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This is one of my MUST READS. Reading the Derivatives Markets: Oil Futures Prices May Not Mean What You Think | Texas Enterprise. by Sheridan Titman on March 22, 2011 Written in conjunction with Malcolm Wardlaw As I mentioned in my earlier posts on crude price divergence, the market’s view of the Gulf oil spill
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by Kate Galbraith September 8, 2010 This is the first part in a three-part series examining Texas’ $5 billion build-out of transmission lines to support wind power, which is encountering increasing opposition. Last week, to cheers from a crowded courtroom, commissioners in Denton Countyunanimously passed a resolution opposing the construction of a big new transmission line
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August 16, 2010 RENEWABLES COULD ADD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN TEXAS New report by Billy Hamilton says state has vast untapped solar resources. If lawmakers next year expand the renewable portfolio standards for electric generation to 13,000 with about one-fourth of that set aside for solar power, Texas could expect to add nearly
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HERMAN K. TRABISH: AUGUST 10, 2010 Strong Growth, But Are Rocky Times Coming for Wind? Wind is strong, but natural gas, transmission line issues loom “We’re growing dramatically,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff scientist Ryan Wiser said of the wind industry’s 2009 performance. “We’re on a path to achieve much higher levels of wind.” This is
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June 28, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin will receive up to $19 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and NRG Energy to design and oversee a monitoring plan for a carbon capture and storage demonstration project in southeast Texas. The project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of the greenhouse
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Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:40am CDT Austin Business Journal – by Francisco Vara-Orta Staff Writer Read more: Largest solar farm in Texas planned in Pflugerville – Austin Business Journal Pflugerville could be home to the largest solar farm in Texas, pending a final agreement between RRE Austin Solar, the City of Pflugerville, Elgin ISD and Travis County, according
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Siemens Energy, Inc. has completed the installation of the first full-scale roll-out of eMeter’s Energy Engage customer web portal on-site at Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative in Bastrop, Texas. The portal was deployed on top of the eMeter EnergyIP Meter Data Management platform to provide Bluebonnet’s consumers easily accessible and understandable daily usage and cost information. With
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Jun 23, 2010 11:22 PM Landis+Gyr has been selected by CPS Energy to deploy its Gridstream smart grid solution for its more than one million electric and natural gas customers inSan Antonio, Texas. CPS Energy plans to begin the deployment of the Landis+Gyr Gridstream RF technology, including advanced meters and supporting network infrastructure, later this year
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MICHAEL KANELLOS: JUNE 21, 2010 That brings the total to 5 million in the Lone Star State. But will lawsuits follow? Landis + Gyr will install over 1 million gas and electricity smart meters for CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas bringing the total number of meters for which Landis is under contract for that
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: State Affairs TIME & DATE: 11:00 AM, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 PLACE: JHR 140 CHAIR: Rep. Burt Solomons The House Committee on State Affairs will meet to hear invited testimony only on interim charges 2, 3, and 5. Interim Charge 2: Examine of state policy on “green”