Limit Impact Of EPA Climate Rule, Industry Says
March 18, 2014: Lite-Up Texas Plan Helps Qualified Low-Income Families With Electric Bills
March 17, 2014: ‘Dynamic’ Year Ahead For Texas Power Retailers, Big And Small
March 17, 2014: Reliant, Andeler Release Pricing for Sharyland Areas Moving to Choice
March 14, 2014: Sharyland Customers Face A Choice
March 14, 2014: Dynegy Launches Exchange Offer for $500 Million in Senior Notes
March 17, 2014: Loving County Wants To Store Spent Nuclear Fuel
March 15, 2014: 3 Charged In Texas Co-Op Credit Card Abuse
March 14, 2014: House GOP Launches Probe Into EPA Rule
Power Grid Security
March 20, 2014: No Consensus Yet on How to Safeguard America’s Power Grid
March 18, 2014: FERC And EEI Criticism Of WSJ For Recent Article On Terrorism And Power Grid Misses The Point
March 18, 2014: FERC Directs Standards Requiring Utility Hardening Against Physical Threat
March 18, 2014: Cyberattack ‘Could Cause Blackouts’
March 18, 2014: Shielding The Transmission Grid Means Protecting The Economy
March 17, 2014: NERC Drill Finds U.S. Grid Preparedness Insufficient
March 14, 2014: WSJ Article On Power Grid Vulnerability Outrages Federal Regulator, Lawmaker
March 14, 2014: NERC CEO Outlines Implementation Ideas For FERC-Mandated Physical Security Standards
March 14, 2014: Grid Security Is Top Priority For The Electric Industry
March 14, 2014: Culture Of Safety Can Make Or Break Nuclear Power Plants
Renewable Power
March 20, 2014: On-Site Solar Power Could Hasten Us Utility ‘Death Spiral’, Report Finds
March 20, 2014: Electric Cars Can Go Only Half As Far In Freezing Weather, AAA Finds
March 20, 2014: NRG Energy : World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Is Forcing Pilots To Fly Blind
March 19, 2014: S.A. Ranks Among Top 10 Cities For Solar Power
March 19, 2014: Veterans Affairs Wind Turbine, Built For $2.3 Million, Stands Dormant
March 19, 2014: Solar Power More Economical Than Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear In Texas
March 19, 2014: Which State Is Winning The Gigafactory Race?
March 19, 2014: LM Wind Power To Develop Innovative Turbine Blade
March 19, 2014: Energy Storage Offers Tailored Grid Solutions, But at What Cost?
March 18, 2014: Texas Utility Secures Rock-Bottom Price For Solar
March 18, 2014: Sun Powered: Solar Racing Team Tests Boat In East Texas Waters
March 18, 2014: Solarcity Freezes Energy-Storage Program As Grid Connections Lag
March 18, 2014: Wind Turbine Utilizes Industrial Internet For Optimal Efficiency
March 18, 2014: The United States Of Solar: The Top 5 In Solar Power
March 18, 2014: Solar Makers Shift To Profit As Demand Eases Oversupply
March 18, 2014: Kior Falls After Biofuel Maker Warns Of Possible Default
March 18, 2014: Pilots Complain That Glare From the World’s Biggest Solar Power Plant Is Blinding Them
March 18, 2014: Solar Forecasting: Bringing Certainty To Power Generation
March 18, 2014: Hybrid Concentrated Solar System Blossoming
March 18, 2014: Here’s What’s Behind the Fuel Cell Mania
March 17, 2014: Austin Energy Announces 150 MW Utility-Scale Solar
March 17, 2014: Texas Is Perfect For Tesla Motors
March 17, 2014: Regulations Could Harm Texas’ Bid For Tesla Plant
March 17, 2014: States Move To Stop Tesla’s Direct Sales, As Musk Suggests Company Victim Of ‘Mafia’ Tactics
March 17, 2014: Solar Power Threatening Future for U.S. Electric Utilities
March 17, 2014: The Navy’s Plan to Beam Down Energy From Orbiting Solar Panels
March 17, 2014: Best Buy, Solarcity To Offer Solar Panel Home Upgrades
March 17, 2014: America’s Largest Grid Operator: Massive Renewables Push Won’t Be a Problem
March 17, 2014: Solar and Wind Will Have Little Effect on Electric Grid’s Reliability, Report Says
March 14, 2014: Solar Less Than 5¢/Kwh In Austin, Texas! (Cheaper Than Natural Gas, Coal, & Nuclear)
March 15, 2014: Austin’s Appetite Growing For Plug-In Cars
March 14, 2014: OCI Solar Power Completes Phase 2 of 400-MW Texas Solar Project
March 14, 2014: Turbine Tech Advances Played Key Role In U.S. Wind Power Growth, Cost Decline
Other News
March 20, 2014: Direct Energy to Launch DirectTV Bundle
March 20, 2014: FERC Revises The EQR Data Dictionary And Announces A Technical Conference
March 19, 2014: Texas REP Looking To Redeploy Prepaid Brand In Late Spring/Early Summer
March 19, 2014: Texas REP Source Power & Gas Launches Service In Two Northeast States
March 18, 2014: Texas REP Seeks to Use Trade Name Shyne Energy
March 17, 2014: Founder, Principal of Broker Joins Board of Texas REP
March 17, 2014: ERCOT Retail Market Veteran Joins Tradition Energy
March 17, 2014: Portable Cell Chargers at Houston Rodeo Show a Potentially Big Marketing Opportunity for NRG, If Nothing Else
March 17, 2014: Affiliate of Texas REP Seeks Licenses in Northeast State
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For the Week of 3/7/14 — 3/14/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
March 13, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Lining Up Loans For Bankruptcy Filing
March 14, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Reportedly Close To Getting Bankruptcy Loans
March 11, 2014: Tax Fight Looms Large In Energy Future Restructuring
March 10, 2014: Energy Future Said to Hold Last-Minute Talks to Ease Bankruptcy
Generation Adequacy
March 11, 2014: Cold Snap Knocks Texas Electric Generators Offline
March 11, 2014: ERCOT Details Outages During Jan. 6 Cold Snap
March 11, 2014: Electricity Prices Fall From Texas To Boston As Demand Drops
March 12, 2014: State Regulators Say PJM Generators Seeking To Recover Inflated Costs Not Actually Experienced Under FERC Waiver Make-Whole Payments
March 10, 2014: Coal’s Share Of ERCOT’s Market Grows Stronger, Gas’ Share Continues To Fall
March 10, 2014: Polar Vortex Emboldens Industry To Push Old Coal Plants
March 10, 2014: Texas Electricity Prices Rise As Power Demand Exceeds Forecast
March 8, 2014: Too Much Panic In Texas Power Market
March 8, 2014: Drought Hastens End Of LCRA’s Hydropower Era
March 3, 2014: Why Texans Are Using Less Energy Than Predicted
Headlines
March 13, 2014: Texas Still Biggest CO2 Emitter But Getting Better, Environmentalists Say
March 13, 2014: Texas Wind Power Cutting Emissions, Environmental Group Says
March 13, 2014: Small-Scale Power Grid Attack Could Cause Nationwide Blackout
March 13, 2014: U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack
March 13, 2014: U.S. Commission Warns Of Weakness In Power Grid: Report
March 12, 2014: Fitch Affirms CenterPoint Energy and Subsidiaries; Outlook Stable
March 12, 2014: Fitch’s ‘Negative’ Outlook Persists For Brownsville Public Utility
March 12, 2014: U.S. Electric Grid ‘Inherently Vulnerable’ To Sabotage
March 12, 2014: Electric Grid Hardened, Still Vulnerable After Attack
March 11, 2014: Appeals Court Denies Texas’s Challenges On New EPA Rules
March 11, 2014: NRG Agrees To Acquire Dominion’s Retail Electric Business
March 11, 2014: NRG Goes On A Buying Spree To Expand U.S. Presence
March 11, 2014: Most US Power Dailies Open Week Lower; West Coast Markets Advance
March 11, 2014: FERC Orders NERC To Develop Physical Grid Security Standards
March 10, 2014: Palo Verde Unit 2 Ranked as Top U.S. Generator for 2013
March 10, 2014: Entergy Texas, Inc. : Utility, Vegetation Crews Brought In To Entergy Texas’ Westernmost Areas
March 10, 2014: Fitch Rates NextEra Energy Capital Holdings’ Debentures ‘A-‘
March 10, 2014: Snipers Won’t Blackout US Power Grid, But Sun May
March 10, 2014: Renovating Aging Electric Utility Grid Infrastructure With New Technology
March 10, 2014: Nuclear, Coal-Fired Plants Continue To Produce Most Energy
March 10, 2014: FERC Orders Power Authority To Craft Grid Security Rules
March 7, 2014: Congress Should Clarify US Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Rules: Utility Execs
March 7, 2014: EPA Chief: Power Plant Rules Won’t ‘Put The Brakes On Business’
March 7, 2014: Nuclear Plant Safety Improves Despite Lapses, Watchdog Group Says
March 7, 2014: Changing Times for Electric Utilities
March 7, 2014: Severe U.S. Winter Leaves Questions For Gas, Power Markets
Renewable Power
March 13, 2014: Wind Energy Is Clean, Efficient
March 13, 2014: Tesla Giga Plant, Knight Grant To OHSU Demonstrate Power Of Ambition
March 12, 2014: OCI Solar Texas Second PV In Service
March 12, 2014: The Top 10 Cities For Solar Power including San Antonio
March 12, 2014: Texas Among Top States For “Clean Energy” Jobs Last Year
March 12, 2014: 78,600 Clean Energy, Transportation Jobs Announced In 2013
March 12, 2014: Poll: 75% of US Homeowners Say Utilities Shouldn’t Block Solar
March 11, 2014: San Antonio A Great Match For Tesla Plant
March 11, 2014: Chinese Wind Power Developer Explores US Market With Software Deal
March 11, 2014: Wind Power Tax Credit ‘Dead’ In Congress This Year
March 10, 2014: Austin Energy Close To Signing ‘Cheapest’ Solar Power Deal Experts Have Seen
March 10, 2014: North American Wind Farm Operators Talk Business
March 10, 2014: Discovery Makes Solar Power Less Expensive, More Efficient
March 10, 2014: Fuelcell Energy Obtains $2.8m From US DOE To Demonstrate Direct Fuelcell Power Plant
March 7, 2014: West Texas Wind Farm Could Be Largest Taxpayer
March 7, 2014: Photos: Is GE’s Space Frame Tower the Future of Wind Power?
