In a Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing on Thursday, to address what happened to cause the rolling blackouts of Feb. 2, members of the commission accused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) of ignoring dire energy forecasts, failing to communicate with other important decision makers, and understating the risk of rolling blackouts. As part of [...]
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PUC seeks authority to unilaterally fire an ERCOT CEO
Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, public utility commission, Rolling blackout, Texas on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power… or does it?
Posted in Energy, solar, Texas Legislature, tagged Ken Anderson, non wind rps, public utility commission, renewable energy, rps, solar power, Texas, Texas Legislature on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters carried a good story with this headline Texas, home to Big Oil takes a shine to solar power that describes the solar potential that exists, along with industry involvement and how it could be expanded here if we could just develop some statewide policy that supports it. Too bad the commissioners at the Texas [...]
By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of Schedule, Texas Shows Policies Work
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Carbon Dioxide, nitrous oxide, non wind rps, Public Citizen, public utility commission, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, rps, Texas, Texas Legislature, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, TREIA, wind coalition on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office We are thrilled – but not surprised – that because of a growth spurt in the development of wind energy, Texas has met its renewable energy goal 15 years ahead of schedule. Each time Texas has set a renewable energy goal, the state has achieved [...]
Texas Smart Meter Portal Goes Live
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged centerpoint, electricity consumption, energy usage, oncor, public utility commission, smart meters, smartmetertexas.com, website on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Public Utility Commission has launched a new website called www.SmartMeterTexas.com that allows customers to track their energy usage in 15-minute increments to better understand their usage patterns and potentially decrease their electricity consumption and costs. After several years of behind the scenes work, this is the first step in smart grid, or advanced meter [...]
Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar idea
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged 82nd legislature, carrollton, dallas, democrats, distributed energy, energy future holdings, environment texas, farmers branch, females, green jobs, hispanics, incentives, irving, jobs, legislator of the year, males, manufacturing, market development, mccall johnson, oncor, Public Citizen, public utility commission, PUC, rafael anchia, republicans, retail electric providers, silicon, solar, solar power, solarcity, TXU on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award. Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is that we can’t let the [...]
Public Citizen’s Energy Efficiency Op-Ed in Houston Chronicle
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged Energy Efficiency, green jobs, houston chronicle, matthew johnson, president obama, Public Citizen, public utility commission, PUC, Texas, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Houston Chronicle ran an Op-Ed Sunday entitled An energy winner: Big savings are possible by upgrading efficiency goals. Authors: Public Citizen’s Tom “Smitty” Smith and Matthew Johnson. Check it out: In the world of energy, there’s one clear winner when it comes to cost, cleanliness and speed: energy efficiency. Although regulated utilities in Texas, [...]
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