CPS Energy, San Antonio’s municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federal regulations. CPS Energy is the nation’s largest city-owned [...]
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San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the nick of time.
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, CPS Energy, Deely, San Antonio on June 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CPS Energy: Leading San Antonio into the New Energy Economy
Posted in Global Warming, tagged CPS Energy, Energy, renewable, renewable energy on February 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Solar Austin is hosting a special event featuring the CEO of San Antonio’s municipal utility, Doyle Beneby of CPS. Mr. Beneby will discuss CPS Energy’s plan to pursue affordable renewable energy. This special event will take place at Malverde (400 W. 2nd, next to City Hall) with a Reception starting at 4pm and talk from 5 to [...]
San Antonio Tying Renewable Energy to the Growth of Their Economy
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged CPS Energy, Energy, renewable, San Antonio, solar power, sustainable energy, Texas on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
CPS Energy CEO Doyle Beneby announced that the utility will acquire an additional 50 megawatts of solar power and that the company chosen to build the new plants for it will be required to locate a portion of its business in San Antonio. Currently the negotiations include a leading solar manufacturer to locate a small office [...]
CPS Energy adds another 30 MW of Solar to its generation mix
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged CPS Energy, Energy, renewable, renewable energy, San Antonio, solar power, SunEdison on October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
CPS Energy in San Antonio continues to move forward with its renewable plans under Mayor Julian Castro. A major new solar announcement, just as its 14 MW solar system is getting finished, is good news indeed. San Antonio has been a leader in wind energy and now leads the state in solar, where is the [...]
Smitty: Austin and San Antonio took different paths when choosing new electric utility management
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Good Government, Nuclear, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, CPS Energy, public citizen texas, San Antonio, Tom "Smitty" Smith, transparency on July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is Andy checking in from Vegas and Netroots Nation: sheesh, we leave Texas for a few days and the wheels start to come off the bus, don’t they? Of course, our fearless and tireless leader, Tom “Smitty” Smith is there to handle everything, as he has done for the last 2 and a half [...]
CPS/NRG Settlement Shows Nuclear Power Too Costly, Too Risky
Posted in Nuclear, tagged City Council, CPS Energy, Department of Energy, doe, Loan Guarantees, nrg energy, rate increase, San Antonio, south texas nuclear project, South Texas Project, STP, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Today’s announcement that as a part of a settlement with NRG Energy, CPS Energy will withdraw its application for a federal loan guarantee for the South Texas (Nuclear) Project (STP) expansion and end further investment in the project demonstrates nuclear plants are too costly and [...]
San Antonio Public Forum on Proposed Rate Hikes
Posted in Energy, tagged CPS Energy, rate hike, San Antonio on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight San Antonio citizens will have a chance to weigh in on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike. I have the following request from an activist in San Antonio: Monday night CPS will be taking comments from the public on the proposed rate increase. This is short notice but we need a strong showing. We are [...]
Nuclear Renaissance Dealt Blow by South Texas Project Troubles
Posted in Energy, Good Government, Nuclear, tagged CPS Energy, doe, julian castro, larry noll, NINA, nrg energy, Nuclear, nuclear loan guarantees, nuclear reactors, nuclear renaissance, public citizen texas, San Antonio, South Texas Project, Tom "Smitty" Smith on January 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A critical court ruling today rang the first chime in what could be the death knell of the so-called “nuclear renaissance,” starting with the failed expansion of the South Texas Project (STP). This afternoon’s ruling by 408th District Court Judge Larry Noll that CPS Energy can safely withdraw from the proposed STP expansion project without [...]
Public Citizen Welcomes Opportunity for Senate to Hold Rogue Utility CPS Energy Accountable
Posted in Energy, Good Government, Nuclear, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, CPS Energy, low income families, municipal utilities, Nuclear Power, public citizen texas, San Antonio, senate business and commerce, South Texas Project, Texas, Tom "Smitty" Smith on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office The latest interim charge of the state Senate Business and Commerce Committee provides a welcome opportunity for Texas to rein in rogue utilities like CPS Energy of San Antonio. Now tasked with studying the costs of municipally owned utilities’ generation plans and their impacts [...]
CPS-NRG Lawsuit: Settlement Meeting and Citizen Intervenors
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged citizen intervenors, City Council, city public services, CPS Energy, david crane, Greg Harman, karen seal, lawsuit, nrg energy, orlando gutierrez, ratepayer protection coalition, ratepayers, San Antonio, san antonio current, settlement, steve winn on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Representatives from San Antonio’s CPS Energy and NRG Energy, their partner in the proposed South Texas Nuclear Project expansion, met this morning to try and reach a settlement on their $32 Billion lawsuit. But CPS acting General Manager Jelynne LeBlanc-Burley apparently walked out of the meeting after learning that “neither Nuclear Innovation North America CEO [...]
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