March 7, 2014: 2013 Is Milestone Year For Wind
March 7, 2014: More US Solar Installed In 18 Months Than Past 30 Years
Other News
March 13, 2014: Texas REP Launches New Affinity Program With Nancy Lieberman Foundation
March 13. 2014: Electricity Girl Seeks Texas Aggregator License
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For the Week of 2/28/14 — 3/7/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
March 4, 2014: Largest LBO Puts Energy Future-Backed Bonds At Risk: Muni Credit
March 3, 2014: Could EFH Bankruptcy Lead To A Sale Of Oncor?
March 3, 2014: For Oncor, The Suitors Are Plentiful
March 3, 2014: Luminant Beats $470m Pollution Suit Over Texas Coal Plant
March 3, 2014: Buffett: Without Gas Price Spike, End Is Nigh For Luminant Parent
March 1, 2014: Buffett Lost Nearly $900 Million Exiting Biggest Buyout Ever
March 1, 2014: Buffett Says Energy Future Will Probably Seek Bankruptcy
Generation Adequacy
March 6, 2014: Texas Think Tank: Facts Speak For Themselves on Capacity Markets
March 6, 2014: Four New Texas Power Plants To Go Online Before Worst Summer Heat Should Hit
March 6, 2014: A Decade Of Leadership — Texas Electric Power Deregulation
March 6, 2014: Power Grid Takes On The West Texas Drilling Boom
March 5, 2014: Grid Operator Says Four New Plants Will Ease Electricity Demands In Texas
March 5, 2014: ERCOT Anticipates Sufficient Generation for Summer
March 5, 2014: ERCOT Sees Slim Power Reserve Going Into Summer
March 5, 2014: Spot Power Falls From New England To Texas As Cold Blast Eases
March 5, 2014: Nolan County Power Plant Tagged As ‘A Project Of Economic Significance’
March 4, 2014: Energy Demand Breaks 12-Year-Old March Record
March 4, 2014: Texas Mulls Capacity Market
March 4, 2014: Texas Grid Extends Power Conservation Call As Cold Boosts Usage, Prices
March 3, 2014: Latest Arctic Blast Sends Texas Power Usage, Prices Soaring
March 3, 2014: Texas Power Market Monitor Resigns Amid Unresolved Reform Debate
March 3, 2014: ERCOT Report Empowers Fans Of Texas’ Current Electricity Market
March 4, 2014: Energy Conservation Urged Through Tuesday Morning
March 4, 2014: Proposed ERCOT Resource Adequacy Task Force Matrix
Feb 28, 2014: Texas Sees Higher Summer Power Supply Amid Slower Demand Growth
Feb 28, 2014: ERCOT Report Should Slow Down Energy Industry’s Push To Dip Into Ratepayer’s Pockets
Feb 28, 2014: Capacity Market Foes Seize On Brighter Electric Forecast
Feb 28, 2014: ERCOT: Growth in Texas Energy Demand Slows
Feb 28, 2014: Calpine Buys San Antonio-Area Power Plant For $625 Million
Feb 27, 2014: Lesson From Europe: Renewable Energy = Need For Capacity Payments?
Headlines
March 6, 2014: Little Texas Electric Company Fine Upped To $2.8 Million
March 6, 2014: Frigid US Weather Means Highest Power Prices Since 2008
March 6, 2014: Harsh Winter Reveals Necessity Of Coal
March 6, 2014: Distributed Generation an Opportunity, Not a Threat to Utilities
March 6, 2014: CIA, NSA And Others Tell Utilities How To Up Their Cybersecurity
March 6, 2014: President Requests $711.0 Million for Fossil Energy Programs
March 5, 2014: U.S. Appeals Court to Hear Appeal of Ruling Which Had Granted Class Action Status to Retail Energy Lawsuit
March 5, 2014: ERCOT Notifies PUCT Of Inadvertent Transmission Of Data Which Could Have Revealed Number Of Competitor’s ESI IDs
March 5, 2014: BPC Issues Cyberattack Protection Recommendations
March 5, 2014: NRG Retail Provider Acquires Customers of Texas REP
March 5, 2014: Texas PUC Posts List of Cities Requiring Copy of REP Disconnect Notice Sent to Certain Multi-Family Dwellings
March 5, 2014: Texas Staff Propose Lower Upfront, Ongoing Smart Meter Opt-Out Charge at TNMP
March 4, 2014: Small Trading Operation In FERC’s Enforcement Crosshairs Takes Pre-Emptive Defensive Action
March 4, 2014: Transformers: A Weak Link On The Power Grid
March 4, 2014: Experts Call For A New Organization To Oversee Grid’s Cybersecurity
March 4, 2014: Important Steps Are Needed Now To Guard Against Cyber Threats To Key U.S. Sectors.
March 3, 2014: ERCOT Proposes NPRR to Reflect Incremental Load Exposure to POLRs from Mass Transition
Feb 27, 2014: Texas Electricity Bills Soar In Abnormally Cold Winter
March 1, 2014: Watchdog: Stream Energy Target Of Racketeering Class-Action Lawsuit
Feb 28, 2014: Austin Software Company Noesis Energy Raises $6 Million For Expansion
Feb 28, 2014: Energy Studies Focus On Austin Neighborhood
March 3, 2014: NRG Talks Retail Margins, M&A in Discussing Earnings
March 2, 2014: PNM Resources Reports Healthy Finances In 2013
March 2, 2014: Under The U.S. Supreme Court: Climate Change Fight In The Balance
Feb 26, 2014: Hot Air About The EPA
Feb 28, 2014: Group Sees Higher Gas Usage As EPA’s Best Option In Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Rule
Feb 28, 2014: Utility CEO: Generators Will Soon Make Electric Grid an ‘Antiquated System’
Renewable Power
March 6, 2014: Citigroup, EFS Panhandle Seek Passive Interests In 218-MW Texas Wind Project
March 6, 2014: New Task Force To Evaluate Austin’s Green Energy Goals
March 6, 2014: Soda Can Solar Furnace Helps Cut Heating Bills
March 6, 2014: Wind Power Continues To Grow As Source Of American Electricity
March 6, 2014: When Will Solar Be More Affordable Than Traditional Utilities?
March 5, 2014: Can Wind And Solar Power Meet Our Energy Needs?
March 5, 2014: ACEEE Statement on Passage of the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2014 (HR 2126)
March 5, 2014: Can Offshore Wind Farms Protect Us From Hurricanes?
March 5, 2014: North American Wind Farm Operators Talk Business
March 5, 2014: Is Solar Power Cheaper than Grid Electricity?
