Posts tagged: Texas

Energy Consumer can save Bill using Modern Meter

Some time something looking very scaring but they are trying to help to you. Same thing happened with me a huge man trying to jump over my gate with special steps designed for jumping railing. Ultimately the man was not there to kill us or rob to us. He was doing his occupation for a [...]

Sunday June 6th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

In Focus: Electric Deregulation in Texas

Deregulation of electricity in Texas resulted in much discussion and debate in the government and in media. The sad thing about this is that it is the consumers, the end-users of electricity who do not have much knowledge about the topic. They think meddling with the idea is taking too much of their time, time [...]

Monday May 3rd, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Who’s Who in the Texas Electricity Market

The following subjects will be addressed and clarified to help all Texans better understand the nature of the Texas electricity market:
* The Public Utility Commission of Texas and it’s role in protecting your electricity rights, in addition to specific responsibilities and regulations therein.
* The role of the Retail Electric Provider (REP).
* Transmission and distribution of [...]

Tuesday January 19th, 2010 in , , | 2 Comments »

Texas’ retail electric rates significantly higher than neighboring states’

Critics of Texas’ deregulated electricity market often raise this question: Why are the state’s retail electric rates so much higher than those in neighboring Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico, which all rely on traditional rate regulation by public commissions?
The primary reason for Texas’ higher rates “is deregulation,” insists Tom “Smitty” Smith, Texas director of [...]

Sunday December 13th, 2009 in , , | 1 Comment »

Electric Deregulation in Texas

It’s a known fact that when electric companies (or any company, for that matter) get the chance to establish a monopoly such that consumers have no competition to choose from, the companies themselves hold all the cards and the unfortunate consumers are left to take what they can get, at whatever price the company deems [...]

Tuesday December 8th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »

Energy aggregator Tremcor pushes to pool Texas retail users who want better rates

 
Roy Anderson thinks he has a way to make deregulation so sweet for consumers that everybody in the country will want an electricity market just like the one in Texas.
Anderson, who grew up in Zambia and spent much of his professional career in Canada, runs a company called Tremcor Energy Inc. that’s known as an [...]

Tuesday November 10th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »

Lack of infrastructure stalls renewable energy

By Jim Pagels
Daily Texan Staff

Paul Wentzell/The Daily Texan
Texas leads the country in its use of wind energy; future growth of the state’s population will require further development of wind energy.

Wind farms in West Texas make the state a leader in renewable power generation, but a lack of infrastructure leaves much of their potential [...]

Wednesday October 28th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »

Deregulation Produces Lower Business Electric Costs

 
Before you can truly understand the deregulation issues in Texas, its important know that the state is ranked 11th in the world when it comes to its consumption. There has always been a debate between state politicians as to what the best approach would be to the rising energy costs. The only thing they could [...]

Wednesday October 14th, 2009 in , , | No Comments »