A rare extreme winter hit Texas this week.  It made ERCOT scramble for power but ended up with a massive and prolonged rolling blackouts.  Over 30,000 MW of both renewables and thermal power plants were off-line causing businesses and households to be out of electricity, approximately 16,500 MW.   The Gas Delivery Emergency Order to ensure […]

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), while not new, has started receiving attention only recently. Since the late 1990s and early 2000, some states have enacted legislation involving CCA as part of their electricity industry restructuring and retail choice. [1] In the past two years, CCA programs have grown considerably in several states to increase customers’ choices […]