North Central Texas Green Energy

The Big Three in North Central Texas Electricity
Renewable and Alternative Energies for Green Homes and Businesses

DFW Home    Radio Archives   News/Events   Energy Audit   Green Building   Green Economics   Green Remodel
     Consult    Renewable Energy   Solar Electricity   Solar Hot Water   Solar Pool Heating   Rainwater   Wind  
DFW Green Building e-Letter   DFW Renewable Energy e-Letter   DFW Sustainable Living e-Letter

News of Renewable & Alternative Energy
972 251-1532
817 443-2553

Join our email list here.

Join our email list here

Renewable Energy 
& Green Services
Consulting  
Economics of Green  
Energy Audits 
Green Building 
Green Remodeling 
Rainwater Harvesting 
Renewable Energy   
Solar Electric 
Solar Hot Water 
Wind Energy 
Glossary 

 

What about the companies Oncor Electric Delivery, Luminant, and TXU Energy?

They are a triangle: All in the electricity business of Texas, all formerly one company, Now separated as:

  • Luminant which operates power plants
  • TXU Energy is a retailer (Retail Electric Provider or REP) which sells electricity directly to consumers (you) as do other REPs such as Reliant or Green Mountain Energy. TU Electric, TXU Corp., TXU Electric, and TXU Electric Delivery are names that are not longer in use by any company.
  • Oncor Electric Delivery which is an electric distribution and transmission business.

Luminant and TXU Energy are not regulated by the state. Oncor Electric Delivery is regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Oncor Electric Delivery, through its many customers (companies that sell electricity to you such as Reiiant and Green Mountain) has about 3,000,000 commercial and residential users in Texas. Approximately 2,000,000 of these are residential.  

Oncor is legally an affiliate of TXU Energy as both are owned by Energy Future Holdings Corp. 

Luminant is attempting to build another nuclear plant in Texas at a price of $22,000,000,000. That is the projected price and it will probably be many times that because of overruns. Overruns or not, a 22 billion dollar price tag on this nuclear plant will guarantee that Texas residents have a tremendous, and probably unprecedented, increase in electricity rates.

Texas already has some of the highest electricity rates in the United States. These rates are tied to the higher price of natural gas although much of the electricity is actually produced by coal-fired plants that are relatively cheap to operate.

Deregulation  
Back to Texas Energy Directory
Back to Electricity Directory

For further information about Renewable Energy or this area of Texas contact

Terry Jensen
972 251-1532 or 817 443-2553
Email

Do you need an energy consultant, energy auditor, 
green builder, or green remodeler
 in North Central Texas 
or the Dallas-Fort Worth area? 
Are you purchasing or building a home?
Ready to add renewable energy?
Interested in living more sustainably?
Contact Terry Jensen 
Frugal Energy, LLC
 972 251-1532 or 817 443-2553
Just have a question or two?
Please call. If I can answer without
seeing your home or business, 
I will do so at no charge.

 

Join our email list here.

Green  & 
Renewable Energy
972 251-1532 or 
817 433-2553

Subscribe to free Dallas-Fort Worth Renewable Energy e-newsletter

Sent periodically with home remodeling news and information. 
Also includes calendar of green events and classes.

Home   Contact   Consult  

Copyright © 2008-2011 DFW Green Building and Renewable Energy. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission which is not universally given. Please contact DFW Green Building and Renewable Energy for permission in writing before using these copyrighted materials

Note: The opinions expressed herein are exclusively those of the writers or other participants and do not necessarily reflect the position of CyberParent. They are not intended to take the place of advice of a health, legal, or other professional whose expertise you might need to seek.