electric rates Archive
Affordability Goal Update: All Hat and No Cattle
By John Sutton and Robin Rather OCT 18, 2010.
Last Wednesday, Austin Energy "unveiled" its Affordability Goal report (Affordability Matrix Reports) at a crowded, standing room only conference room on Barton Springs Road. If you weren't able to go - we've got you covered with this debrief and outline...
Read More Austin -vs- San Antonio: Green Power SmackDown!
by Robin Rather & Mike Sloan OCT 8, 2010.
In our last post, we looked at the surprising downslide of Austin Energy relative to others in Texas in terms of both affordability and renewable energy. Here we compare AE against CPS Energy, the San Antonio municipal utility.
Green Power...
Read More Austin Energy: A Wake Up Call
by Robin Rather & Mike Sloan SEP 24, 2010.
Larry Weis, the new General Manager for Austin Energy, starts work on Monday.
What will he awake to find?
A) A utility that at the beginning of 2008 was widely recognized as the greenest, most innovative, and among the most affordable utilities...
Read More Green Power: Best Deal for Austin
By Axel Gerdau for PowerSmack.org SEP 29, 2009.
The debate over Austin’s energy future is getting louder. Energy experts and consumer rights activists are taking a firm stance against criticism voiced by predicament advocates and state legislators against Austin Energy’s generation plan proposal. Their argument: The utility should...
Read More In the Press: More Transparency Needed, Lower GreenChoice Rates Coming
by Axel Gerdau AUG 22, 2009.
This weeks cover story in the Austin Chronicle, “Twisting in the Wind – Austin Energy is all tangled up in smoke and wind mills over energy pricing”, provides a glimpse into the ongoing debate over Austin’s energy policy. Author Nora Ankrum effectively describes...
Read More Fixing Austin’s Green Rate
by Mike Sloan & Melissa Reese AUG 20, 2009.
Austin City Council voted on a substantial price reduction for the GreenChoice electric rate.
This is great news for the people of Austin.
But even if the Austin rate drops as expected, saving a typical green residential customer $38 per month, it will...
Read More “Who Brainwashed Texas on Renewable Energy?”
“Who Brainwashed Texas on Renewable Energy?”, asks John Geesman, the former Energy Commissioner of the State of California, on the eve of a grand scale lobby effort by the fossil fuel industry in Texas (see "Town Hall" for related news). The companies are urging the Senate to make business-friendly changes...
Read More Texas Electric Rates Falling, but Not in Austin
There is a common perception that municipally-owned utilities (like Austin Energy) have lower electric rates than competitive “For Profit” utilities in Texas. While that has generally been true in the past, it is not necessarily true today in light of lower fuel costs.Austin Energy’s rates are based on the TOTAL...
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