TX PUC's Marquez: Energy Market Changes Working In "Immediate" Term, Continued Review Needed
Changes made to the ERCOT energy-only market -- increasing the offer cap and implementing the Operating Reserves Demand Curve -- are working in the "i...
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Report Reveals Investors’ Statements on Market Design Preferences Can’t Be Trusted; Follow The Money
A report prepared for the ISO/RTO Council on investors' decisions reveals that, while investors continually harp for "market" designs contrived to boo...
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Texas State Affairs Chair "Fully Supportive" of Energy-Only Market
Texas Rep. Byron Cook, Chair of the House State Affairs Committee, said during a hearing yesterday on HB 962, a bill which would prohibit introduction...
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NRG's Crane: "Texas Will Never Be In a Multi-Year Scarcity of Generation"
"Texas will never be in a multi-year scarcity of generation situation because you can build quickly there," NRG Energy CEO David Crane said today on a...
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NRG Begins Construction on New Peaking Plant Near Houston
NRG Energy, Inc. today announced that construction has begun on an approximately 360 megawatt, natural gas-fired peaking plant at a site near Bacliff,...
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FERC Staff Issues Reports on Scarcity Pricing, Mitigation
Ahead of a technical conference, FERC Staff have issued reports on scarcity pricing and energy market offer mitigation in the FERC-jurisdictional orga...
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Anderson Posts New Presentation on Operational Reliability, Success of Texas Market-Based System
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson has posted on the PUCT's website a new presentation concerning operational reliability, and its imp...
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FGE Power, Starwood Energy Group To Finance And Build 1,500 MW Power Plant in ERCOT
FGE Power, LLC announced that it has agreed to strategically partner with an affiliate of Starwood Energy Group Global LLC to finance and build two id...
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Developer Announces Investment to Complete New Generation in ERCOT
NTE Energy announced that it has secured an investment for three natural gas-fired power plants that are currently under development which will allow ...
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Reuters: Navasota Energy to Build Three New Power Plants in Texas
Further evidence of the success of Texas' energy-only market, Reuters reports that, "Navasota Energy is seeking to build three 543-megawatt, natural g...
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