Clean Energy: Austin's Next Boom?

A Preview of Clean Energy Potential in Central Texas

"...Will "clean energy" become a new industry for Austin, with job-creating prowess..."

June 21, 2002 News Feature by Courtney Barry

Austin Energy Wins Round One

Austin Energy fends off rate case with only minor loss

"...for some Capitol theatre. The persistent reason that Austin Energy ratepayers hadn't seen an increase in their electric rates..."

March 8, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Austin Energy Freezes Fuel Charge

Customers to benefit from drop in natural gas futures

"...Good news for Austin Energy customers: the local energy utility has announced that their..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Trading One 'Community' for Another

Dan Harmon is talking to you

"...Jeff and me, we always make sure that the energy of the room is catered to. If it's dead,..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: Chuck, We Hardly Knew You

Chuck Manning's departure from Austin Energy comes at a most inopportune time for the city.

"...(the former Sumiken building, for you old-timers), where Austin Energy General Manager Chuck Manning is leaving at a most..."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Vin Diesel returns to kickstart this action series

"...Cage is the millennial generation’s answer to James Bond. Trading in 007’s classic tuxedo and dry martini for a..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Hightower Lowdown

The White House and Pentagon bomb us with propaganda; Enron's empire crumbles; stuff you don't need.

"...firm and turned it into mighty Enron, the biggest energy corporation in the world, drawing more than $100 billion..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Wrecking Crew

The great L.A. session band gets the doc treatment

"...first recorded his father, the late guitarist Tommy Tedesco, trading memories with fellow standout session players: drummer Hal Blaine,..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hightower Report

Reliant CEO Finds Religion; Edison Has the Vapors

"...forward, confess their sins, and seek absolution, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been calling on energy trading corporations..."

June 21, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

'Magic' Game Day at the Dragon's Lair

"...world over, joined only by their love for fantasy trading cards, spells, drawings of busty sorceresses, and T-shirts that..."

July 16, 2007 Sports Post by Sofia Resnick

Naked City

As the Door Revolves

"...role, with husband Sen. Phil, in the deregulation of energy trading that facilitated Enron's collapse -- welcomed Rollins' "exciting..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Sleater-Kinney Atomizes Austin City Limits

Reunited power trio warms up for sold-out Stubb’s gig Friday

"...anew after a decade-long layoff, releasing a surge of energy as fearsome as it was emphatic...."

April 16, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Transit Strike Looming?

Union President Wyatt: "It will happen sometime this week"

"...contingency plans, Wyatt said, "If any organization puts more energy into planning for a strike, that tells you they..."

Nov. 14, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Calling Down the Fury

Retribution Gospel Choir's LOUDquietLOUD

"...of Low and Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters trading amped-up versions of their familiarly mellow tunes...."

May 8, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...or rather the pumpin' and poppin', of the diseased energy-trading leviathan is amusing, appalling, and crystal clear. Enron was..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Pipe Dreams

Chapter 37 From Robert Bryce's new book on Enron

"...Although the California energy crisis was raging throughout Bush's first few months in..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Our Areas Are Sensitive

"...worldwide by other nations which are making huge profits trading and going into partnership to build up Cuba's industrial..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Column

E-tail This!

La Frontera is proof that e-commerce has not destroyed traditional retail commerce.

"...by Best Buy last month. Trans World is still trading at under a third of its historic high, closing..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Making of an Endorsement

"...P.L.L.C., DEEP BLUE AQUARIUMS, DEEP EDDY WEST, DESIGN FOR ENERGY, DISCOVERY CYCLE, DODD'S SERVICE CENTER, DOLLAR-A-DAY ADVERSITING, DON'S AUTOMOTIVE,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...depend on natural gas to derive hydrogen, though renewable energy is the ideal energy source. – Dan Mottola..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature

Windmill State of Mind

A Q&A with the authors of a new book on the story behind Texas wind power

"...may seem to be the redheaded stepchild of Texas' energy portfolio, but it turns out to have a legitimate..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

A Long, Watt Summer

The citywide Kill-a-Watt Challenge kicks off

"...and 2) higher efficiency standards. Our "biggest use of energy," he wrote in The Nation last month, "is in..."

May 25, 2007 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Global Warming Treaty Update

While the international community and some U.S. cities embrace the Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration resists, in typical assbackwards fashion

"...and trade carbon emissions that depends heavily on renewable energy, as well as wide-ranging efficiency technology in everything from..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

What Is to Be Done?

Environmentalists respond

"...of the challenge: a rapid global transition to noncarbon energy sources in the next 30 years. One approach might..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

Climate Bill

Doggett worries that the climate bill may be worse than doing nothing

"...Lloyd Doggett was denouncing HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. That put the loyal Democrat in..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...a night to remember. The bands were there, the energy was there, but the audience just wasn't. Whether it..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...of the Fayette coal plant by 2029 as Austin Energy finalizes its 2030 plan update, which it is set..."

March 1, 2024 News Feature

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...– each member perfectly suited for their own collectible trading card. In order of first appearance: faceless guitarist in..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Opinion: The Problem in Texas Isn’t Republicans – It’s Capitalism

To prevent last week's crises from recurring, we have to go beyond the Democrat vs. Republican culture wars and take back control of Texas' energy system.

"...last week quoting William Hogan, Harvard professor of global energy policy and ERCOT market architect, on the climate crisis..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Column by Dave Pinkham

Letters at 3AM: A Big Picture and a Long Game

A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars

"...Focus on oil. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (www.eia.gov), in 2011, 69% of U.S. oil..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

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