Posted on · The Texas House and Senate both approved negotiated versions of Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3, the two sweeping bills to change the state’s power grid and the people who oversee it.
Posted on · Episode: 1884 Avery’s turbine: Important, but little-known, nineteenth-century precursor. Today, Avery’s turbine.
Posted on · Oil companies already use captured carbon to produce more oil from old fields, a process called "enhanced oil recovery."
Posted on · A new study says sulfur dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant coming from Texas coal plants.
Posted on · The EPA argues the Obama Administration inflated the benefits of the rule.
Posted on · Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum. Today, we invent vacuum.
Posted on · The state is breaking records for electricity use at a time when power reserves have dropped.
Posted on · About 850 jobs are being lost from the plants shutting down.
Posted on · Episode: 2713 Storing energy for the power grid. Today, power.
Posted on · The new plan gives Texas power plants alternatives to installing costly emissions controls
Posted on · "Rhetoric's one thing, money’s another," said one energy researcher
Posted on · The agency plans to let Texas power plants pursue "alternatives" to retrofitting plants with emission controls
Posted on · Episode: 1336 In which Diesel engines violate their own metaphor. Today, a new breed of Diesel engines fights an old metaphor.
Posted on · The study looked at what would happen if Dallas company Luminant closed its Big Brown and Monticello power plants.
Posted on · Some industry analysts are calling coal a "zombie industry" – meaning it's dying but still functioning. So far in 2016, U.S. coal production is 32 percent lower than it was a year ago, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Meanwhile, a new study says Texans are shifting away from relying on energy […]