Statesman Reports on Muni Austin Energy Customer Subject To Disconnection, Facing $2,700 Bill
The Austin American-Statesman reports on a family who has been subject to disconnection by Austin Energy for unpaid electricity bills totaling some $2...
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Customers At Texas Muni Fed Up With High Rates, Petition for "Competitive" Prices
A customer at the City of Bowie, Texas's municipal electric utility has launched a petition calling for "competitive" rates, as the cust...
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Denton Approves Development of Gas-Fired Power Plant
Denton's city council has given further approvals, related to procurement and various construction services, for development of a 225 MW gas-fired...
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Muni Austin Energy May Have Charged Inapplicable Tax For Decade; Only Giving Refunds For 4 Years
KXAN reports that Austin Energy's previously reported incorrect application of a tax for certain residents of Williamson County, from whom the municip...
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Muni Austin Energy Has Incorrectly Charged Tax To Non-City Ratepayers For Four Years
Austin Energy, for four years, has erroneously imposed a metro sales tax on about 6,000 residential ratepayers in an unincorporated part of Williamson...
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#NotOnlyREPs: Austin Energy Rate Settlement Criticized For Penalizing Customers For Conserving Power
A rate settlement at muni Austin Energy is being criticized by some stakeholders for changes in its tiered rate structure under which rates paid by al...
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Customers At Texas Muni Launch Petition to Implement Retail Choice
Over 550 residents of Cuero, Texas have signed a petition for the City Of Cuero to implement retail electric choice at its municipal utility within ER...
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Texas Muni To Develop Natural Gas-Fired Plant
The Denton City Council approved a plan, and financing, to develop a natural gas-fired power plant
See the Denton Record-Chronicle for the story...
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Paper Calls For Greater Transparency in Nebraska Public Power Rates, Marketer Pushes Retail Choice
An editorial in the Lincoln, Nebraska Journal Star criticizes the state's public power entities for a lack of transparency on their cost of power supp...
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Report: Austin Energy Customers Would Save $200 Million Through Electric Choice
TexasInsider.org reports that, citing pleadings in an Austin Energy rate case, "[i]f there was competitive choice in Austin, retail ratepayers would p...
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Report: Texas Muni’s Alternative Rate Pilots Fail To Attract Customers
The Austin Monitor reports that pilots launched by Austin Energy allowing customers to take Time of Use rates and take special EV rates have not attra...
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Customers At Texas Muni Utility Question High Supply Charges Given Low Fuel Prices
Customers at Texas municipal utility Floresville Electric Light & Power System have raised concerns regarding supply cost price hikes at the ...
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Texas Muni CPS Energy Writes Off $391.4 million from South Texas Project Nuclear Expansion
The San Antonio Express-News reports that CPS Energy, "has written off $391.4 million in costs associated with its partnership of the unbuilt — and hi...
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Lawsuit Alleges Power Cutoff By Texas Co-op Was Fatal To Man On Oxygen
The Houston Chronicle reports on a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Sam Houston Electric Cooperative in which the complainant alleges that the co-...
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