by OCSC | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Rates
The experience for commercial customers under the Texas electric deregulation law has been different from the experience for residential customers. Individual Texas residential consumers buying electricity from competitive power providers historically have paid...
by OCSC | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog, Generation
The proposal has drawn opposition from groups all across the political spectrum — in great part because of its staggering price tag, according to reports. Texas regulators have delayed consideration of a potentially expensive change to the state’s wholesale...
by OCSC | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog
Citing potentially misleading electricity offers on powertochoose.org, the state’s top energy regulator called Thursday for a new examination of the government-sponsored website and possible reforms. Powertochoose.org is a state-sponsored electricity shopping website...
by OCSC | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
Utility-scale energy storage — that is, those big battery arrays that can serve entire neighborhoods — hold great promise both for energy conservation and grid reliability. But the quickly advancing technology also raises tough regulatory challenges, especially for...
by OCSC | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog
It’s called the Operating Demand Reserve Curve — ORDC for short. You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of it. But the ORDC — which is a component of the state’s wholesale power system — made news this month … and in a way that could impact power costs. The Texas...