March 5, 2014: New Report: U.S. Solar Market Grows 41%, Has Record Year in 2013
March 4, 2014: What Texas Must Overcome To Land Tesla’s Gigafactory
March 4, 2014: Tesla’s ‘Gigafactory’ Sets Off 4-State Bidding War
March 4, 2014: 5 Things To Know About How Tesla’s Huge Battery Factory Will Affect The Power Grid
March 4, 2014: Facebook Eyes Up DRONES: Social Network Rumoured To Be Spending $60m On Solar-Powered Aircraft To Bring Internet To Africa
March 3, 2014: Texas Ranks No. 6 For Solar Energy Jobs
March 3, 2014: Dots Connected:?Texas’ Growing Alternative Energy Market
March 3, 2014: Big Ideas For Tiny Windmills At UTA
Feb 27, 2014: Pecos County’s First Solar Farm Breaks Ground
March 3, 2014: Molten Salt Storage Gives Push To US Solar Power
Feb 28, 2014: Wind Deal Puts Austin Energy On Track To Meet Renewables Goal Four Years Early
Feb 27, 2014: Wind Industry Study: Electricity Prices Skyrocketing In Largest Wind Power States
Feb 26, 2014: Solar With Batteries Could Allow US ‘Grid Defection’ By 2030: Rocky Mountain Institute
Feb 28, 2014: Geothermal Offers Cost-Effective Alternative To Volatile Fuel Prices And Propane Shortages
Other News
March 5, 2014: Texas REP Launches Service in New York
March 4, 2014: Broker-consultant 5 Hires Texas Market Veteran
March 1, 2014: ‘Construction Flaws’ In Six Hanford Nuclear Waste Tanks, 13 More May Be Compromised – Report
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For the Week of 2/21/14 — 2/28/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Alert: Texas Consumers asked to conserve electricity Monday (3/3/2014) morning
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Feb 26, 2014: Judge Rules For Luminant In Sierra Club Suit
Feb 26, 2014: Luminant Wins Ruling in Pollution Suit, Sierra Club Says
Feb 24, 2014: Why Consumers Could Benefit From Energy Future Holdings’ Bankruptcy
Feb 20, 2014: Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Poised for Another Windfall on Energy Future Holdings
Feb 21, 2014: Energy Holdings Prepares for a Breakup Energy Future Seeks Loans as Bankruptcy Looms
Feb 21, 2014: KKR’s $45 Billion 2007 LBO Energy Future Holdings May Now Be Close To Bankruptcy
Generation Adequacy
Feb 28, 2014: Officials: Electricity Reserves Better Due to Efficiency
Feb 27, 2014: ERCOT Reports Significant Improvement in Reserve Margins, In Latest CDR Report
Feb 27, 2014: Calpine Completes Purchase of Guadalupe Power Plant in Texas for $625 Million
Feb 26, 2014: Remake Of Texas Electricity Market Likely To Wait As Supply Fears Abate
Feb 26, 2014: Nat Gas Prices May Hit You In The Electric Bill
Feb 22, 2014: Texas Commissioner Marty Says Energy Market “Healthy”, As Focus Shifts to Reliability Standard
Feb 21, 2014: Another Power Plant Proposed for Nolan County in Texas
Feb 22, 2014: Retail Suppliers Tell PJM Board They’re “Deeply Concerned” About “Lack of Transparency” on Reserves Charges
Headlines
Feb 27, 2014: Fitch Affirms 12 U.S. Utility Tariff Bond Transactions, including ERCOT Utilities
Feb 27, 2014: Dynegy Loss Narrows
Feb 27, 2014: Texas At Center Of Conflicting Pollution Lawsuits
Feb 27, 2014: Where Microgrids Stand In The Battle For Our Energy Future
Feb 26, 2014: Texas Staff Seek Additional $600,000 Administrative Penalty on Retail Provider, Alleging More Violations
Feb 26, 2014: For The Supreme Court, A Case Poses A Puzzle On The E.P.A.’S Authority
Feb 26, 2014: Active Power Expects To Raise More Than $9 Million In Stock Offering
Feb 26, 2014: GE Puts $1.4B Into Natural-Gas-Fired Distributed Power
Feb 26, 2014: Unique Challenges of Cyber Attacks for Utilities
Feb 25, 2014: 2 Statewide GOP Candidates Fell Victim To Energy Trading Scheme
Feb 25, 2014: El Paso Electric’s 2013 Profit Falls 2.5 Percent To $88.6 Million
Feb 25, 2014: Efficient Gas-Fired Power Plants Save 25-50 Time More Water Than Fracking Consumes
Feb 25, 2014: EPA Inspector General Reports On Agency Response To An Event That Never Happened At A Company That Doesn’t Exist
Feb 25, 2014: ALEC Drums Up Opposition To Upcoming EPA Power Plant Limits
Feb 25, 2014: Report: Texas Electric Complaints Down, But REP “Violations” Up in 2013
Feb 25, 2014: Texas REP Offering $200 Enrollment Bonus for Free Saturdays Plan
Feb 24, 2014: Workshop at TCEQ Focuses On Calculating Emissions
Feb 24, 2014: US Nuclear Projects On The Horizon
Feb 24, 2014: EEI And NRDC Closer To Getting It Right On Net Metering
Feb 24, 2014: Supreme Court Seems Divided In Climate Case
Feb 24, 2014: How Utilities Can Fight Physical And Cyber Attacks
Feb 22, 2014: Retail Provider Withdraws as Default REP at Sharyland
Feb 21, 2014: Bid To Connect Grids Needs Buy-In From Independent Texas
Feb 22, 2014: Electric Consumers Warned Of Phone Scams
Feb 22, 2014: Texas Commission to Further Consider Cease and Desist Authority
Feb 22, 2014: Fed Up With Government, Environmentalists Sue Companies
Feb 22, 2014: Justices To Hear Arguments In Test Of EPA Authority
Renewable Power
Feb 27, 2014: How Texas Made Wind Energy a Real Player
Feb 27, 2014: Tesla: 4 States Including Texas Contend For 6,500-Job Battery Plant
Feb 27, 2014: For Tesla, The Road May Lead Into Energy Storage
Feb 27, 2014: NREL Examines Solar Policy Pathways for States
Feb 27, 2014: Fitch Updates Rating Criteria for Solar Power Projects
Feb 27, 2014: GE Wind Turbine Lab Aims For Better Way To Do Job
Feb 27, 2014: Wind Power Helps Boost U.S. Renewable Generation Up 30% Last Week
Feb 26, 2014: Renewable Generation Up 30% Last Week As Gas Consumption Plummets 35%, GENSCAPE Reports
Feb 26, 2014: Tesla To Offer $1.6 Billion In Convertible Notes
Feb 26, 2014: Offshore Wind Farms Could Knock Down Hurricanes
Feb 25, 2014: New Power Lines Will Make Texas The World’s 5th-Largest Wind Power Producer
Feb 25, 2014: El Paso Electric And JUWI Announce New Solar Power Station To Be Built In Northeast El Paso, Texas
Feb 25, 2014: Alterra Power Completes Acquisition Of Shannon Wind Project in Texas
Feb 25, 2014: With Austin Energy Nearing Renewable-Energy Goal, Environmentalists Say Utility Can Do More
Feb 25, 2014: Tesla’s Battery Ambitions Gets Stock Jumping
Feb 25, 2014: Pricey Hydrogen Cars To Challenge Electric
Feb 25, 2014: NRG: “Testing” Beacon 10 Gas/Solar-Powered Distributed Gen Tech in Homes, Businesses
Feb 25, 2014: Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) To Recover Zinc From Steelworks Waste
Feb 24, 2014: Austin Solar Company Heliovolt Suspends Operations
Feb 24, 2014: Sunpower Partners With Meritage Homes On Supply Deal
Feb 24, 2014: Alterra Power Corp. Buys Texas Wind Power Project
Feb 24, 2014: News Roundup: Optimizing Wind, Camp’s Tax Plan, And A Call To Extend The PTC
Feb 24, 2014: Long-Lived Clean Power: Wind Turbines Last 25 Years, Study Says
Feb 24, 2014: Wind Power Stalls, Natural Gas Up Slightly In January New Power Capacity
Feb 24, 2014: New Year Off to Hot Start for US Solar Industry
Feb 24, 2014: DOE Awarding $3 Million To Support Geothermal Energy Systems With Capability Of Extracting Rare Earth Elements
Feb 24, 2014: Apple Plant Plans To Use 100 Percent Renewables
Feb 21, 2014: Austin Energy Pursues $558M Wind Energy Deal
Feb 21, 2014: The Butler Firm Assists First Solar’s Texas Barilla Solar Plant
Feb 21, 2014: Army Awards 20 Additional Contracts To Renewable Energy Companies
Feb 21, 2014: Optimizing The Wind Energy Resource
Other News
Feb 26, 2014: Oncor Electric Delivery Joins the Utility Analytics Institute
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For the Week of 2/14/14 — 2/21/14
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Feb 21, 2014: Lengthy Bankruptcy Looking More Likely for Energy Future
Feb 21, 2014: TXU/Energy Advisers Bankruptcy: Commodity Price Reality Bites
Feb 21, 2014: EFH Considers Breakup As Deal Remains Ellusive
Feb 21, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Weighs A Breakup As Creditor Talks Go On
Feb 21, 2014: Energy Holding Prepares for a Breakup
Feb 21, 2014: Oncor Schedules Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2013 Investor Call
Generation Adequacy
Feb 20, 2014: Plans Unveiled For Natural Gas-Powered Power Plant In Nolan County, Texas
Feb 19, 2014: Will The New Texas Power Report Change The Game?
Feb 19, 2014: Proposed “Electricity Tax” Sends Wrong Message To Texans—Old And New
Feb 18, 2014: NTE Energy to Develop One of the Most Efficient Natural Gas Fired Power Plants in ERCOT
Feb 17, 2014: How Electric Vehicles are Strengthening the Texas Power Grid and improving Air Quality
Feb 14, 2014: Coal Powers Past Natural Gas To Electrify Texas In January
Headlines
Feb 20, 2014: Centrica Says It’s Less Inclined to Pursue Retail Energy M&A in Certain U.S. Regions, but not Texas
Feb 20, 2014: Fitch Affirms AEP & Subs; Outlook Revised to Stable for AEP, Ohio Power, & Kentucky Power
Feb 20, 2014: Will Oxy’s Divorce Spur The Break Up Of Big Oil?
Feb 20, 2014: Flurry Of US Coal Power Plant Shutdowns Expected By 2016
Feb 20, 2014: US Utilities And Distributed Generators: Enemies No More?
