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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Net Metering Policies in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged electric utility, Electricity meter, net metering, Public Citizen, Texas on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Participate in the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission’s Review of the PUC
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Energy Efficiency, net metering, PUC, renewable energy, Sunset, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In 1977, the Texas Legislature created the Sunset Advisory Commission to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies. The 12-member Commission is a legislative body that reviews the policies and programs of more than 150 government agencies every 12 years. The Commission questions the need for each agency, looks for potential duplication [...]
Join Public Citizen at the Renewable Energy Roundup!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Efficiency, energy districts, fredericksburg, net metering, public citizen texas, renewable energy, renewable roundup, SEED Coalition, smart meters, solar, wind on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Still not sure what to do this weekend, Sept 25 – 27th? Come on out to Fredericksburg and join Public Citizen Texas at the 10th annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair! Over the past 10 years, this community and family oriented Green Living Fair has grown to be the largest “green show” in [...]
Good Day (for Texas) Sunshine!
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged good day sunshine, green jobs, hb 1243, net metering, sb 545, solar energy, solar in schools, solar power, Texas Legislature on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Ray of Hope for Solar Power
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged bio gas, buy back rates, hb 1243, net metering, non wind rps, rps, sb 545, senator fraser, small wind, solar, texas senate, troy fraser, voter id on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this morning, I offered the consolation that bills which died due to the Voter ID debacle could be revived as amendments to other bills. This afternoon, I’m keeping an eye on the Senate to see if my solar dreams will come true. This afternoon, the Senate has HB 1243 on their intent calendar. HB [...]
Go Solar: Make Utilities Give Consumers a Fair Price for Surplus Electricity
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged buy back rates, electric rates, environment texas, foreign oil, gallego, house state affairs committee, lubbock, luke metzger, net metering, pollution, public utilities commission of texas, PUCT, shallowater high school, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, solomons, Texas, texas house, Texas Legislature, texas senate, TXU on May 11, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Thanks to Luke Metzger at the Environment Texas blog for this take on pending net metering legislation (read: making sure folks with solar panels get paid back for the excess energy they produce): On Monday, the Texas House will decide whether to promote solar energy by requiring utilities to pay consumers fair prices for surplus [...]
Friday Recommended Reading
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged andrews waste dump, cap and trade, carbon offsets, carbonfund, climate change, costs of inaction, greenhouse gasses, houston chronicle, mayland, net metering, New York Times, nuclear waste, nuclear waste dump, photovoltaics world, Washington Post, waxman-markey on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time for a Friday wrap-up, all the news that’s fit to link: The Cost of Climate Inaction, Op-Ed in the Washington Post An Affordable Salvation, New York Times Op-Ed about the benefits of cap and trade Carbon Offsets in Waxman-Markey Bill, An Overview, Carbonfund.org Blog Maryland Passes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, SustainableBusiness.com News Cap and [...]
The future of small-scale renewable energy: Project 34890
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged interconnection, net metering, PUC, solar, wind on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Tuesday I spoke at the PUC’s public hearing on Project 34890, which is charged with deciding on a net metering and interconnection policy for the deregulated markets in Texas. If that description sounds arcane and confusing to you, that’s because it is. In fact, in calling around to several investor-owned utilities last week, most [...]
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