Texas Competitive Power Advocates
Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA) is a trade association representing more than a dozen power generators, wholesale power marketers and retail electric providers with business in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) wholesale and retail electricity markets
TCPA's mission is to support and promote competitive wholesale and retail markets that ensure abundant, reliable and affordable electricity is available to Texas consumers.
TCPA In The News
Competition and fuel prices push Texas electric prices lower still - May 18, 2009
Electric prices continue to fall as competitive providers work to win business and the price of natural gas - which fuels the majority of electric generation in Texas - continues to fall.
DownloadBalancing Transparency and Consumer Protection - May 13, 2009
Texas/ERCOT has one of the strongest bid disclosure requirements of any competitive regional transmission organization in the nation. The current three-step bid disclosure arms regulators with current data without undermining competition.
DownloadAuthor of AARP Electric Report Discredited by New York and Illinois Officials as "Unreliable" - May 5, 2009
As Texas electric prices fall and the competitive electric market achieves customer savings and cleaner air, AARP has stooped to using discredited activists and scare tactics in their bid to increase government command and control of electricity in Texas.
DownloadElectricity Prices Remain Below or Near 2001 Pre-Competition Prices, Despite Double-Digit Inflation and Gas Price Hikes - Feb. 24, 2009
As some Texas lawmakers seek to follow Washington's big-government, big regulation lead with legislation undermining consumer choice and clean power investments in Texas, consumers in many parts of our state are enjoying competitive electric prices near or below 2001 levels.
DownloadElectric prices fall below or near 2001 levels - Feb. 24, 2009
The competitive electric market has provided competitive prices compared to regulated rates, even after 20% inflation and +100% fuel price increases.
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