Feb 20, 2014: DOE Loan Guarantees Finalized For Plant Voglte Expansion
Feb 19, 2014: Direct Energy Profits Down on Margin Pressure, Launches $100M Cost Reduction Initiative, Warns on Impact from Extreme Weather
Feb 19, 2014: 3 States Including Texas Driving Energy Storage For Utilities And Customers
Feb 19, 2014: Texas Staff Proposes Lower Upfront Smart Meter Opt-Out Charge at TDUs
Feb 18, 2014: TXU Energy Tells Smart Energy Summit Attendees: Innovate to Enhance the Customer Experience
Feb 18, 2014: TriEagle Energy Launches Service in New Territory
Feb 18, 2014: Opinion: Major Texas Competition Advocates Left Behind by Grassroots Choice Movement
Feb 18, 2014: Party Seeks Introduction of Electric Choice at El Paso Electric, in Texas Proceeding Reviewing New EPE Power Plants
Feb 18, 2014: 34 Groups: Reactor Licensing Should Be Suspended Until NRC Addresses New Findings On Nuclear Reactor Pool Fire Risks, Costs
Feb 18, 2014: U.S. Orders Power Grid To Prepare For Solar Storms
Feb 17, 2014: China’s Goldleaf Eyes Texas Energy Company
Feb 17, 2014: Switch To Gas From Coal May Threaten Water Supply
Feb 17, 2014: US Forecasts Increase In Coal-Fired Power Plant Retirements By 2020
Feb 17, 2014: EPA Power Plant Regs Depend on Enhanced Oil Recovery
Feb 14, 2014: Occidental Petroleum To Spin Off California Assets, Move To Houston
Feb 14, 2014: Gates-Backed Energy Company Files For Bankruptcy Protection
Feb 14, 2014: Bill Gates’ Energy Co. Files For Bankruptcy
Feb 14, 2014: Christine Todd Whitman Making A Case For Nuclear Power
Feb 14, 2014: EEI, Wall Street Talks Include Policy, Environment
Feb 14, 2014: Murkowski Warns That EPA Rules, Renewables Could Threaten Electric Reliability
Feb 14, 2014: Report: EPA Regulations To Accelerate Coal Plant Shutdowns
Feb 14, 2014: Obama To Propose $1 Billion To Prepare For Climate Change
US Power Plant Attacks
Feb 20, 2014: Hope For Grid Security? The Federal Government May Actually Get Something Done
Feb 19, 2014: Deterring Substation Attacks
Feb 19, 2014: IBM, GMU Faculty to Research ‘Evolving Threat Landscape’ in Electric Power
Feb 18, 2014: Power Companies Struggle to Maintain Defenses Against Cyber-Attacks
Feb 17, 2014: Schumer Calls for Increased Security at US Power Plants
Feb 17, 2014: FERC Responds to Senate Inquiry about Physical Grid Security
Renewable Power
Feb 20, 2014: EPE, Newman Solar To Build 10Mw Energy Plant In Texas
Feb 20, 2014: Solar Plant Planned for Pecos County in West Texas
Feb 20, 2014: The Companies That Are Using The Most Solar Power
Feb 20, 2014: Sugar-Powered Biobattery Has 10 Times The Energy Storage Of Lithium: Your Smartphone Might Soon Run On Enzymes
Feb 19, 2014: Colorado Company To Build El Paso County’s Largest Solar Plant For El Paso Electric
Feb 19, 2014: New Solar Power Station to be Built in Northeast El Paso
Feb 19, 2014: More Wind Energy Means Lower Electricity Prices
Feb 19, 2014: New Generation Power Texas Wind Farm Project Kicks Off
Feb 19, 2014: Baker Electric Solar To Host Five Solar Open Houses including San Marcos This Spring
Feb 19, 2014: Global Concentrated Solar Power Market: United States Dominates Production With 63% Share
Feb 18, 2014: St. David’s to Unveil Pilot Solar Project in Austin
Feb 17, 2014: Sunny Prospects As Texas Climbs Rankings On Solar Jobs
Feb 17, 2014: Wind Energy Is Safe For The Environment
Feb 17, 2014: Google’s Big Investment In Clean Energy
Feb 17, 2014: Google Investing More Than $1 Billion In Alternative Energy
Feb 13, 2014: First Wind Obtains $206M Financing For 150-MW Texas Wind Project
Feb 14, 2014: Wind Power Found to Affect Local Climate
Feb 14, 2014: Analysis: Obama Limited For Action On Wind Power
Feb 14, 2014: Solar Power Coming of Age But Big and Expensive
Feb 14, 2014: U.S. Solar Power Becoming Competitive, Moniz Says
Feb 14, 2014: Adequate Transmission Among Options to Better Integrate Renewable Energy to Grid, Says NREL
Other News
Feb 20, 2014: Centerpoint Energy Appoints New Board Member
Feb 20, 2014: Tesla Shares Hit A Record On Earnings News
Feb 19, 2014: Start-up Receives Texas Retail Electric Provider Certificate
Feb 19, 2014: Welcome To ‘Saudi Texas’
Feb 18, 2014: In The Dark About Picking A Light Bulb? This FAQ Can Help
Feb 18, 2014: Taking Teamwork to Heart: Martin Lake Power Plant Employees Receive Luminant Lifesaving Award
Feb 18, 2014: A Self-Driving Tesla? Tantalizing But Not Practical
Feb 14, 2014: Superconductivity in Orbit: Scientists Find New Path to Loss-Free Electricity
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For the Week of 2/7/14 — 2/14/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Feb 11, 2014: Energy Future Holdings May Be Lining Up Loans For Bankruptcy
Feb 11, 2014: Energy Future Holdings Reportedly Seeks Financing To Use During Bankruptcy
Feb 11, 2014: Energy Future Said to Revive Talks on Bankruptcy Funding
Generation Adequacy
Feb 12, 2014: Coal’s Share Of ERCOT Market Remains Strong, Gas’ Share Falls Again
Feb 11, 2014: Despite Sufficient Reserves, Texas Power Providers Warn Of Rolling Blackout Risk
Feb 11, 2014: Luminant’s Reopened Power Plants Are Dirty Old Relics
Feb 12, 2014: FERC Grants Windfall to Generators By Allowing Offers In Excess Of $1,000/MWh to Set Clearing Price
Feb 10, 2014: Luminant to Restart East Texas Power Plants
Feb 10, 2014: Brattle FERC Report: “Energy-Only Markets Can Attract The Optimal Level Of Generation Investments”
Feb 8, 2014: Copelin: Texas Blackout Debate — Doing Nothing Is Now An Option
Feb 7, 2014: Texas To Consider Target Power Margin Review Amid Push To Drop Capacity Market Talk
Feb 7, 2014: Electric Cars Seen Having Role in Stabilizing Texas Power Grid
Feb 10, 2014: Brattle FERC Report: “Energy-Only Markets Can Attract The Optimal Level Of Generation Investments”
Headlines
Feb 13, 2014: CPS Energy Wants To Contract Out Management Of Villita Assembly
Feb 13, 2014: Calpine Corporation : Calpine Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results, Raises 2014 Guidance
Feb 13, 2014: NEI Tells Wall Streeters Reliable Power Generation Is Undervalued
Feb 12, 2014: As US Endures Winter, Coal Trumpeted As Backbone Of Reliability
Feb 12, 2014: EPA Considered Few Projects Not Funded by EPACT for CCS Determination
Feb 12, 2014: Texas REPs Say Customer Data Proposal from Demand Response Providers Would Compel REPs to Act as “Middleman” for Third Parties
Feb 12, 2014: Texas Consumer Groups Seek More Granular Retail Electric Complaint Data
Feb 12, 2014: Austin Utilities Likely To Get Building
Feb 12, 2014: 150 Texas Crossroads Residents Attend EPA Hearing About Uranium Mining
Feb 12, 2014: DOE Official: Initial CCS Technologies Estimated to Increase Wholesale Electricity Costs Up to “70 to 80 Percent”
Feb 12, 2014: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Says Nuclear Waste Bill Doubtful This Congress
Feb 12, 2014: Status of DOE’s Clean Coal Program
Feb 12, 2014: EEI Tells Wall Street Electricity Is Main Ingredient Of Our Lives
Feb 12, 2014: EPRI Launches Study On The ‘Integrated Grid’
Feb 12, 2014: White House Plan to Help Banks, Utilities Fight Hackers
Feb 11, 2014: Nuclear Waste Storage On Texas Lawmakers’ Agenda
Feb 11, 2014: Entergy Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings
Feb 10, 2014: TXU Energy Reminder: Long, Harsh Winter Means Higher Electricity Usage
Feb 11, 2014: TXU, Veteran Energy Post Pricing for Sharyland-Cap Rock Service Areas Opening to Choice
Feb 10, 2014: Cruz To Target Regulations In Wide Ranging Energy Bill
Feb 10, 2014: How Can A Nation Awash In Natural Gas Have Shortages?
