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Texas’ Wind Transmission Project Keeps Rolling — Wind Energy | The Texas Tribune
Sep 8th
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 through their county — even though it would carry clean, renewable wind power. Later today, the company that wants to build the line will file a stack of paperwork refuting some of the objections and asking Texas regulators for permission to proceed anyway.
It’s the latest episode in the marathon More >
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Loading ...Blevins Course Schedule: Energy & Earth Resources, University of Texas, Fall 2010
Aug 21st
You are scheduled for 3 classes and 9 hours for Fall 2010
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POLIT ECONOMY OF GLOBAL ENERGY
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2:00- 5:00P
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...RENEWABLES COULD ADD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN TEXAS (Former Chief Dpty. Comptroller, Billy Hamilton)
Aug 16th
August 16, 2010
RENEWABLES COULD ADD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN TEXAS
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 23,000 jobs a year for the next decade and almost $279 million more in state and local tax collections, a study released today shows.
The study, Texas’ Clean Economy … What We Need to Succeed, by former Chief Deputy Comptroller Billy Hamilton, argues that the state has a vast untapped potential More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Strong Growth, But Are Rocky Times Coming for Wind?
Aug 10th
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 in stark contrast to wind’s 2010 first half performance, which American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode characterized as “dismal.”
The 2009 Wind Technologies Market Report, by Wiser and Mark Bolinger of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), describes a record-breaking 2009. Yet a 71 percent drop in installation in the More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...University Receives $19 Million To Monitor Carbon Storage Project
Jul 8th
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 gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired power plant.
This project will be among the first in the state of Texas, and one of only a handful in the world, to use anthropogenic CO2 as opposed to naturally occurring CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR is a technique that More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Largest solar farm in Texas planned in Pflugerville – Austin Business Journal
Jul 2nd
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 to local officials.
RRE Austin Solar, a local company backed by India-based investors, has bought 600 acres of farmland about 15 miles east of Pflugerville.
The Pflugerville City Council announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Austin Solar, under which the company will install up to $750,000 in More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Goes Live With New Meter Data Management System (Siemens eMeter)
Jun 24th
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 the information collected, the customer will be able to assess the implications of variable-rate pricing as regulators consider moving to time-of-use (TOU) and event-based rates in the future.
“Energy Engage is an instrumental piece of our Sustainable Grid program. We feel it empowers our members to More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Texas Municipal Utility to Deploy Landis+Gyr Smart Grid System
Jun 24th
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 with a goal to complete the work by 2015. Gridstream RF is a two-way mesh network that delivers advanced metering, distribution automation and personal energy management communications.
Based in San Antonio, Texas, CPS Energy provides electric service to 707,000 customers and natural gas service to 322,000 customers in and surrounding More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Landis + Gyr to Install a Million More Meters in Texas (CPS Energy)
Jun 21st
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 state to over five million.
CPS serves approximately 707,000 electricity customers and 322,000 natural gas customers in the region. The utility wants to gets its smart meter network fully operational by 2015. Like smart meter deployments elsewhere, CPS’ network will grow in size and complexity as time goes on. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...TX House Committee on State Affairs (May 12): “green” technologies, climate change
May 3rd
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” technologies for all
state buildings and costs associated with such implementation.
Interim Charge 3: Monitor federal legislation and regulatory initiatives
pertaining to climate change and its effects on utilities and consumers.
Consider Texas’ response to proposals and make recommendations as to any
further preparations.
Interim Charge 5: Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee’s
jurisdiction.
Invited testimony only.
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