GreenChoice 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 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 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 Austin is Overcharging for Green Power
As chairman of the City task force that planned Austin’s green power program in 1997, it was with keen interest I read two Statesman articles during the past week suggesting that Wind Power is too expensive for Austin.
The current lack of sales is simple: as you point out, GreenChoice is...
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