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By bouncey, March 31, 2009, News
Last week, the Public Utility Commission of Texas received an outline of recommendations from a variety of players in the wind energy market on the best approaches for dealing with overloaded power lines. While new transmission lines to handle the increasing power needs will be built over the next five years, the PUC is looking for ways to reduce congestion in the near future.
A group of wind-farm developers, retail electricity providers and othe [...]
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FAQs»
By Vernon T., March 23, 2009, FAQs
When the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) helped set up the rules for Texas electricity deregulation, they noted that "...the market prices of generation will likely be set by gas-fired generation, and as such, it is appropriate to apply the changes in the market price of natural gas to the entire fuel factor in order to maintain the level of headroom in the price to beat.”This acknowleges two facts: First [...]
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Energy Efficiency, Green, News, Save Money»
By bouncey, March 17, 2009, Energy Efficiency, Green, News, Save Money
In June 2007, while at a conference in Seattle, I got an invite from a colleague at Microsoft to drive over to Redmond and see the "Microsoft Future House" (it had an official name, but I can't remember what it was). Before entering, I had to sign an NDA and was sworn to secrecy. What I saw there was nothing short of spectacular. I saw some of the "coolest" technological advancements seemingly possible. What was explained [...]
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News, Save Money»
By Vernon T., March 10, 2009, News, Save Money
There have been several newspaper reports citing the average price paid per residential kilowatt hour in Texas as 10.34 cents. This information orginally came from a page on the US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) website.The page shows an interactive map. Users can mouse over their state and learn the average price (cents per kilowatt hour).All of which seems pretty straightforward; any user would [...]
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Green, News»
By bouncey, March 2, 2009, Green, News
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