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Austin Energy May Cut GreenChoice Power Prices

Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, City Council, green choice, greenchoice, maintenance fees, Roger Duncan, transmission on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After a rash of local and national press about the recent failure of Austin Energy’s GreenChoice program, Austin Energy has decided to re-evaluate their pricing structure. The city may be able to reduce the cost of the program by as much as 25%. Turns out Austin Energy was overly conservative in their estimate of how [...]

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Dispelling Green Choice Myths

Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, Clean Energy, Coal, contract, electricity deregulation, Energy, energy grid, Gas, green choice, greenchoice, Myths, natural gas, Power, Renewables, Texas, transmission lines, wind on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Since the Austin American Statesman published a couple of articles on the less-than-stellar sales of Austin Energy’s Green Choice program, many media outlets have picked up the story and the takeaway message is something like “liberal Austin finds out the hard way that renewable energy is too expensive”. It’s really regrettable that this message is [...]

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City Delays on Solar Plant Vote

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, austin city council, austin community college, Austin Energy, Brewster McCracken, david power, environment texas, freescale semiconductor, gemini solar, green choice, green jobs, Lee Leffingwell, luke metzger, matthew kresha, mike martinez, paul robbins, Public Citizen, renewable energy student's association, Roger Duncan, roger wood, save the austin solar plant, solar plant, solar power, spansion, Texas, texas vox, tim lasake, Webberville on February 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »

As expected, the Austin City Council made the decision to delay the vote on Austin Energy’s proposed solar plant until March 5th. Council Member Mike Martinez wanted to put it off longer, but since the bid for the plant will actually expire just seven days after this March meeting, the council agreed unanimously to have [...]

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