by OCSC | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog
Responding to requests from regulators, Texas electric and gas utilities have begun filing paperwork showing how they’ll pass along savings from millions of dollars in new tax cuts. The Texas Public Utility Commission and the Texas Railroad Commission both called for...
by OCSC | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
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...
by OCSC | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog
Gas and electric ratepayers in Texas could see their utility bills go down — or at least not increase as much as they might have otherwise — as a result of tax legislation recently adopted by the U.S. Congress. Leaders at both the Texas Public Utility Commission and...
by OCSC | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
In a big win for cities, the Texas Supreme Court this month has ruled that utilities must bear the cost of relocating utility equipment from public alleys when required to do so for municipal work projects. Municipal groups and the state’s largest electric utility had...
by OCSC | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog
ERCOT is an island unto itself — that is, unless the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission takes over. And that at least remote possibility has captured the attention of the state’s top utility regulator. “I’m very, very concerned about it,” said Public Utility...
