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Cool Austin, Cool Planet
This Earth Day, the ambitious Austin Climate Protection Plan celebrates a first year of slow, quiet, but impressive progress
"...hopes to be buying plug-in hybrids by 2010. (Austin Energy's Plug-In Part­ners campaign has helped to create the market..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin Climate Protection Plan Year One Highlights
A progress report on Austin's war on global warming
"...Action Item: Secure new wind power and other renewable-energy contracts, sufficient to 100% power all city facilities by..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature

Profitable, but Clean
AE's Duncan pushes for new power paradigm
"...conference's program and materials that last week's Austin Clean Energy Venture Summit was no business-as-usual venture capital conference. Indeed,..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

How Green Is the Music?
Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony
"...he's also well aware of the "ridiculous consumption of energy" required to tour...."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Enviro-Rentalism
Saving the planet when you don't even own your own (low-flow) pot to piss in
"...Austinites are renters, making some of the most important energy-saving activities (and city rebates) inaccessible. Moreover, rental properties are..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Why Has Austin's Solar Program Stalled?
Activists think the city has put sun power in the shade
"...continue to call for immediate funding increases to Austin Energy's solar program, which got identical funding to last year's..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Cleaning Up Economic Development
Greens and the Chamber of Commerce join hands for renewable energy in Austin
"...of Commerce announced a plan to create a Clean Energy Development Council, a project financially endorsed by the City..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City
Wind power is creating a huge buzz in Texas; but will the honeymoon last?
"...Last week, Austin Energy tripled the size of its contract with a local..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Austin’s Steady Strides Toward Climate Sustainability
How are we doing and how effective can local policies be at mitigating a worldwide crisis?
"...coal-burning Fayette Power Project be finally closed by Austin Energy and the Lower Colorado River Authority; 3) that the..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Total Utility
The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny
"...vision of what it would take to save Austin Energy...."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Then There's This: Excuse My Biomass
Revisiting the city's decision to hook up with a chip-burning plant
"...for the first time this summer, officially joining Austin Energy's alternative energy portfolio of solar and wind power...."

April 6, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Pecan Street Project
The Department of Energy awards 32 grants nationwide for energy research – PSP a winner
"...grant announced last week by the U.S. Depart­ment of Energy, which will underwrite an "advanced smart grid project" in..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Feature by Michael King

Climate, Meet Mobility
Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too
"...saw it everywhere: on bill­board advertising, in my hotel's energy-conserving policies, in the local newspapers...."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?
This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear
"...heads toward council in May, detailing city and Austin Energy progress in implementing the plan and program, it's timely..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Biomass: A Question of Wood, Not Could
Council will vote this week on a proposed wood-waste-fueled power plant, but just because it's carbon-neutral doesn't mean it's perfect
"...Austin Energy thinks the time for biomass is now. City Council..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Cool City: My Big Fat Carbon Footprint
One reporter's liberating steps toward energy efficiency
"...compact fluorescent lightbulb, the newfangled squiggly kind that saves energy. Reporting on the launch of the Austin Climate Protection..."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin Says, 'No, Thanks,' to Investing in New Nukes
City's decision based on an 'apolitical' financial risk analysis, Wynn says
"...New Jersey-based NRG Energy to the city of Austin: Yo, Austin, we know..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City
"...the heels of Sunday's anti-coal demonstration, emerging nonprofit Renewable Energy Institute announced Monday that Austin will be the site..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Get It While It's Green
City pimps out limited supply of clean energy
"...Austin Energy customers calling to sign up for the utility's GreenChoice..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City
Market for renewable energy continues to grow
"...Austin-based Green Mountain Energy Company, which provides 600,000 customers nationwide with renewable electricity..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Austin @ Large: Money and Power
Where Austin's city budget is concerned, the two really do go together
"...councils – the city's complete financial dependence on Austin Energy, which pays for everything, and we do mean everything,..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City
Austin Energy gives clean-energy advocates what they want -- and far more.
"...from its public position just a week ago, Austin Energy has announced plans to adopt specific, highly ambitious, and..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Keeping Busy
Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment
"...goal set by City Council with passage of Austin Energy's 2020 generation plan in 2011...."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Then There's This: Consumer Report
What apartment tenants should know before they sign a lease
"...going the way some people envisioned, but a new energy-efficiency disclosure program – perhaps the first of its kind..."

June 8, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Timing Is Everything
Events in Japan cast a long shadow
"...– which have hinged on whether utilities like Austin Energy would choose to take part – have now been..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

State of the City
Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his state of the city address at a Real Estate Council of Austin luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 2
"...battles over huge issues like health care reform and energy policy. Here in Texas, we have a state education..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature

PUC Gathering the Western Wind
A new source for electricity is on the wind
"...nation's No. 1 wind-producing state, while supplying enough new energy to power roughly 4.6 million homes. Advocates say the..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

ACPP Update
Municipal & Utility Progress
"...goal is to power all city facilities with renewable energy by 2012...."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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

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