BLOG: Multi-Billion-Dollar Oncor Sale to Sempra Almost Complete

Oncor, the state’s largest transmission and distribution utility, is now just a hair’s breadth away from having new owners. On Monday a federal Bankruptcy Court in Delaware delivered its final OK to a multi-billion-dollar offer from California-based Sempra. It’s now...

BLOG: What’s Next for Oncor Sale? (Updated)

From Hunt to NextEra to Berkshire Hathaway to Elliott Management and now, finally, to Sempra Energy. That’s been the line-up of successive suitors – both potential and real — for Oncor Electric, the Dallas-based electric utility with 10 million Texas customers. The...

BLOG: Oncor Purchase Collapsing. Here’s Why.

An out-of-state company’s $18 billion bid to buy the largest electric utility in Texas could be considered again by state regulators on Thursday. But the Texas Public Utility Commission already has signaled its opposition once — and given current realities, don’t...