Coal Plants

Austin Energy says building a new natural gas plant will help meet Austin's energy needs. Members of a citizen oversight group say the utility is shirking its duty to reduce emissions and city climate goals.

From Texas Standard:Rockdale, Texas, an hour outside of Austin, was depending on a company called Bitmain – a Bitcoin “mining” company – to bring new jobs…

Take a rapidly growing state, add a scorching heat wave, and you have a recipe for historically high electricity use. So it was that Texas broke the…

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said this week that the Department of Energy is working on a plan to subsidize coal and nuclear power in the name of national…

Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke in Austin today about a new Department of Energy plan to bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants in the name of…

Texas' energy industry is in flux.The state's seen recent closures of three coal-powered power plants, as the state market shifts toward renewable sources…

The announcement that three coal power plants in Texas plan to close next year is likely good news for the environment, but bad news for the people who…

News that the Sandow Power Plant outside Rockdale was closing broke on Friday the 13th.“You would think you could put off till Monday to make that…

Energy company Luminant says it’s shutting down three of its coal-fired power plants in Texas by early next year. The sudden closure of so many plants is…