AEP beat Wall Street’s expectations with a positive yearend earnings report, but CEO Nick Akins spent much of a conference call with analysts focused on its Oklahoma subsidiary.

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.

Texas regulators concluded two days of hearings on Lubbock Power & Light’s proposal to move 70% of its load from SPP to ERCOT.

FERC denied the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) request for clarification on one matter related to a sprawling Entergy-related case.

Another wave of arctic cold in the South has ERCOT and SPP revising their winter peak records.

With an Arctic cold front rolling through the southern part of its footprint Tuesday morning, SPP set a new winter demand peak of 42.71 GW. The previous mark of 41.01 GW — set Jan. 2 — lasted only two weeks.

The Texas Public Utility Commission took its first steps in determining how to share federal corporate tax cuts with ratepayers.

The PUC of Texas (PUCT) agreed to “marinate” on an administrative law judge’s order approving AEP Texas’ request to connect a pair of energy storage batteries to ERCOT.

The executive director of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), Brian Lloyd, has told staff he intends to resign March 1.