Feb 10, 2014: Great River Energy And The Brattle Group Present Innovative Approach For Compliance With EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Feb 10, 2014: EPRI Recommends Regulators Begin To Re-Think Notions Of Power Grid
Feb 9, 2014: Watchdog: Here’s The Best Way To Pick An Electricity Company In Texas
Feb 9, 2014: Xcel Energy Subsidiary Fined For Unreliable Electricity
Feb 9, 2014: Texas County To Host Power Plant Hearing
Feb 9, 2014: CenterPoint Settles Lawsuit With Family Of 2 Burned Children, Begins Inspection Of Guy Wires
Feb 7, 2014: Ruling On Immunity In Power Suit in West Texas Highlights ‘Multi-Million-Dollar Question’
Feb 9, 2014: Energy Secretary: Texas Is On The Right Track With Oil, Gas, Wind
Feb 7, 2014: EPA Proposes Commission On Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Take Over Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Permitting In Texas
US Power Plant Attacks
Feb 12, 2014: Second Possible Terror Attack on U.S. Power Plant Uncovered
Feb 11, 2014: 2nd US Power Plant was Attacked by Armed Gunman
Flashback–April 23, 2013: Shots fired at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
Feb 12, 2014: Why An Underreported, ‘Significant Incident of Domestic Terrorism’ Might Not Be a Failed Attack at All
Feb 11, 2014: Sophisticated But Low-Tech Power Grid Attack Baffles Authorities
Feb 11, 2014: Sen. Murkowski Calls for Greater Emphasis on Protecting Electric Reliability
Feb 10, 2014: Sniper Attack On Calif. Power Station Leads To Calls For More Security
Feb 7, 2014: Attack On California Power Station Heightens Concerns About Grid Security
Feb 7, 2014: Lawmakers Urge Federal Takeover Of Electrical Grid Security
Renewable Power
Feb 13, 2014: New Generation Power Texas Breaks Ground on 400 Megawatt Wind Farm
Feb 13, 2014: Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates World’s Largest Concentrating Solar Power Project
Feb 13, 2014: DOE Celebrating Solar Success
Feb 13, 2014: Green Power participation grows 33 percent
Feb 13, 2014: Giant Laser Complex Makes Fusion Advance, Finally
Feb 13, 2014: New Solar Technology Captures High-Energy Photons More Efficiently
Feb 12, 2014: First Wind Finances Route 66
Feb 12, 2014: First Wind Secures $206 Million Financing for Route 66 Wind Project and Continues Construction of First Project in Texas
Feb 12, 2014: Abernathy in West Texas May Get Solar Energy Farm
Feb 12, 2014: NREL Report Finds Similar Value in Two CSP Technologies
Feb 11, 2014: New Study Finds 4,100 Solar Jobs in Texas
Feb 11, 2014: 90 Percent Of States Added Solar Jobs In 2013, Fueled By Growth In The South
Feb 11, 2014: Wind Power Is Boring; This Isn’t
Feb 11, 2014: Wind Energy Faces Uncertain Future In The US
Feb 11, 2014: Green Energy Could Show Utility Investors the Money
Feb 11. 2014: What’s Next for Solar Stocks?
Feb 10, 2014: U.S. Senators Propose Extension Of Investment Tax Credit, A Key Solar Policy
Other News
Feb 13, 2014: Liquid-Cooled Supercomputers, To Trim The Power Bill
Feb 12, 2014: IKEA Plugs-in 2 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Houston
Feb 12, 2014: Co-Founder of StarTex, Joins Board of Retail Energy Company
Feb 12, 2014: TXU Energy Marketing “Support and Save” Affinity Program for Non-profits
Feb 12, 2014: Gas Marketer With 1.6 Million Customers to Enter Retail Electric Supply Business
Feb 10, 2014: Affiliate of Retail Supplier Offering $600 for Solar Referrals; Still Offering 2 Years Free Electricity
Feb 10, 2014: Parent of Texas Retail Provider Names New President
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For the Week of 1/31/14 — 2/7/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Feb 6, 2014: TPG Capital Said to Seek $1.25 Billion for Energy Fund
Generation Adequacy
Feb 6, 2014: Cold Weather Prompts Call For Power Conservation In Texas
Feb 6, 2014: Studies Prove Texas Grid Is Healthy, Commissioner Says
Feb 6, 2014: Hedge Funds Bet On Us Gas Shortage As Cold Boosts Demand
Feb 6, 2014: ERCOT Adds 848 MW Of Wind, Energized $3.17B In Transmission In 2013
Feb 6, 2014: FERC Price Cap Ruling Could Reverberate for Years
Feb 6, 2014: FERC Demands More Data on Import Cap
Feb 6, 2014: Freezes Hit U.S. Natural Gas Output, California Supply
Feb 5, 2014: ERCOT Energy-Only Market Expected To Support Average Reserve Margin
Feb 5, 2014: Electric Trucks Provide Frequency Regulation In ERCOT
Feb 4, 2014: Luminant Restarts 3 Texas Coal-Fired Units As Power Prices Rise
Feb 4, 2014: Luminant Restarts Power Units Early As Natural Gas Prices Rise
Feb 3, 2014: In Grid Debate, New Info Doesn’t Sway Opinions
Feb 3, 2014: Brattle Economists Analyze Economically-Optimal Planning Reserve Margin For Texas Power Market
Jan 31, 2014: Texas Power Capacity Market Debate Falls On Doorstep Of State Legislators
Jan 31, 2014: Report: Texas Can Wait To Address Threat Of Power Shortages
Jan 31, 2014: New Report Will Figure In Debate Over Electricity Reserves
Feb 3, 2014: Brattle: Current Texas Energy-Only Market Can Maintain Optimal Reserve Margin
Headlines
Feb 6, 2014: U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Visits Austin, With Praise
Feb 6, 2014: Appellate Court Says Lubbock Immune In Republic Power Lawsuit, Not WTMPA
Feb 6, 2014: Texas QSE to Pay $10,000 Under Settlement With PUCT Staff
Feb 6, 2014: FERC Pick a Blank Slate
Feb 6, 2014: Texas Hailed For Challenging EPA Regs
Feb 6, 2014: GOP Texans Blast EPA At Congressional Hearing
Feb 6, 2014: Smith: EPA Should Allow Texas Flexibility to Regulate
Feb 4, 2014: Huntsville Rejects Rate Increases By Entergy
Feb 5, 2014: Assault On California Power Station Raises Alarm On Potential For Terrorism
Feb 5, 2014: Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us
Feb 5, 2014: Ex-Federal Official Raises Concerns Over Terror Attack On Power Grid
Feb 5, 2014: What You Need to Know About Attacks on the U.S. Power Grid
Feb 5, 2014: Quote Du Jour: Texas And Obama’s Energy Strategy
Feb 5, 2014: EPA Names Landfill Gas Projects Of The Year
Feb 5, 2014: E.P.A. Staff Struggling To Create Pollution Rule
Feb 5, 2014: Partisan Fight Over Epa’s Role In Texas Emerges At House Hearing
Feb 5, 2014: NEMA-Backed Smart Grid Study Passes House Committee
Feb 4, 2014: Last Line Energized, $6.8B Texas CREZ Project Is Complete
Feb 4, 2014: Austin Council Members Say Cutting Ties With Coal Plant Too Expensive
Feb 4, 2014: EPA Shifts Greenhouse Gas Permitting To Texas
Feb 4, 2014: New Texas REP Launches Rewards Program, Including 3% Off Bills for Lifetime
Feb 4, 2014: Revolutionizing The Power Supply, One Smart Building At A Time
Feb 5, 2014: Ex-Federal Official Raises Concerns Over Terror Attack On Power Grid
Feb 3, 2014: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NEM, DSA Warn of “Extortionate Settlements” if Retail Energy Court Ruling Upheld
Feb 3, 2014: Direct Energy Releases Pricing for Texas Smart Thermostat Plan
Feb 3, 2014: Initial REP Pricing Posted for Sharyland Service Areas Newly Open to Choice
Feb 3, 2014: Texas Is Considering Accepting High-Level Radioactive Waste, And Environmentalists Are Pissed
Feb 1, 2014: Could Texas Become Home To Highly Radioactive Waste?
