Austin Energy Customers Facing Rate Hike Due To Plant Outages, Lack Of Wind During ERCOT Scarcity
Austin Energy customers are facing a rate hike due to the municipal utility having to rely on market purchases during peak ERCOT prices earlier this m...
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Chicago Mayor "Studying" Municipal Takeover of ComEd, After Push From 22 Alderman; Progressive Rates
WGN reports that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has said her office is studying the idea of municipalizing Commonwealth Edison's electric system in the ...
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Rate Hike Looms For Texas Municipal Electric Utility
The Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle reports that while the City of Denton City Council postponed action on a rate hike for its municipal electric...
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Texas Muni Rejects Renewable Energy Bids
The city council of Denton, Texas, rejected a recent round of bids for renewable energy for municipal utility Denton Municipal Electric, the Denton Re...
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Texas Cooperatives Select Provider For 7 MW Of Distribution-Scale Solar Energy
Five electric distribution cooperatives in Texas have signed agreements to purchase 7 megawatts (MW-dc) of distribution-scale solar generation
All of...
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Statesman: Austin Energy Customers Still Deserve Answers On Biomass Plant
The Austin American-Statesman published an editorial concerning Austin Energy's previously reported agreement to acquire a biomass power plant with wh...
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Austin Energy Buys Biomass Power Plant With Which It Has Above-Market PPA
Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the Nacogdoc...
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Texas Pol Overseeing Texas Muni Blames ERCOT For Above-Market Power Contract
According to Community Impact Georgetown, Georgetown District 7 City Councilor Tommy Gonzalez said that the entity which is accountable for the abov...
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Muni Austin Energy Ponders How To Best Address Above-Market Contract As Plant Goes Up For Sale
The Austin American-Statesman reports that a biomass plant which currently has an above-market contract to supply power to Austin Energy is up for sal...
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Report: Texas City Leaders Face Wrath of Residents Over Green Energy Deal
U.S. News & World report published a story on previously reported customer anger at the municipal utility of Georgetown, Texas, due to the muni's deci...
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Customers Of Nevada Co-op Seeking To Oust Leadership Due To High Rates, Alleged Embezzlement
A growing number of customers of the Valley Electric Association in Nevada are seeking to oust the co-op's leadership due to increased rates, high sal...
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Another Texas Bill Would Allow Customers To Petition PUC To Set Muni Utility Rates
Bill H.B. No. 2829 has been introduced into the Texas legislature to allow certain customers at certain municipal utilities to petition Texas PUC to...
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Texas Bills Address Austin Energy Rate Setting, Wholesale Activities
Bill SB 1100 has been introduced to the Texas legislature to allow certain customers at Austin Energy to appeal to petition Texas PUC to review their...
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Texas Muni Facing "Revolt" Over Power Costs
In a story on the previously reported challenges facing the municipal electric utility of Georgetown, Texas, the Austin American-Statesman describes a...
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Claim: Newspaper Says Mayor Of City With Muni Utility Threatened Editor Over Coverage Of Rising Cost
The Texas Monitor reports on claims that the Mayor of Georgetown, Texas, allegedly told a reporter from the Wilco Sun he would take actions that woul...
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