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Texas Power

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Texas Power, LP
Company typePrivately Owned
IndustryElectric Utilities
Founded2005
Headquarters,
Area served
Texas
Key people
Bart Simmons, CEO
David Chase, GM
Kevin Hermann, CFO
ParentTristar Producer Services, Inc.
Websitewww.texaspoweronline.com

Texas Power is a retail electricity provider (REP) serving all deregulated electricity areas in Texas. They are located in Arlington, Texas. Texas Power bills customers for electric service provided by the power distribution companies.[1]

Texas Power services roughly 20,000 residential electricity customers. Texas Power also serves small, medium and large commercial accounts.

History

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In 2002, Texas deregulated the electricity market and in 2000, Texas Power joined in. They now compete against other energy companies like Glacial Energy, Champion Energy, TXU, Bounce Energy, Reliant Energy, MXenergy, Direct Energy, Stream Energy, First Texas Energy Corporation, Gexa Energy, Cirro Energy. Jon Fearing, of the company's risk management department, played an integral role in the company's growth over the years.

Hurricane Katrina

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When Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005, it hurt several pipelines that helped to supply power to Texas companies. This decrease in supply resulted in a rising price to consumers in the aftermath of the hurricane.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ About Us - Texas Power Electric Company Archived 2008-04-17 at the Wayback Machine. Texas Power. Retrieved on 2008-07-05.
  2. ^ Alipour, Panteha; Mukherjee, Sayanti; Nateghi, Roshanak (October 2019). "Assessing climate sensitivity of peak electricity load for resilient power systems planning and operation: A study applied to the Texas region". Energy. 185: 1143–1153. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.07.074. S2CID 199086614.
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