Feb 3, 2014: EPA’s Proposed New Source Clean Air Act Standards And Carbon Capture And Storage Technology
Jan 31, 2014: Court Ruling Could Limit LCRA Claims Against KPUB
Jan 31, 2014: Entergy Declares Dividend
Feb 1, 2014: A Pro-Business Stance That’s Bad For Business
Jan 31, 2014: States, Utilities Face Challenges with Net Metering
Renewable Power
Feb 6, 2014: Sen. Franken to Hold Hearing Examining State Efforts to Implement Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Policy
Feb 5, 2014: Novel Solar Cell Technology Handles The Blues
Feb 5, 2014: Siemens Awarded Wind Turbine Order For Windthorst-2 Wind Power Plant
Feb 4, 2014: The Lone Star State’s Clean-Energy Leader
Feb 4, 2014: Siemens Wins Turbine Order For Texas Wind Power Project
Feb 4, 2014: Obama Administration Proposes 30-Year Eagle Kill Permits
Feb 4, 2014: Apple’s Future Smartwatch Likely To Run On Solar Power
Feb 1, 2014: Texas Based Company Abandons Plans For Wind-Energy Farm In Newport
Jan 31, 2014: Solar Comes To The Super Bowl
Feb 2, 2014: Wind Packs A Powerful Punch In Denton
Jan 31, 2014: Siemens Wins Turbine Order For Google-Backed Wind Farm
Jan 31, 2014: A Wind Power Record For 2014, One Texas Town’s Push For More Wind, And A Look At The World’s Biggest Turbine
Feb 1, 2014: Texas Based Company Abandons Plans For Wind-Energy Farm In Newport
Jan 31, 2014: Solar Comes To The Super Bowl
Other News
Feb 5, 2014: Texas REP Offering Concierge Services to Customers
Feb 5, 2014: Retail Supplier Adopts Brand “America’s Energy Choice”
Feb 4, 2014: Texas Co-op Rebuilds Toad Habitat
Feb 4, 2014: Texas Professor Prepares To Move Into A Dumpster
Feb 3, 2014: Comcast Picks NRG As Electricity Partner In Pennsylvania
Feb 3, 2014: Solar San Antonio Founder Bill Sinkin Dead At 100
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For the Week of 1/24/14 — 1/31/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Jan 28, 2014: Energy Future Board Wins Dismissal of Aurelius Loan Suit
Jan 24, 2014: KKR’s Marc Lipschultz Resigns From Energy Future Holdings Board
Generation Adequacy
Jan 30, 2014: FERC Approves Change in PJM Capacity Market Seen as Increasing Costs $1.8 Billion Over Two Years
Jan 28, 2014: Smart Meter Backers See Role In Texas Power Market Debate
Jan 28, 2014: Texas Capacity Market Supporter Asks FERC to “Permanently Eliminate” $1,000/MWh Price Cap in New York
Jan 28, 2014: Power Marketer Slams PJM’s “Objectionable” Request to Lift $1,000/MWh Price Cap “On The Fly”
Jan 27, 2014: In Texas, Wind Nears 10 Percent of Electricity Generation
Jan 27, 2014: PJM Seeks to Allow LMPs to Exceed $1,000/MWh Cap; May Be Easily Gamed
Jan 24, 2014: New Forecast Challenges Views On Texas Electricity Crunch
Jan 24, 2014: New Forecast Should Drive Stake Through The Heart Of Proposed Energy Tax
Headlines
Jan 30, 2014: Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative Warning Customers About Potentially Higher Bills
Jan 30, 2014: Scammers Target Bandera Electric Coop. Members
Jan 30, 2014: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program Doing Better Than Expected
Jan 30, 2014: Opinion – Time Not Ripe For Carbon Capture Technology
Jan 29, 2014: EPA, Texas Reach Deal On Clean Air Plan
Jan 29, 2014: West Texas Gas To Supply Carbon Sciences’ First Gas-To-Liquids Plant
Jan 29, 2014: Decision Makers, Developers Of Texas Transmission Grid Meet In San Antonio
Jan 29, 2014: New Power Lines To Houston Proposed
Jan 29, 2014: Fitch Affirms Granbury (TX) Utility Revenue Bonds at ‘A+’; Outlook Stable
Jan 29, 2014: Obama’s ‘Warmed Up’ To Executive Action; Will Use It For ‘Climate Change And Energy Transformation Agenda’
Jan 29, 2014: Electric Power’s Five Biggest Challenges: Part Three — Multi-Customer Microgrids
Jan 29, 2014: Houston Companies Predicted To Be The Big Winners Under Mexico’s Energy Reform
Jan 28, 2014: New Texas Retail Provider to Offer Smart Thermostat Solution
Jan 28, 2014: Texas-New Mexico Power to Restore Customers’ Power, More Quickly, Safely and Efficiently with Ventyx Solution
Jan 28, 2014: Exelon Corporation Declares Dividend
Jan 28, 2014: Power Plant On The Table in West Texas
Jan 27, 2014: New Power Lines May Be Coming To Houston
Jan 27, 2014: Kyle Energy Storage Company Xtreme Power Files For Bankruptcy
Jan 27, 2014: NRG Energy Announces Closing Of Senior Notes Offering
Jan 27, 2014: American Electric Power Beats on Earnings, Revs
Jan 27, 2014: Power Outage Solutions Seen
Jan 27, 2014: New Research Warns World To Prepare For Power Outages
Jan 23, 2014: Oncor: December Storm Worst In Company’s 60-Year History
Jan 26, 2014: Utility2utility: Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative
Jan 23, 2014: El Paso Electric Announces Quarterly Dividend
Jan 24, 2014: EIA Now Providing More Detail On Electric Capacity Additions And Retirements
Renewable Power
Jan 30, 2014: How One Texas Town Is Big, Really Big, On Wind Power
Jan 30, 2014: In Much Of US, Wind Is Most Economic Form Of New Generation, Nextera Exec Says
Jan 30, 2014: Intel, Microsoft, Kohl’s Lead EPA’s Green Power Ranking
Jan 29, 2014: Siemens Nets Wind Turbine Order For Texas Wind Power Project
Jan 29, 2014: Siemens Wins Turbine Order And Service Contract For 79 Wind Turbines In Texas
Jan 29, 2014: Isle Wind Farm Contractor Has Filed For Bankruptcy
Jan 29, 2014: Solar Provides 0.2% Of Electric Supply–Up From 0.02% Before Obama
Jan 29, 2014: Google Continues To Show Strong Support For Wind And Other Forms Of Clean Energy
Jan 29, 2014: Apple Awarded Solar Power Patent For Macbook
Jan 29, 2014: SEIA praises Obama’s solar support in SOTU address
Jan 28, 2014: A High-Renewables Tomorrow, Today: Denton, Texas
Jan 28, 2014: American Solar Companies: It’s Where The Jobs Are
Jan 28, 2014: Utility-Scale US Solar Capacity Grew 43% In 2013
Jan 28, 2014: Who’s Your Energy Daddy?
Jan 28, 2014: Geothermal Power Rings Show Promise
Jan 27, 2014: First Solar begins construction on Phase I of Barilla Solar Project, Texas
Jan 27, 2014: Clean Energy Hopes Natural-Gas-Powered Autos Fuel Its First Profit
Jan 27, 2014: Solar Led Lighting Brings Safety To Remote Communities
Jan 27, 2014: Don’t Get Blown Away by the Naysayers: 3 Reasons to Be Bullish on Wind
Jan 27, 2014: MIT Researchers Enhancing Solar Power
Jan 27, 2014: New Study Finds U.S. Solar Jobs Grew 20% Last Year
Jan 27, 2014: The U.S. added 2.94 GW of utility-scale solar PV, CSP in 2013
Jan 27, 2014: Solar top US renewable of 2013
Jan 27, 2014: Renewable Energy Provides 37% of All New US Electrical Generating Capacity in 2013
Jan 27, 2014: Honda Ramps Up U.S. Wind Power Capability
Jan 24, 2014: First Solar Begins Construction Of Texas Solar Project On Merchant Basis
Jan 24, 2014: Solar Plant planned for Pecos County
Jan 24, 2014: New Yeast Makes Oil From Sugar – UT Austin Researchers Say It’s A ‘Renewable Sweet Crude’
Jan 26, 2014: Energy Alternatives Important For Future Generations
Jan 24, 2014: Solar Power: What We Want It To Be vs. What It Is
Jan 24, 2014: New Solar Cell Technology Captures High-Energy Photons More Efficiently
Jan 24, 2014: Could Wind Emerge As a Major Provider of Frequency Regulation?
Other News
Jan 30, 2014: Northeast Retail Supplier Receives Texas Rep Certificate
Jan 30, 2014: Oncor Launches Online News Outlet, ‘The Wire’
Jan 29, 2014: Blackstone, Private Equity to Acquire Majority Stake in Parent of National Retail Supplier
Jan 29, 2014: 2 States Feel The Market Heat As Their Deregulated Neighbors Reap Rewards
Jan 28, 2014: TXU Officially Announces New Products Offering Credits At Usage Thresholds; Says “Thousands” Have Enrolled
Jan 28, 2014: Class Action Lawsuit “Certified” Which Threatens Entire Channel of Retail Energy Marketing
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For the Week of 1/17/14 — 1/24/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Jan 21, 2014: Energy Future Eyes Reorganization After Gas Prices Spoil Record Buyout
Generation Adequacy
Jan 23, 2014: ERCOT Now Forecasts Slower Growth In Electricity Demand In Texas
Jan 23, 2014: ERCOT Looking At Reducing Its Texas Power Demand Forecast
Jan 23, 2014: New Forecast Gives Hope For Power Reserves In Texas
Jan 23, 2014: Texas Grid Operator: Cold Snap Won’t Spark Another Power Emergency
Jan 22, 2014: Texas Lt. Governor Candidate Todd Staples Asks PUCT to Reject Capacity Market
Jan 22, 2014: Preliminary Revised ERCOT Load Forecast Shows Reserve Margin Above 16% Until 2019
Jan 22, 2014: Owner of 13,000 MW of Merchant Generation: PJM’s Capacity Auctions Don’t Provide Adequate Support for Competitive Generators
Jan 21, 2014: Behind Texas Electric Grid Emergency Alert, a Power Plant Failure, Not Demand
Jan 21, 2014: What Billions in Capacity Payments Buy: Shoestring-Operated Generators Unable to Run Because No Staff is Present
Jan 21, 2014: Seven Years Later, Capacity Market Conceded by RTO To Be A “Failure”
Jan 19, 2014: Saturday: ERCOT Issues ‘Power Watch,’ Asks For Energy Conservation After ‘Sudden Outage’
Jan 17, 2014: Texas’ System Of Electric Reliability
Jan 20, 2014: ERCOT: Demand Increased Only 1% in 2013
Jan 17, 2014: ERCOT: Electricity use up 2.1 percent in 2013
Headlines
Jan 23, 2014: Providers Talk About Higher Electricity Bills
Jan 23, 2014: Expansion of Choice to New Texas Service Areas On Track for May Start
Jan 23, 2014: With Strain on Electric Grid, a Push to Prioritize Conservation
Jan 23, 2014: NRG Offers Free Charging For Some Electric Cars
Jan 24, 2014: Frigid Temperatures Heat Up Home Utility Bills
Jan 23, 2014: 17 Million Residential Consumers in North America Participate in Competitive Electricity Markets
Jan 23, 2014: Just As Cornyn Faults EPA, Europe Said To Weigh Costs Of Climate Change Policies
Jan 23, 2014: Nuclear Plants Look At 80 Years Of Operation As Coal Sits On Sidelines
Jan 23, 2014: Xtreme Power, Grid-Scale Energy Storage Startup, Files for Bankruptcy
Jan 23, 2014: AES Storage Solutions Surpass 1.5 Million Megawatt-Hours of Delivered Service
Jan 23, 2014: Transmission and Energy Storage 2014 Outlook: The Macro and Micro Transformation of Electric Grids
Jan 22, 2014: Texas Regulators Air Concerns on Greenhouse Gas Rules
Jan 22, 2014: ERCOT Plans More Than $3.6 Billion In Transmission Improvements
Jan 22, 2014: American Electric Power Declares Quarterly Dividend On Common Stock
Jan 22, 2014: NRG Energy, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend
Jan 22, 2014: Entergy Fourth-Quarter Profit Better Than Market Had Expected
Jan 22, 2014: Fitch Affirms San Miguel Electric Coop, TX’s Sr. Secured Obligations at ‘A-‘; Outlook Stable
Jan 22, 2014: Representatives From World’s Largest Utilities To Attend DistribuTECH
Jan 22, 2014: Nuclear Update: US Output Tugged Lower By Texas, Minn. Outages
Jan 21, 2014: TXU to Reward TX Customers $37m In Cash Back
Jan 21, 2014: Industry Spokesman Says Federal Standards Would Effectively Ban New Coal-Fired Power Plants
Jan 21, 2014: Will Electric Cars Kill Utility Grids? No, Study Says.
