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Green Power: Best Deal for Austin
By Axel Gerdau for PowerSmack.org
The debate over Austin’s energy future is getting louder. Energy experts and consumer rights activists are taking a firm stance against criticism voiced by predicament advocates and state legislators against Austin Energy’s generation plan proposal. Their argument: The utility should do more, not less, for green...
Read More In the Press: More Transparency Needed, Lower GreenChoice Rates Coming
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This weeks cover story in the Austin Chronicle, “Twisting in the Wind – Austin Energy is all tangled up in smoke and wind mills over energy pricing”, provides a glimpse into the ongoing debate over Austin’s energy policy. Author Nora Ankrum...
Read More Fixing Austin’s Green Rate
Austin City Council voted on a substantial price reduction for the GreenChoice electric rate.
This is great news for the people of Austin.
But even if the Austin rate drops as expected, saving a typical green residential customer $38 per month, it will still be higher than the average green electric rate...
Read More “Who Brainwashed Texas on Renewable Energy?”
“Who Brainwashed Texas on Renewable Energy?”, asks John Geesman, the former Energy Commissioner of the State of California, on the eve of a grand scale lobby effort by the fossil fuel industry in Texas (see "Town Hall" for related news). The companies are urging the Senate to make business-friendly changes...
Read More Texas Electric Rates Falling, but Not in Austin
There is a common perception that municipally-owned utilities (like Austin Energy) have lower electric rates than competitive “For Profit” utilities in Texas. While that has generally been true in the past, it is not necessarily true today in light of lower fuel costs.Austin Energy’s rates are based on the TOTAL...
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