"Texas electricity: competition driving innovation"

T.J. Ermoian, Jr.

President, Texas Energy Aggregation, LLC.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, Time & Room TBA, Rogers Bldg.

Abstract:

Texas’ electricity deregulation in 2002 converted a government-regulated monopoly into a market-based, competitive industry. Examine the unprecedented impact upon business, alternative energy, and Texas’ economy from the perspective of a local entrepreneur. By recognizing a need in the marketplace and meeting it, Waco-based Texas Energy Aggregation has grown from an idea to managing over $100 billion in energy contracts. Energy is rapidly becoming the currency of the future, and those pioneering this paradigm shift will preside over the greatest industrial growth of the next decade.

Biographical Information:  

TJ Ermoian, Jr. (Er-MOY-in) is owner and President of the Waco-based energy consulting firm Texas Energy Aggregation, LLC. He is an electricity aggregator licensed through the Public Utility Commission of Texas, serving businesses, governments, schools and non-profits. He is a board member of the Texas Energy Professionals Association, and speaks and writes on electricity deregulation issues.

Mr. Ermoian is also a published writer, performing songwriter, and co-producer of a nationally-syndicated PBS TV program. He and his wife Sandy have 5 children, and recently started a river ranch introducing at-risk youth to the outdoors.