Jan 21, 2014: Electric Power’s Five Biggest Challenges: Part Two — Involving Customers In Grid Operations
Jan 21, 2014: Energy Reform Among Several Sweeping Changes For Mexico
Jan 20, 2014: Texas Company, Alone In U.S., Cashes In On Nuclear Waste
Jan 20, 2014: Weinstein: Nuclear Power Can Bring Long-Term Stability To The Stressed Electric Grid
Jan 17, 2014: Electric Highway Open For Business
Jan 17, 2014: Direct Energy Completes Sale Of Three Texas Power Plants To Blackstone
Jan 19, 2014: Lines Drawn Over Power Lines In Williamson County
Jan 17, 2014: Hackers Can Turn Your Home Appliances Against You
Jan 20, 2014: Infrastructure Investment, Fair Pricing Key To Reliability
Jan 17, 2014: Senate Republicans Attack EPA On Carbon Cuts At Coal Plants
Jan 17, 2014: To Balance Energy Demand, We Need Nuclear Power
Jan 17, 2014: How a Smarter Grid Can Prevent Blackouts—and Cut Your Energy Bills
Jan 17, 2014: Electrifying the Globe: Two-steps Into Texas
Jan 17, 2014: Obama Names Cheryl Lafleur Acting Chairman Of FERC
Renewable Power
Jan 23, 2014: First Solar Begins Construction On Texas Solar Power Project
Jan 23, 2014: NREL Finds Wind Turbines Can Boost Grid System Readiness
Jan 23, 2014: How Do You Recycle a Solar Panel?
Jan 22, 2014: Solar Plant Planned for West Texas
Jan 22, 2014: DG Growth And Energy Storage – FERC Reforms The SGIA Process
Jan 22, 2014: An Led Bulb Is Both Dimmable And Affordable
Jan 22, 2014: How Solar Power Is Changing the Game for U.S. Automakers
Jan 21, 2014: A Central Texas Family Receives Solar Lights
Jan 21, 2014: UT Austin Engineer Converts Yeast Cells Into ‘Sweet Crude’ Biofuel
Jan 21, 2014: Why One Analyst Sees The ‘Early Innings’ Of A Solar Stock Upswing
Jan 21, 2014: Innovative Coating Could Keep Wind Turbines from Freezing During Wintertime
Jan 21, 2014: Solar On The Rise At US Military Bases
Jan 20, 2014: Are We Giving This Renewable Energy Source Enough Credit?
Jan 19, 2014: NREL Study: Active Power Control of Wind Turbines Can Improve Power Grid Reliability
Jan 19, 2014: Renewable Electricity Generation Rises Driven By The Wind And The Sun
Jan 20, 2014: There’s More Than One Way To Invest In Solar Power
Jan 19, 2014: There Are An Increasing Number Of Ways To Invest In Solar Power’s Rise
Jan 19, 2014: Valuing Geothermal Power: In Today’s Renewable Energy Market
Jan 19, 2014: The State Of The “Smart Grid” Today, And Google’s Future Role In It
Jan 18, 2014: Principal Solar Seeks To Buy 250 Megawatts Of Projects, CEO Says
Jan 17, 2014: For Some Paranoid Patriots In Houston, There’s A Spy Inside The Thermostat
Jan 17, 2014: US Congress Orders Suspension Of Wind Power Subsidies
Jan 17, 2014: Is Google On Its Way To Becoming Your Cleantech Utility?
Other News
Jan 22, 2014: Oncor Rep Explains Severity Of December Storm
Jan 22, 2014: Auto Show Electrifies Some Before They Know It
Jan 21, 2014: New Texas REP to Offer Prepaid Service
Jan 21, 2014: North Texans to Texas Railroad Commission: Stop the ‘Frackquakes’
Jan 21, 2014: Houston’s Ozone Mystery: Pockets of Pollution Unlike Other Cities
Jan 17, 2014: Toyota Wants To Prove Elon Musk Wrong
Jan 20, 2014: Texas REP Offering Free Boots ($350 Value) with Enrollment
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For the Week of 1/10/14 — 1/17/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Generation Adequacy
Jan 16, 2014: How The Polar Vortex Impacted Energy Prices, Grid Reliability
Jan 15, 2014: Winter Weather Brings Peak In Power Use
Jan 15, 2014: Texas Power Prices Jumped More Than States Hit Harder By Polar Vortex
Jan 15, 2014: Report: Percent of PJM Forced Outages During Cold Snap Grid Stress Four Times That of ERCOT
Jan 14, 2014: Could Solar Solve Texas’ Peak Demand Problem?
Jan 14, 2014: ERCOT Energy Usage Up In December And For All Of 2013
Jan 14, 2014: Power Crisis Costs in ERCOT Haven’t Hit Home
Jan 14, 2014: ERCOT Receives Notification of Suspension of Operations
Jan 14, 2014: Businesses Continue to Flock to Texas Despite Alleged Resource Inadequacy
Jan 10, 2014: West Texas Wind Helped Power Through Cold
Jan 9, 2014: Did Wind Really Save Texas from Rolling Outages?
Jan 10, 2014: Energy Investors Grabs Texas Power Plant
Headlines
Jan 16, 2014: Texas Staff File Draft Language to Ensure No Financial Gap Where REP’s Affiliate Assumes POLR Obligation
Jan 16, 2014: Texas Staff File Changes to Retail Delivery Tariff, Timelines for Discretionary Services Provided to REPs
Jan 16, 2014: CPS Energy Begins Smart Meter Rollout
Jan 16, 2014: We Can’t Expect a Reliable Energy Future Without Talking Water
Jan 16, 2014: New EPA Rule Is First Ever To Limit Carbon Emissions From New Power Plants
Jan 16, 2014: Bruning Challenges New EPA Rules
Jan 16, 2014: Mitch Mcconnell Launches Pre-Emptive Strike On EPA Climate Rule
Jan 16, 2014: Potential Seen For Market-Based Approach In EPA Regulation Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Jan 16, 2014: As Emissions Rise, US Coal Steps Up Push For Carbon Capture
Jan 15, 2014: Court: LCRA May Sue Seguin Over Electricity Deal
Jan 15, 2014: Critics Take Aim At Prepaid Electricity Plans
Jan 15, 2014: Hall Opposes EPA War on Coal
Jan 15, 2014: 5 Large Nuclear Power Plant in US
Jan 15, 2014: Electric Power’s Five Biggest Challenges, Part One: Balancing Supply And Demand In The Face Of Complexity
Jan 15, 2014: Sharyland Informs Customers of Last Date to Select REP Prior to Assignment to Default Providers
Jan 15, 2014: Tara Energy Co-Founder Among Upstream Ownership of New Texas Retail Provider
Jan 14, 2014: LCRA Vows Appeal In Lawsuit Loss To Boerne
Jan 14, 2014: SwRI Develops First ERCOT-Qualified Vehicle-to-Grid Aggregation System
Jan 14, 2014: US Power Markets Could Face Choppy Session Ahead Of Returning Cold
Jan 14, 2014: QSE Enters Settlement With Texas Staff Regarding Pricing of RUC-Committed Resources
Jan 13, 2014: Google to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion
Jan 14, 2014: 5 Reasons Nest Sold To Google
Jan 13, 2014: EPA Agenda Suffers Setback As Clean Coal Plant Project Is Derailed
Jan 13, 2014: Rising Coal Use Reverses Three Years Of Co2 Declines
Jan 13, 2014: How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities With Voltage Management
Jan 13, 2014: Getting Rid of Coal Isn’t As Wise As You Think
Jan 13, 2014: Texas Appeals Court Rules on Whether City Can Operate as Retail Electric Provider
Jan 10, 2013: CPS, Saws Explore Pairing Up Plants
Jan 12, 2014: Texas Nuclear Power Plants Seek New Workforce
Jan 10, 2014: Stop The Waste
Jan 13, 2014: NRG Informs Investors of Expected Impairment Charge
Jan 10, 2014: Power Was Plentiful In Cold Snap
Jan 10, 2014: FERC Approves Entergy Texas Acquisition Of Certain Transmission Assets
Renewable Power
Jan 16, 2014: Google Invests In Wind Energy
Jan 16, 2014: Xcel on course for 7GW of wind
Jan 16, 2014: OCI Breaks Ground On Fourth Plant At America’s Largest Municipal Utility CPS Solar Project
Jan 16, 2014: Solar Power Plants’ Appeal Wanes
Jan 16, 2014: Armed Forces See Rise In Renewable Energy
Jan 15, 2014: Mortenson Construction To Open New Office In San Antonio
Jan 15, 2014: Principal Solar Files To Register Distributed Solar Utility With SEC
Jan 15, 2014: OCI Solar Begins Construction On 39 Mw Solar Farm In Texas
Jan 15, 2014: Federal Wind Power Subsidies Expire, but Lobbyists Aren’t Giving Up
