Call to action: Pedernales Co-op Members |
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PEC has begun its 2009 Board Elections; members can vote online or by mail between May 6th and June 12th. Your vote will decide the future of your future energy options.
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Cost and Consumer Impacts of South Texas Nuclear Project and Comanche
Peak’s Proposed Expansion Revealed |
Public Citizens Release Report on the Costs of Current and Planned
Nuclear Power Plants in Texas
Texas environmental organizations release a study on solar power's job creation and energy savings potential in Texas.
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Energy Efficiency Measures We Support in the Texas State Legislature: |
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April 14, '09
Representative Anchia's House Bill 280 sets goals for energy efficiency programs that will reduce peak electricity demand by one percent by 2016 and two percent by 2021. The Senate Business and Commerce Committee recently approved the companion bill, Senate Bill 546 by Senator Fraser. Both bills should to go to the floor soon.
Senator Averitt's Senate Bill 16 establishes new 2009 statewide building codes, energy efficient appliance standards and an Energy Star appliance rebate program;
Read more...
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| Energy Effiency in Texas |
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Assessment of Feasible and Achievable Levels of Electric Savings from Investor Owned Utilities in Texas 2009-2018
New Public Utility Commission energy efficiency study finds Texas could reduce electric usage by 23% if utilities invest more in efficiency measures, saving Texans as much $11.9 billion on their electric bills.
Download a copy of the report
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| Texas Comptroller's Energy Report 2008 |
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Texas has both the natural and human resources to create a broader energy portfolio. Read the Comptroller's report and executive summary below. Or read an individual chapter at the Comptroller's site here.
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Solar Power's Job Creation Potential in Texas |
Texas environmental organizations release a study on solar power's job creation and energy savings potential in Texas.
For copies of the press releases and statements on this report go to our news section.
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Nuclear Power Plant Costs in Texas |
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Costs of current and planned nuclear power plants in Texas
A report by Clarence Johnson
Climate Change and Texas: The Debate is Largely Over
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- Federal Legislation is coming, like it or not
- What Federal Legislation might look like-and how to get ahead of it!
- The price of inaction
- Successful policies that have reduced emissions in Texas
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- And how to expand them!
Download a copy of the four page report here.
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Texas could reduce electric usage by 23%
New Public Utility Commission energy efficiency study - finds Texas could reduce electric usage by 23% if utilities invest more in efficiency measures, saving Texans as much $11.9 billion on their electric bills. Read the study...
Energy storage is key for solar and wind power in Texas! 
Utility Scale Energy (with special focus on Compressed Air Energy Storage, CAES)
Presented by: Dr. Robert B. Schainker
November 10, 2008
View the EPRI slides presentation Adobe pdf format.
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Energy Efficiency Potential:
San Antonio's Bright Energy Future |
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August 11, 2008
San Antonio, TX
Energy efficiency is a viable, affordable and effective way to meet the future energy needs of San Antonio according to a new study by Dr. Arjun Makhijani, energy expert and president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, based in Takoma Park, Maryland.
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Cheaper, Cleaner, Cooler:
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What can cities do to increase energy efficiency?
Sierra Club applauds the City of Edinburg for reaching Cool Cities status
EDINBURG, July 19 - The Sierra Club has applauded the City of Edinburg for signing on to a national climate protection agreement and thus becoming the first Rio Grande Valley city to join the Cool Cities Campaign.
A Cool City, a national initiative sponsored by the Sierra Club, is one that has made a commitment to cut down on environmentally harmful emissions locally, and implement smart energy policies that save taxpayers dollars.
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Mark Peña at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge |
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Latest News
June 1, 2009
Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk
Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three U.S. refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University sponsored by the National Commission on Energy Policy released on Monday.
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May, 2009
Green Star State
Texas Monthly:
Everything you—and our legislators up at the Capitol—need to know about how to make Texas an energy leader for the twenty-first century.
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May 05, 2009
Green Texas
University of Texas:
Researchers put state at forefront of renewable energy revolution
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April 28, 2009
Texas Voters: We Love Free Renewables
A new poll of Texans found strong support for renewable fuels, even in this state that still lionizes Spindletop and has built two world-class university systems with petro-dollars.
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Green Inc. blog
March 25, 2009
Texas Aims for Solar Dominance
The Lone Star State leads the country
in wind power. Now Texas aims to ramp up its solar production, too.
This week the state senate is considering an avalanche of bills that would
boost state incentives for solar power, and the entire legislative session has
become known as the "solar session."
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San Antonio Queblog
March 17, 2009
Kicking carbon out of homes, before the sea swallows us whole
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San Antonio Queblog
March 13, 2009
Science suggests Australia's present drought and wildfires may be tracking to Texas. And guess who's fidding?
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San Antonio Express 12/14/08
Las Brisas plan heats up debate (Corpus Christi) - Local discussions surrounding the proposed Las Brisas Energy Center have hit on a buzzword that also is shaping the national energy debate - gasification. In a nutshell, gasification involves super-heating a solid fuel, such as coal or petroleum coke, to produce a synthetic gas.
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Houston Business Journal 9/19/08
Companies branch out into green energy after Ike To help answer the question of what to do with Houston's 5.6 million cubic yards of tree and yard waste from Hurricane Ike, Mayor Bill White decided to hold a contest for ideas. While White's deadline for submissions was set for Nov. 14, two companies are already moving to convert the waste into energy.
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San Antonio Express 8/26/08
Rethinking energy
Michael Burke has seen our energy future and it's not in a barrel of oil.
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Salon Magazine 7/28/08
Why we never need to build another polluting power plant
Coal? Natural gas? Nuke? We can wipe them all off the drawing board
by using current energy more efficiently. Are you listening, Washington?
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El Paso Times July 27, 2008
El Paso in position to harness sun's energy
El Paso could be poised to use the sun's energy as an alternative to fossil fuels because of its unique geographic location and abundantly sunny climate, experts and officials said this weekend at a summit designed to explore to possibilities of developing solar energy here.
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Fort Worth Business Press July 21, 2008
North Texas pushes new energy solutions
The North Texas area is nationally known as a leader and example of natural gas production, but one company and one individual, both with oil business pasts, could help the Metroplex become known for more alternative energy resources, too.
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Featured Program
PROJECT GREEN
The CO2 State
Texas produces more carbon emissions than most countries, but the state government and business community don't seem too concerned.
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