Uvalde County signs three-year Public Power Pool agreement; commodity locked at 5.88¢/kWh
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After a presentation from Public Power Pool, commissioners approved joining or continuing under a P3 procurement that locks Uvalde County's commodity electricity rate at 5.88¢ per kilowatt-hour for 2026–2028 and noted an added aggregation fee; staff offered account-level analysis for demand charges regulated by the PUC.
David Quinn, program manager for Public Power Pool (P3), presented the group's recent procurement and savings analysis to the Uvalde County Commissioners Court and described the terms the cooperative negotiated for its members.
Quinn said the P3 purchasing group manages nearly 2 million MWh of combined load and has produced cumulative group savings the presentation listed as about $210,400,000 since the program began. He told commissioners Uvalde County’s calculated savings since joining P3 in 2020 are roughly $358,000.
On the most recent procurement, the group solicited bids from registered retail electric providers and ultimately received executable pricing. The lowest group-wide executable price was 6.04¢ per kilowatt-hour, Quinn said, and Uvalde County specifically was locked in at a commodity cost of 5.88¢/kWh for a three-year term covering 2026–2028. Quinn noted some charges (distribution and demand charges from the TDSP) are regulated by the Public Utility Commission and are not negotiated by P3; he offered to run account-level analyses to identify opportunities to reduce demand charges.
Quinn described P3’s fees and support: an aggregation fee that is disclosed in the detailed report (P3 listed an aggregation fee and an annual service cost of about $3,800 to the county) and a listed aggregation charge of roughly $0.99 per MWh compared to broker fees that could be higher. He said P3 provides budgeting reports, annual audits and bill checks, and contract support for members.
Commissioners asked about demand charges and whether P3 can negotiate distribution fees; Quinn said distribution/TDSP charges are regulated by the PUC and are outside P3’s negotiating authority but P3 can look for account-level approaches to reduce costs.
After the presentation the court recorded a motion and second and then approved the P3 procurement terms by voice vote; the clerk stated the commodity price and noted aggregation costs are detailed in the full report. The transcript records the vote as 'aye' with the motion carrying.