Electricity Filings

… 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. …