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Legislation filed in response to fight between city of Byran and its electric company could end city-owned utilities open records exemption

Posted in Good Government, tagged Energy, public utility, steve ogden, electric utility, Utilities on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Municipally owned utility companies could lose their exemption to parts of the Texas Open Meetings Act under a bill filed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden. The bill was filed in response to a dispute between the City of Bryan and its publicly operated electric company. Last year City of Byran officials asked Bryan Texas Utilities [...]

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Net Metering Policies in Texas

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Public Citizen, net metering, Texas, electric utility, Electricity meter on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This past summer, interns in Public Citizen‘s Texas office were busy calling utility companies (including rural electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities) to find out what their policies were on net-metering. Net-metering is an arrangement by which excess renewable electricity produced by consumers who own (generally small) renewable energy facilities, such as wind, solar power or home fuel cells, [...]

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Businesses, Environmental and Low-Income Groups Unite Behind Energy Plan

Posted in Global Warming, tagged wind, solar, renewable energy, Public Citizen, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, Austin Energy, Air Quality, natural gas, Sierra Club, Weatherization, coal plant, austin city council, Lee Leffingwell, matthew johnson, coalition, Solar Austin, town hall, nuclear plant, 20/20, health, mayor, clean energy for austin, Applied Materials, electric utility commission, resource and climate protection plan, low income residents, electric utility, steve taylor, flexibility, generation and resource planning task force, phillip schmandt, cary ferchill, green businesses, sunshine mathon, foundation communities, nonprofits, fossil fuel reliance on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Dozens of businesses and nonprofit organizations as well as more than 200 citizens have formed Clean Energy for Austin, a coalition whose purpose is to push Austin City Council to adopt a clean energy plan. Specifically, the coalition supports the passage of Austin Energy’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan and recommendations of a city task [...]

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