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September  30, 2011
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PUCT Suspends Clearview Electric REP Certificate

The PUCT adopted an order suspending Clearview Electric's REP certificate, with the suspension including a deadline of December 31, 2012. Under the suspension, Clearview can post a $30,000 letter of credit rather than meeting the financial requirements in the Substantive Rules, and may continue to serve its existing ERCOT customer base of about 28 customers. Clearview may not acquire any new customers in ERCOT during the suspension. Clearview must come into compliance with the financial requirements in the Substantive Rules by December 31, 2012, or the certificate will be revoked.

PUCT Defers Action on AMS/Discretionary Service Operational Timeline Proposal

The PUCT deferred until the next open meeting action on a proposal for adoption concerning revised operational timelines due to the implementation of advanced meters, which are meant to facilitate same-day switching and also include revised timelines for discretionary service completion. The proposal for adoption was first reported in Matters (9/23). Commissioner Kenneth Anderson requested the deferral to ensure consistency between the rule and the standard form tariff for delivery service, after several requirements and timelines were, to avoid duplication, removed from the rule and placed solely into the tariff. Anderson said that the deferral will not examine broader questions, such as whether a priority Move-In discretionary service is appropriate for customers with advanced meters, despite Anderson's own doubts about the need for such a service.

PUCT Further Defers Consideration of Prepaid Disclosure Statement

The PUCT deferred consideration of the standard form Prepaid Disclosure Statement, as Chair Donna Nelson and Commissioner Kenneth Anderson still disagree on whether TDU discretionary service fees should be listed on the residential form. The deferral will allow Nelson and Anderson to further consider their positions and for new Commissioner Rolando Pablos, whose first open meeting was yesterday, to study the issue (Background on the PDS).

PUCT Expects Decision on Non-Spin Pricing at Oct. 27 Meeting

The PUCT expects to adjudicate issues relating to ERCOT Non-Spin pricing and design at the October 27 open meeting, and directed parties to file responses to a list of questions to be issued by the Commission. The major issue to be addressed by the Commission is adoption of one of two alternatives to revising the current Non-Spin design, either the Lower Colorado River Authority "compromise" proposal, or the so-called Morgan Stanley proposal. The main difference between the two proposals is the level of the offer floor, which, in turn, results from different views of when scarcity conditions begin (see 9/1 for background, including links to detailed discussion of each proposal)

 

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