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Do energy efficiency measures result in using more energy? At the risk of overusing the “Saudi Arabia of …” theme, the United States is the Saudi Arabia of energy efficiency. As a nation, we waste so much energy in transportation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, home energy, electrical generation and consumables that the potential for savings [...]
Beaumont Independent School District was awarded incentives totaling $68,690.00 from Entergy Texas, Inc.’s School Conserving Resources (SCORESM) Program. These incentives were awarded to BISD for their efforts in increasing the energy efficiency of the air conditioning and lighting systems in 10 school buildings. The no-cost SCORE Program provides technical and financial support to help school districts identify and [...]
Customer Value Critical to Adoption and Success of Smart Grid Innovation (AUSTIN – February 23, 2011) – Saying that national smart grid efforts will be hampered without a stronger focus on customer products and services, Pecan Street Project today released a Request for Information (RFI) that will fund testing and development of a smart grid [...]
The Board of Directors of Pedernales Electric Cooperative has selected well-respected industry veteran R.B. Sloan Jr. to lead the nation’s largest electric distribution cooperative. Sloan, formerly a utilities director for two municipalities and the CEO of a 120,000-member cooperative, will assume his new role on March 6, 2011. “The Board sought an agent of change, [...]
State regulators tried to assure Texas senators Tuesday that they have the necessary authority to fix the problems that led to the Feb. 2 rolling blackouts, but some lawmakers remained skeptical. Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, said he wouldn’t want to rush to judgment after one hearing, but he said rolling blackouts are not acceptable. “We [...]
On Wednesday evening, February 9, Abacus Resources Energy, a retail electric provider in the Texas energy market, defaulted on its financial obligations to ERCOT, the organization which administers the state’s electricity market and grid. As a result, nearly 8,000 customers of Abacus Energy faced the potential of being transferred to the backstop electric provider, known [...]
Hey, Texplainer: Will my rates go up because of last week’s electricity mess? Lots of Texans are asking that question in the wake of last week’s rolling blackouts, and nobody’s going to be happy with the answer, which is: “It depends” (if you ask the electricity industry); or “Yes” (if you ask consumer advocates). The [...]
Power out at your house? You’ve got good company — 400,000 other Texans, as of noon today. But as of this afternoon, the lights (and heat) should be coming back on. The demand for power — namely heat — exceeded generation capacity around midnight last night, causing more than 50 generators to shut down statewide. The [...]
The TexasIsHot Campaign was the result of a series of conversations between two friends looking for energy solutions for their homes. Their problem: They couldn’t find a single, cohesive source of information regarding energy efficiency. So they called on Curt Seidlits, former chairman of the State Affairs Committee, to help them build a campaign that [...]