Winter storm bills still pending in Texas Legislature; regulators await action

Author: Mark Watson

Houston — Texas lawmakers had on May 7 more than 30 bills pending, designed to address the deadly mid-February winter storm that left about 4 million customers without electricity for various periods across four days, and state regulators are awaiting lawmakers’ decisions before advancing eight storm-related projects.

Most of the bills pending in the Texas Legislature can be placed in eight categories: …

Electricity Filings

Public Utility Commission of Texas

Case 52085

PETITION TO REVOKE THE RETAIL ELECTRIC PROVIDER CERTIFICATE OF ILUMINAR ENERGY LLC

… II. BACKGROUND Iluminar is authorized by the Commission to provide retail electric service under REP Certificate No. 10179. On information and belief, on March 8, 2021, the Electric Reliability Council ofTexas, Inc. (ERCOT) provided Iluminar with a notice of material breach for Iluminar’s failures to provide required collateral and timely pay settlement invoices. Between March 30,2021 and April 29, 2021, all Iluminar customers were transferred to JP Energy Resources LLC dba Ampra Energy under REP Certificate No. 10278 to prevent those customers from being involuntarily transferred to a provider of last resort (POLR) service. On May 3,2021, ERCOT revoked all rights of Iluminar as a market participant and terminated its Standard Form Market Participant Agreement (SFA) as a result of Iluminars failures to provide required collateral and pay outstanding settlement invoices. Specifically, as of May 3, 2021, ERCOT asserted that Huminar has failed to timely pay Settlement Invoices totaling $42,440,388.14. …

Case 52086

APPLICATION OF BLACK MOUNTAIN ENERGY STORAGE FOR A POWER GENERATION COMPANY REGISTRATION

Case 52087

APPLICATION OF BP ENERGY RETAIL LLC FOR A RETAIL ELECTRIC PROVIDER CERTIFICATE

Case 52088

APPLICATION FORM FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDIT GENERATORS

Case 52091

APPLICATION OF DG CENTRAL 1, LLC FOR A POWER GENERATION COMPANY REGISTRATION