Guest Post - from Public Citizen Texas A rate case is fundamentally about determining how much money an electric utility needs to collect from ratepayers to pay for expenses (and make some return on investment), how those expenses will be divided among the different customer classes...
Sponsored Post - from NATiVE NATiVE is a proud member of CleanTX, an economic development and professional association that is accelerating the growth of the cleantech industry in Texas through information exchange, thought leadership, and strategic partnerships. Founded in 2006, this is the nonprofit economic development and professional...
Guest Post - from Al Braden Al Braden is a longtime climate activist and energy policy wonk located here in Austin. In recent posts, he's taken readers behind the scenes into the negotiations behind the future of energy generation in Austin. At stake is a big...
Austin continues to be a leader in the adoption of renewable energy with the help of a new $4.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. This week the city's electric utility, Austin Energy, announced that it had won the award, which will enable it to,...
Sponsored Post - from Teresa Lopez of Green Energy Money To better understand how a green, high-performance loan should work, we should first review how conventional mortgages and interest is calculated. It’s important to note that all green projects, whether a new construction project or retrofitting an existing...
Guest Post - from Paul Robbins The Texas (Lone Star Chapter) of the Sierra Club has recently made a proposal to the Austin City Council to increase low-income weatherization by $1.5 million in next year’s budget for Austin Energy. The proposal claims to restore funding for...
Guest Post - from Cyrus Reed and Dave Cortez of the Sierra Club In a city as expensive and economically segregated as Austin, an increase or decrease in your utility bill can make all the difference. It can force choices between medicine and groceries versus paying...
Austin has an opportunity to contract for the cheapest solar power ever after receiving solar proposals with prices as low as 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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Are you interested in how the Encyclical recently published by the Pope related to Austin? To the US? To you? ...