Jan 15, 2014: Google “Gets It” On Wind Power; Clean Energy, The Smart Investment; And Wind-Powered Beer
Jan 14, 2014: PSI Seeks To Build A Distributed Solar Utility Deep In The Heart Of Texas
Jan 14, 2014: Google Invests $75M in Wind in Texas
Jan 14, 2014: Texas County Approves Two Wind Energy Reinvestment Zones
Jan 14, 2014: CPS Energy, Saws Collaboration Beneficial
Jan 14, 2014: The US Broke Several Solar Power Records in 2013
Jan 14, 2014: Google Glass Is Helping Solar Power Become a Reality
Jan 14, 2014: Solar Stocks Bullish Thanks To Tax Credits
Jan 14, 2014: Conergy Launches $100 Million Solar Fund For US Market
Jan 13, 2014: Micro-Windmills To Power Your Mobile Devices
Jan 13, 2014: Wind Power Helps Preserve Water Resources
Jan 13, 2014: A Day In The Sun: Solar’s Revival Sends Stocks On A Tear
Jan 13, 2014: After A Building Boom, Solar Energy’s Prospects Now Aren’t As Sunny
Jan 13, 2014: Potential NEM Rollbacks Won’t Impact US Solar Markets In 2014
Jan 12, 2014: Regional Effort in Texas Underway To Boost Solar-Friendly Regulations
Jan 10, 2014: Texas County Seeking Windfall From Energy
Jan 10, 2014: EDF Renewable Energy increases investment in wind power in Texas
Jan 10, 2014: Lighthouse Solar Sprints To Finish With Over 5mw Of Solar Installed In One Quarter Across Five States
Jan 10, 2014: We Must Protect Eagles and Expand Wind Power at the Same Time
Jan 10, 2014: Researchers Find Flaws In Wind Power
Jan 9, 2014: Wind Energy Credit Is Successful
Jan 9, 2014: The High Cost of the Solar Middleman
Jan 10, 2014: EIA Seeks Renewable Energy Comments
Other News
Jan 16, 2014: Eric Bradley Named Senior Vice President of Strategy At GDF SUEZ Energy North America
Jan 15, 2014: Reliant Customer Referral Program Rewards Both Current and New Texas Customers
Jan 14, 2014: Ambit Energy Announces Entry for Two New States, Texas Expansion
Jan 12, 2014: Alternative Energy Powered Cars On A Roll At CES
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For the Week of 1/3/14 — 1/10/14
Today’s News Flash by Texas Electric News
Texas Headlines
Energy Future Holdings
Jan 8, 2014: Luminant: Tax Payments Will Be On Time
Generation Adequacy
Jan 9, 2014: Rolling Blackouts Are Texas’ Future Without Reform, Generators Say
Jan 9, 2014: Texas’ System Of Electric Reliability A Success Story
Jan 9, 2014: Texas Power Market Debate Poised To Heat Up After Cold Snap
Jan 9, 2014: State Grid’s Reliance On Wind Generates Some Concern
Jan 9, 2014: Next Texas Resource Adequacy Open Meeting/Workshop Pushed to March
Jan 8, 2014: Role Of Texas Wind Power Debated After Winter Emergency
Jan 8, 2014: Texas Oil Lobby Takes On Electric Power Generation Lobby
Jan 8, 2014: Oil And Gas Industry Says No On Capacity Market Proposal
Jan 8, 2014: As Winter Takes Hold, Plunging Temperatures Test Utilities
Jan 7, 2014: Texas Power Companies Want More $$
Jan 7, 2014: Texas Sets New Winter Electricity Demand Record
Jan 7, 2014: Xcel Energy Seeking Rate Increase For Texas Retail Customers
Jan 7, 2014: Texans Use More Power But Avoid A Repeat Of Monday Crisis
Jan 7, 2014: Saving Energy Saves Millions for The Grand Prairie ISD
Jan 6, 2014: ERCOT: 2011 Lesson Helped Texas Avoid Rolling Blackout
Jan 6, 2014: ERCOT Urges Texans To Conserve Power During Cold Snap 1/6/14
Jan 6, 2014: Texas Grid Ends Power Alert; Extends Conservation Call
Jan 6, 2014: Cold Weather Causes Surge In Demand On Texas’ Electric Grid
Jan 6, 2014: Equipment failures leave thousands in Burleson in the dark; conservation alert in effect
Jan 6, 2014: Capacity-Market Dependent PJM Issues “Third World” Plea for Electric Conservation
Jan 6, 2014: Texas Power Grid Manager Cancels Emergency Alert
Headlines
Jan 9, 2013: Texas Review of POLR/Affiliate Rule Continues Due to Concerns Over Uplift Costs
Jan 9, 2014: Austin Faces Long Odds To Cut Coal Ties, According To Utility
Jan 9, 2014: Austin Energy Bills Are Lower Than Deregulated Competitors
Jan 9, 2014: Cps Energy Customers Merit Better Service
Jan 9, 2014: Texas To Blame For Oklahoma’s Biggest Haze Pollution Problem
Jan 9, 2014: Net-Energy Metering Rollbacks Won’t Impact US Solar Markets
Jan 9, 2013: US Power Plant Emissions Down, Study Finds
Jan 8, 2014: Leading Network-Marketing Retail Supplier Could Soon Enter Texas Market, 2014 Launch Confirmed
Jan 8, 2014: TXU Energy Investments in Lean Training, Projects Pay Off for Customers
Jan 8, 2014: Xcel Energy Seeking Rate Increase To Recoup Improvement Costs, Wholesale Customer Losses
Jan 8, 2014: ANALYSIS: More US nuclear units to refuel in 2014 than 2013
Jan 8, 2014: Obama/EPA Latest Proposal for New Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Emission Control Proposed Rules
Jan 7, 2014: Court Orders Additional Briefs In Fuelberg Appeal
Jan 7, 2014: Saving Energy Saves Millions for The Grand Prairie ISD
Jan 6, 2014: Instead Of Reading Meters, CPS Estimated How Much Energy Was Used
Jan 6, 2014: Fitch: Electric Cooperatives Turn to Capital Markets as Restrictions on Federal Funding Increase
Jan 6, 2014: Retail Energy CEO, Ex-Wal-Mart Exec: “Lot of Room” to Make Energy Choice Shopping Easier for Customers
Jan 6, 2014: Double Threat: US Grid Vulnerable On Two Fronts
Jan 6, 2014: CFTP Op-Ed In The Hill Details Widespread Opposition To FERC Overhaul Of The Nation’s Electric Grid
Dec 25, 2013: Regulation of Carbon Emissions for Existing Power Plants Under the Clean Air Act
Jan 6, 2014: EIA: Biggest Energy Producers Are Also Biggest Users
Jan 5, 2014: Electricity Shock
Jan 5, 2014: Five Years Away, 2014 Is Crunch Time To Secure Lubbock’s Power For 2019, Leaders Say
Renewable Power
Jan 9, 2014: CPS Energy Allows Electricity Contract To Expire
Jan 9, 2014: Wind Providing ‘Massive Quantities’ Of Power During US Cold Snap
Jan 9, 2014: Utilities Want Solar Users To Pay Up
Jan 9, 2014: Wind Energy Companies Prepare For Tax Credit’s End
Jan 9, 2014: Solar Industry Wins Important Regulatory Victory
Jan 9, 2014: Climate Change Battle: Nuclear Vs. An Efficient, Renewable Grid
Jan 8, 2014: EDF Acquires 194-Megawatt Wind-Power Project in Texas From CIELO
Jan 8, 2014: Houston Boosts Energy Efficiency In New Homes
Jan 8, 2014: Wind Energy Helps Ward Off Power Outages
Jan 8, 2014: A Solar Energy System Is Installed In U.S. Every Four Minutes
Jan 7, 2014: Potential Net-Energy Metering Rollbacks Will Not Impact Solar Markets In The US During 2014, Says IHS
Jan 7, 2014: WakaWaka Brings Solar Power to Dark Places
Jan 7, 2014: How Wall Street Suddenly Fell In Love With Solar
Jan 6, 2014: Enbridge to Invest $0.2 Billion in Texas Wind Power Project
Jan 3, 2014: Researchers Find Ways For More Efficient Control Of Wind Power
Jan 6, 2014: Clean Energy Should Do Without Special Tax Breaks
Jan 6, 2014: Mark Ruffalo Wants You To Imagine A 100 Percent Clean Energy Future
Jan 6, 2014: 8 Ways Wind Power Companies Are Trying to Stop Killing Birds and Bats
Jan 6, 2014: Keeping Safe When Working with Wind Power
Jan 6, 2014: Solar Power Craze On Wall St. Propels Startup
Jan 3, 2014: Ways to Minimize Power Grid Disruptions from Wind Power
Jan 3, 2014: US Wind Power Manufacturing Pipeline Fills Up
Jan 3, 2014: New Test Facility To Improve Wind Turbines
Jan 3, 2014: Ten Solar Predictions for 2014
Jan 3, 2014: Net Metering Rollbacks Won’t Hurt US Solar Market This Ear
Jan 9, 2013: TXU Now Offering $50 Monthly Credit to High Usage Customers
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