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Texans’ Enthusiasm About Smart Meters Wanes
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of the Texas Tribune. Author credit goes to Kate Galbraith. Seven years after legislators passed a law encouraging the use of...
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Record Wind Output Lights Up Texas On Christmas
Wind power kept a lot of lights burning bright in Texas on Christmas Day. The state set a new record for wind energy production that day, besting its previous record, set in November, which beat the...
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Texas Wind And Solar Power Hold Own Against Natural Gas
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Environmental Defense Fund. Author credit goes to Colin Meehan. An interesting fact seemed to go unnoticed in all the press...
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Wind Energy Records Fall in Wash., Texas, Colorado
Exactly 16,593 megawatt-hours, that’s how much electricity flowed from three Puget Sound Energy wind farms in Eastern Washington from midnight Monday to midnight Tuesday to the company’s 1.1 million...
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Clean Energy In Texas Faces A Tough Legislative Crowd
During his State of the Union address earlier in February, President Obama doubled down on his vision for renewable energy, calling for more wind and solar power. In Texas, the Legislature is less...
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Texas Has Awesome Renewables Potential, But Will It Meet It?
Texas leads the U.S. in wind power and could become a large solar market in the coming years. The state could generate up to 35 gigawatts of electricity from renewables, according to Clean Energy...
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LEED-Platinum Bush Library Campus Opens May 1
In a move that will surely send irony meters off the charts in the nation’s “blue states,” the recently dedicated George W. Bush Presidential Center will open on May 1 with a LEED-Platinum...
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Former San Antonio Brewery Finds New Mixed-Use Life
In San Antonio, Texas, buildings along the city’s famed pedestrian riverfront tend not to stay vacant for very long — even abandoned old industrial spaces eventually get the renovation-for-mixed-use...
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Texas Denies Tesla Motors Direct EV Sales
A two-month effort to pass bills in the Texas legislature that would allow Tesla Motors to sell electric cars directly to consumers has failed after lawmakers failed to vote on the issue before...
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High Speed Train Idea Debated In Texas
It’s been just over a year since a Japanese-backed firm announced plans to build a 205 mph bullet train between Houston and North Texas, and elected officials and advocates are anxiously waiting for...
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Texas Center Eyes Building A Better Wind Farm
On the wind-swept plain of the Texas panhandle, government, academic and industry researchers are now taking on the challenge of making wind power better, with a particular focus on the hugely...
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Xcel Chooses Wind Power As Money Saver
Xcel Energy’s Southwestern Public Service Company is looking to buy nearly 700 megawatts of wind power in the U.S. Southwest, no doubt pursuing some silly green-eyed vision of a clean energy future...
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In Texas, Big Wind Jumps On New Transmission
There are plenty of things not to like about new energy transmission. Massive steel towers and crackling high-voltage cables slicing past towns and through farmland and wilderness – who needs the...
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El Paso Charges Up With Network Of New EV Chargers
The city of El Paso, Texas has become one of the latest to bring a network of electric vehicle chargers online. The chargers fall under the Blink brand, meaning they’ve been designed by troubled...
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Capital Of Texas Ranks High In Energy Efficiency
Texas policymakers searching for ways to curb energy use across their rapidly growing state might want to examine efforts in their capital city. Austin is among large U.S. cities doing the most to...
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Texas Panhandle Wind Bursting At The Seams
Texas is nearing completion of a big transmission expansion that will help send wind energy produced in the Panhandle to the state’s big population centers, but there are now suggestions that the...
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Microsoft Takes Texas Wind Power Plunge
How important can it be when giant companies that consume vast amounts of energy commit to buying renewables? Well, the 110-megawatt Keechi wind power project in Texas, which Microsoft on Monday said...
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On Climate Change, Americans (Even Texans) Aren’t Fooled
The cranium of your Portland-based renewable energy correspondent just nearly exploded. The cause? Seeing new research that shows that 76 percent of Texans support tax breaks to produce renewable...
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Texas Wind Energy Set For Grid Connection
As we approach the end of 2013, Texas’ power grid is soon to embark on a new clean energy path. While most people don’t get too excited about electrical transmission and distribution lines, the much...
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Texas Sees Texas Size Growth In Wind Energy
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Monthly Update Growth in electricity demand in Texas has been met through increasing amounts of all sources of generation, but renewable...
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