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Sylvester Turner Takes PUC Commissioners to Task

Posted in Global Warming, tagged aarp texas, Austin Energy, Consumers, CPS, disconnection rule, economic downturn, elderly, electricity disconnections, energy bills, free fans program, health care, health insurance, heat related death, heat stroke, herbert gaston, houston, low-income, municipal utilities, one voice texas, public utilities commission of texas, PUC, puc commissioners, summer heat wave, sylvester turner, texas legal services, texas rose, unemployment on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Recently the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) denied the emergency petition of State Representative Sylvester Turner (D – Houston) and a number of advocacy groups including AARP Texas, Texas ROSE, Texas Legal Services, and One Voice Texas, to prevent dangerous electricity disconnections during Texas’ hot summer months. This petition was designed to offer relief to elderly, [...]

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Texas Legislature Advances Clean Power and Green Jobs, but Loses Steam in Political Wranglings

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, AECT, andrews county, building codes, carbon sequestration, clean coal, Clean Energy, clean power, compact loophole, Cyrus Reed, distributed energy, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, environmental defense fund, environmental groups, fast tracked water permits, flynn, germaneness, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, house committee on environmental regulation, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, luke metzger, mtbe, no regrets, Nuclear, plug-in hybrids, Public Citizen, PUC, radioactive waste dump, recycling, renewable energy, representative rafael anchia, SEED Coalition, senator ellis, senator troy fraser, Sierra Club, TAM, TCEQ, tdot, texas association of manufacturers, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith, txdot, utility efficiency goal, voter id, water contamination, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Environmental Groups See Clean Energy Groundwork Laid for the Future (Austin) Senate and House members from both political parties showed unprecedented support for developing more renewable energy and energy efficiency in Texas by filing a large number of clean power, green jobs bills in the 81st Texas State Legislature. A number of major bills passed [...]

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Waco Trib Weighs in on Renewable Portfolio Standard

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged democrat, environmentalism, Global Warming, kip averitt, kirk watson, PUC, republicans, Rick Perry, solar energy, texas house, texas public utility commission, texas senate, troy fraser, voter id bill, waco tribune on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

EDITORIAL: Seeing the light and all its power Thursday, May 14, 2009 Dismiss talk of global warming and environmentalism if you must. But times are changing fast and, along with them, the very way we heat and cool our homes and businesses. The Texas Senate signaled as much this week, approving a bill encouraging development [...]

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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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Energy Efficiency Stimulates, but Nuclear Pork Fizzles

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Nuclear, tagged Congress, congressional budget office, economic recovery, Energy Efficiency, house, karnes city, kingsville, Luminant, Nuclear, nuclear loan guarantees, nuclear loans, nuclear waste, obama, Public Citizen, PUC, renewable energy, senate, senate appropriations committee, shovel ready, south texas nuclear plant, stimulus bill, stimulus package, Tom "Smitty" Smith, uranium mining, wall street on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A message from our director, Tom “Smitty” Smith: Today the House and Senate are working to reconcile their different versions of the long-awaited economic stimulus package. The stakes are now higher than ever for Texans, who stand to gain from billions that could go toward developing renewable energy and efficiency in the state, reducing pollution [...]

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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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You so CRE-Z

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged CREZ, PUC, Renewables, solar, wind on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So the Public Utility Commission of Texas announced today that they will go with Scenario 2 on CREZ (Competitive Renewable Energy Zone). This explains what’s going on pretty well. CPS Energy looks kind of ridiculous in it. They originally endorsed Scenario 1b (the least amount of transmission to be considered), but last week the Express-News [...]

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Cleaner cheaper energy for Texas? Coming soon! (We Won!!)

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Global Warming, PUC, Renewables, solar, wind on July 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This article originally posted at citizenvox.org Global warming is the singular environmental challenge of our generation. Some people claim you cannot be green without sacrificing economic development. Actually, we can create a greener energy future for Texas and reduce our electric bills at the same time by investing in our electric infrastructure. This week the [...]

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