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Public Citizen Texas Honors Texas’ Outstanding Public Servants

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 25th anniversary, amarillo, Austin American-Statesman, austin chronicle, austin city council, Austin Energy, awards, claudia grisales, clean economy coalition, corpus christi, david swinford, democracy, doug lewin, environmental journalism, fort worth, gerry sansing, glenn lewis, green building program, greenchoice, Greg Harman, health, las brisas coal plant, lifetime achievement award, lon burnam, pedernales electric cooperative, Public Citizen, rafael anchia, Rodney Ellis, safety, San Antonio, san antonio current, tarrant county, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas outstanding public service, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Victoria, waste control specialists, wendy davis, wes stafford, whistleblower, wind warrior award on November 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

AUSTIN – Public Citizen Texas will be honoring the recipients of this year’s Texas Outstanding Public Service (TOPS) Awards at the organization’s 25th anniversary dinner today. The awardees are local visionaries, recognized experts and celebrated advocates who have aided in the effort to help Texas realize a more environmentally conscious and sustainable energy future. Those [...]

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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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