The Texas Public Utility of Commission (PUCT) open meeting last week was the last for Commissioner Brandy Marty Marquez, who spoke to RTO Insider about her five years of service.

The Texas PUC (PUCT) conditionally approved Vistra Energy’s $1.7 billion acquisition of Dynegy, allowing the combined company to avert a requirement that it divest generation.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Monday approved the choice of John Paul Urban as its executive director during a special open meeting.

Texas Public Utility Commissioner Brandy Marquez on Thursday quietly resigned, effective April 2. The announcement followed the PUCT open meeting

The PUCT hinted it may be near a decision on Lubbock Power & Light’s proposal to move 470 MW of its load from SPP to ERCOT.

The Texas PUC postponed until March a decision on whether to remove reliability unit commitments from ERCOT’s operating reserve demand curve.

The PUCT canceled a hearing on the merits of the proposed acquisition of Oncor by Sempra Energy and directed staff to prepare a proposed order in the proceeding.

The staff of the Texas PUC recommended that it require Vistra Energy and Dynegy to divest at least 1,281 MW of generation to secure approval of their merger.

Lubbock Power & Light told Texas regulators that it continues to hammer out settlement agreements in the utility’s proposed migration from SPP to ERCOT.

Sempra Energy and Oncor said they have added three more parties to a settlement agreement covering Sempra’s proposed $9.45 billion acquisition of Energy Future Holdings.