This Week in Texas Energy: Gas Prices Coming Back Down
Plus: AMD bids to make Tesla chips, Perry pushes carbon capture, and a cute promotion from a gas station in Nash.
Reporting and commentary on the Texas energy industry and innovations shaping its future
Plus: AMD bids to make Tesla chips, Perry pushes carbon capture, and a cute promotion from a gas station in Nash.
In a series of major chemical accidents caused by Harvey, this might be the worst yet.
How a wisecracking 95-year-old chemist plans to reenergize the future.
But the 2018 Mexican election could put a kink in the hose.
Officials at Magellan Midstream Partners claim floodwaters made them underestimate the magnitude of the gasoline spill at Galena Park.
Houston’s Galena Park neighborhood deals with a massive oil spill after Harvey, Exxon loses a fight to keep documents secret in New York’s climate change fraud probe, and the Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission is running for re-election.
Unlike electric cars, which take can take hours to fully charge, refueling a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle takes about as much time as it does to gas up your car.
With the release of 4.5 million barrels of crude oil, Energy Secretary Perry expects to see just a two-week disruption in gas prices.
Nearly all refineries are resuming operations, though production will remain curtailed for weeks to come.
Refinery capacity, oil reserves, and the mythical fuel shortages.
Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton assures the public: ”There’s plenty of gasoline.”
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received numerous incident reports of air pollution during the storm.
As the energy grid mix has changed, air quality has improved. And that has brought national savings of $30 billion to $112 billion in health costs over eight years.
Higher gasoline prices are just another consequence of the storm.
Energy companies evacuate the Gulf Coast, CenterPoint Energy has some helpful tips, a California company makes a bid on a Texas utility, and Texas officials hope to maintain strong energy ties with Mexico.
How the greatest deal maker in history got outmaneuvered in his bid for Oncor.
Association report says Permian oil production provides 45 percent of the output from the Lower 48.
The current debate is getting downright silly.
The shale boom and the end of a decades-old export ban have put the Port of Corpus Christi on the global map. Finally.
A group of lawmakers led by a Texas Congressman also sent a letter to the President.
It’s still possible to improve the three-nation economic relationship and integrate the states’ energy sectors.
As Houston plots a sustainable path forward, it’s leaving fenceline communities behind.
This new feature comes from a partnership between Microsoft and WattTime.
Plus: Rick Perry’s investment in batteries, NRG layoffs, and an interactive map of wind farms.
”The most peculiar angel” and a man of faith.
Toyota and JP Morgan Chase bring renewables, and more traffic, to Plano.
Electric grid resiliency and security are keys to a bright energy future.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry might head to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas holds on to the number one spot for energy consumption, and big oil and ranchers battle over water resources in West Texas.
More than 10 percent of the nation’s energy is consumed in Texas.
A new focus on demand-side approaches and smarter energy management.
The rigidity of the oil and gas industry makes it difficult for women to participate.
Plus: There's a "substantial increase" in reports about a Bastrop oil spill, Texas is leading the way in renewable energy, and a big bank decides to go green.
The number of spills in 2016 was the lowest Texas had seen since 2012.
Low-income Texans are particularly at risk for negative economic impacts.
The restructuring is a change from the greener direction NRG was headed in.
The 89-year-old legendary wildcatter embraces his mortality.
A Houston energy lawyer is challenging Ted Cruz, but can he woo over the senator's oil and gas benefactors?
Marfa Public Radio reports on the down side of the boom.
Could new wind energy storage change the Texas energy industry?
Warren Buffett’s big bet with Oncor.
"When we invest in Texas, we invest big!"
Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners has grand plans for national expansion.
TAMU joins a United States team focused on beefing up India's power grid.
The university’s project will focus on improving energy grids in rural Texas.
The current energy secretary was a big proponent of wind power as governor of Texas. The signs now point to a change of heart.
A judge blocked the merger that could be key to the operation's future.
Start your summer vacations early, if you can.
The move comes as work begins in West on a memorial honoring the fifteen lives lost in the 2013 disaster.
The Dallas location of Austin-based home store TreeHouse generates more energy than it uses—a first for a store of its size.
A bizarre sighting in East Texas.