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The City of Georgetown earned international attention a few years ago by becoming the largest city in the U.S. to run completely on renewable power. Now,…
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For the first time ever, wind has surpassed coal as an energy source in Texas. Data released this month by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas shows…
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Solar power continues to grow in Texas, new research finds, and that growth is due in part to another renewable energy the state has in abundance:…
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Facebook is building a massive solar farm in West Texas that's believed to be one of the largest solar projects in the nation and the social media giant's…
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Wind power in Texas is often seen as one of the state’s great success stories. It’s grown so much in the last 20 years that the state now leads the…
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In East Austin – just east of Airport Boulevard and a short drive from downtown – you’d rightly expect to find a new crop of houses going up. Instead,…
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When Billy Whipple was learning carpentry as a young man in New England, he got some strange advice about from a veteran carpenter.“He had his old beliefs…
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At a new 28-home development in East Austin, workers for Lighthouse Solar pull solar panels from the back of a trailer, haul them to a ladder, and then…
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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…
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Scott Canada says his company had big plans this year for a 100-megawatt solar farm outside Fort Stockton, Texas.“It would have been built over the next…