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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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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 [...]

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Texas’ Solar Future is on top of Texas Schools

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Energy, HB 3405, incentive program, Representative Strama, savings, solar energy, solar panels, Texas schools, utility bills on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Representative Mark Strama has crafted a genius amendment to HB 3405. The bill, co-authored by Representative Swinford and Representative Anchia, calls for an incentive program for solar power generation through surcharges on utility bills, and Mark Strama is looking at how Texas Schools specifically could benefit from the construction of solar panels on their rooftops. [...]

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San Antonio: Mission Verde, CPS Energy, and (Real Ultimate) Solar Power

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged bill sinkin, CPS Energy, david power, Greg Harman, mayor hardberger, mission verd, queblog, real ultimate power, San Antonio, san antonio current, san antonio express news, solar energy, solar power, superman, tommy adkisson on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m embarrassed. Greg Harman at the San Antonio Current beat me to covering my own press conference. And he did a way better job than I ever could have done. The only explanation is that Greg Harman is Superman. Or, that I am one very busy media coordinator who needs to re-align her priorities (from [...]

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Solar Tech, Can you make me happy when skies are gray?

Posted in Global Warming, tagged aveda hair salon, concentrating solar power, discovery green, entech solar, gattaca, heliovolt, meridian solar, pearl brewery, photovoltaics, San Antonio, solar energy, texas solar roadmap, thin film pv, wildcatting the sun on February 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

We held a press conference yesterday in San Antonio at the Pearl Brewery, which is currently being renovated and, upon its completion, will have the largest solar array panel in the state of Texas. Installed by Austin’s own Meridian Solar, the new system is expected to generate 25% of the energy needs for the new [...]

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