energy
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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.
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This Week in Texas Energy: New Concerns About Grid Reliability
Plus: Rick Perry’s investment in batteries, NRG layoffs, and an interactive map of wind farms.
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Gas Prices Are at a Twelve-Year Low Throughout Texas, But Don’t Count on it to Last
Start your summer vacations early, if you can.
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Dallas Is The Home Of The World’s First Energy-Positive Big Box Store
The Dallas location of Austin-based home store TreeHouse generates more energy than it uses—a first for a store of its size.
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The UT Researcher Who Helped Create The Lithium-Ion Battery Has A New Invention
John Goodenough’s new battery could change cars, phones, and more.
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Native Americans Continue The Fight To Stop The Trans-Pecos Pipeline In West Texas
Using the Dakota Access Pipeline as a blueprint, Native Americans and other activists have brought protests to West Texas.
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Texas Has Banned Fracking Bans
Well then.
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Georgetown Is the First City in Texas to Be Powered Entirely by Renewable Energy—But Not for the Reasons You’d Think
The conservative interim city manager just made Georgetown one of the first cities in the U.S. to be entirely renewable. The reasons why he did it are reasons even Ted Cruz could get behind.
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Learning to Roughneck
Growing up in the Permian Basin, I thought I had a sense of what it was like working the oilfields. Turns out I didn’t know a damn thing.
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What Other Texas Municipalities Are Considering New Fracking Laws?
Denton's fracking ban is facing constitutional challenges, but other parts of the state are keen to enforce laws of their own against fracking.