Austin Energy transferring more every year into city’s general fund
January 28, 2012 By Marty Toohey AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Even as Austin Energy’s budget has eroded, the city government has shifted increasingly large chunks of the utility’s earnings to fund other...
View ArticleIndependent board to oversee Austin Energy
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 By Marty Toohey Austin American-Statesman The Austin City Council voted late Thursday to create an independent board of public-power experts to oversee Austin Energy, putting a...
View ArticleGetting facts about Austin Energy before making changes is good move for Council
March 20, 2013 By Editorial Board Special to the American-Statesman The Austin City Council finally seems interested in getting the facts about how Austin Energy stacks up to other municipally-owned...
View ArticleHadden: Don’t rush toward unaccountable utility board
March 24, 2013 By Karen Hadden, Electric Utility Commission Austin American-Statesman Changing the way Austin Energy is governed and handing control of our public utility over to an unelected board...
View ArticleAustin City Council should bring forth facts for changing Austin Energy’s...
March 5, 2013 By Editorial Board Austin American Statesman In settling an appeal of Austin Energy’s recent rate increase that will give most of the 50,000 Austin Energy customers outside the city a...
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NRG Solar Cuts Ribbon on Alpine Solar Generating Facility
5/3/13 BusinessWire –Event Celebrates Completion of the Largest Operating Photovoltaic Facility in California, providing consumers with cleaner energy choices– CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May. 3,...
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The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy
04 May 13 By Juan Cole, Informed Comment Reader Supported News ob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain,...
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Of Champagne & Parallel Universes
May 7, 2013 Architecture 2030 Building Sector energy consumption and projections are trending downward dramatically. According to the recently released U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA)...
View ArticleRenewable Energy up in ERCOT Market – New records being set.
May 20, 2013 Austin Energy Report Renewable energy up in ERCOT – Electricity generated throughout ERCOT from renewable energy resources was up 7 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. In all, of the 324.9...
View ArticlePipeline ruling strengthens private property rights
Thursday, May 23, 2013 By Tim Eaton, Staff Austin American-Statesman A company seeking to run a pipeline across East Texas instead crossed the wrong Texan, and now a state appeals court ruling in the...
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This Land Is My Land
June 03, 2013 Produced by: Rachel McCarthy Dick Gordon TheStory – American Public Media Listen to the audio story on American Public Media Except when it isn’t. We check back in with Julia Trigg...
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A Raw Deal from TransCanada and the Texas Railroad Commission
Wednesday 26 June 2013 Jim Hightower OpEd Nation of Change Texans like Julia Trigg Crawford are rebelling against a toxic combo of ignorance and arrogance. A Raw Deal from TransCanada and the Texas...
View ArticleGeorgia utility regulators back unprecedented solar expansion
July 13, 2013 By Greg Bluestein and Kristi E. Swartz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution State utility regulators voted 3-2 to force Georgia Power to amp up the solar energy it generates, a move that...
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How Climate Change is Fueling a Rise in Deadly Diseases
18 July 2013 Sy Mukherjee NationofChange In the summer of 2012, the mosquito-borne West Nile virus made a surprising comeback in America. In Dallas, the most affected region, 400 people contracted the...
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EDF Renewable Energy buys 500 MW Texas wind farm
Jul 22, 2013 By Editors of Electric Light & Power/POWERGRID International Power Engineering EDF Renewable Energy entered into a membership interest purchase agreement with Lincoln Renewable Energy...
View ArticleWith Central Texas water near all-time lows, LCRA under fire
July 20, 2013 By Marty Toohey – Staff Austin American-Statesman There used to be a lake here. Most of the time, before the drought set in, gently rolling waters would be flowing beneath Doug Scott’s...
View ArticleInnovation progresses on energy efficiency
Sunday, 25 August 2013 By CASEY MURPHY Tyler Morning Telegraph Karen Hadden believes there is progress to be made in energy efficiency. Ms. Hadden, executive director of Austin-based Sustainable Energy...
View ArticleCPS Energy proposes rate hike for 2014; local coalition opposes change
September 9, 2013 James Munoz KENS5.Com – San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — CPS Energy is proposing a 4.75 percent rate increase at the end of 2013. The change would go into effect on February 1, 2014. For the...
View ArticleFew protest CPS rate increase
September 10, 2013 BY NOLAN HICKS San Antonio Express-News A small but vocal crowd turned out Monday evening to give CPS Energy executives an earful about the utility’s proposed rate increase, claiming...
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CPS hosts input session about proposed rate hike
CPS hosts input session about proposed rate hike September 9, 2013 Lauren Lea News 4 San Antonio SAN ANTONIO- Every time you flip the light switch, it could cost you a little extra in the future, if a...
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