Posted on · The proposed sale includes areas offshore Lake Charles, Louisiana and Galveston, Texas, for roughly 3.6 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.3 million homes.
Posted on · The area covers 546,645 acres, which could produce enough energy to power 2.3 million homes.
Posted on · Natural gas was in short supply during the blackouts and could be sold at a premium. With no market controls, gas increased hundreds of times its normal value.
Posted on · Patrick also echoed misleading claims by Gov. Greg Abbott that outages in renewable energy were primarily to blame for last week’s blackouts.
Posted on · Texas is the largest consumer of coal in the country, but cheap natural gas and renewable energy prices are biting into coal's market share.
Posted on · Texas is home to about a quarter of all wind power capacity in the country, as capacity nationwide increased by 8 percent in 2018.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: The role of Texas in the wind industry, reflections on working with Elie Wiesel, former NFL player Martellus Bennett's storytelling initiatives, and the effect of Project Row Houses on the Third Ward.
Posted on · We explore a new method of harnessing offshore wind energy and the different challenges between onshore and offshore wind farming and what it would take to see such farms off the Gulf Coast.
Posted on · The Houston consulate will serve the southwestern United States
Posted on · Houston's Clean Line Energy has turned to a former Missouri governor to argue before that state's supreme court on behalf of a $2.3 billion wind energy transmission project.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: We learn about a Houston-based project to transmit wind energy across the Midwest. Then, we learn about standards for sanitation at health clinics. Plus, we discuss the effectiveness of protesting. And Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz talks about his children's book, Islandborn.
Posted on · The state's former governor is lobbying to extend a hand to the nation's struggling coal and nuclear industries
Posted on · Wind farms near Corpus Christi made it through the storm intact, despite 100 MPH gusts.
Posted on · The envisioned "radical" future still includes plenty of oil and gas.
Posted on · What happens to workers when an industry collapses or a new technology takes off? NPR brings you stories of people adapting to a changing economy. This week: a former cowboy in the wind industry.