Media Coverage
Look where tomorrow's utility workforce is coming from
Liz Enbysk
SmartGridNews.com
We reported weeks back about the surprising number of smart grid jobs available right now. And we’ve been warning for some time about the labor shortage looming in the utility i
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Smart Grid Jobs Get a Boost in Texas
Laura Caseley
Earth Techling
Collin College is getting a $133,626 grant from the Texas State Energy Conservation Office to boost green jobs in the state by developing a new Smart Grid Management certification program. Working with the Texas Institute
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Mark Armentrout: The very real consequences of the EPA’s new rule
Mark Armentrout
Dallas Morning News
July 21, 2011
In early July, the Environmental Protection Agency lowered the regulatory boom on Texas.
Its new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule requires a significant reduction in nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide — two products of the direct process of creating electricity from li
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Collin College Developing New Energy Certification Course
Marthe Stinton
Star Local News
July 20, 2011
During summer months when students are soaking up the sun and using old textbooks as drink coasters, professors and faculty at Collin College are busy developing a new program.
This time, the school has received a little help from the state, allowing them to create a brand new certification program.
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EFH lost money in first quarter as electricity customers conserved
The Texas Institute's April 29 "Nuclear Power Industry in Texas" luncheon with keynote speaker David Campbell, CEO of Luminant, is discussed toward the end of the article.
Elizabeth Souder
Dallas Morning News
April 29, 2011
Dallas electric power company Energy Fut
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Electricity deregulation paying off for Texans
Mitchell SchnurmanFort Worth Star-Telegram
March 22, 2011
It has been a decade since Texas deregulated residential electricity, so how about checking the scoreboard?
Consumers are finally winning big time. In competitive markets, they have plenty of power and plenty of options, at prices far lower than when dereg began.
In North Texas, it's easy to fin
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North Texas Anticipates Smart Grid Opportunities
Wendy Lyons SunshineFort Worth Business Press
March 18, 2011
Smart grids will bring opportunities and challenges over the coming years, said a panel of experts speaking at a luncheon on March 9 hosted by the Texas Institute for Sustainable Technology Research in Richardson. With North Texas' rich history in energy, telecommunications and information technology, the experts bel
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Texas power grid’s backup plants failed during winter storm
Elizabeth Souder,S.C. Gwynne, and Gary JacobsonDallas Morning News
February 27, 2011
Calpine Corp is a power generation company built for days like Feb. 2, when the winter storm knocked out power plants across Texas and left consumers in the dark.
The Houston generator has a fleet of natural gas-fired plants that can ramp up quickly to meet an emergency. But o
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Texas Institute forms energy policy group at UT-Dallas
By Robert Francis
Fort Worth Business Press
January 31, 2011
The Texas Institute, a nonprofit research group, has established a Center for Energy Policy and Markets to advance energy policy and science based at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The mission of the Center is to promote the development of informed, balanced public policy choices by educating
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Energy industry veterans form policy institute based at UT-Dallas
Photo: Courtney Perry/Staff PhotographerThree Texas energy insiders have formed a new policy institute designed to offer independent advice based on the state’s electricity experiments.
Monty Humble, a lobbyist who pus
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North Texas Companies Go For Green
By Karen Nielsen
D CEO Special Report DFW Technology 2011
January 4, 2011
When David Welch co-founded Optisense Network Inc. nine years ago, he knew the road ahead would be winding. His future utility customers wouldn’t take kindly to seat-of-the-pants ideas without proven results.
Ten patents later, millions of dollars of investments and years of trials
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Big savings for Texas city with energy monitoring sensors
By Lindsay Gsell
Department of Energy
August 19, 2010
- 7 public buildings in Richardson to utilize real-time energy monitoring system
- City spent $150,000 of $1 million in EECBG funds to install monitoring system
- Texas city could save up to $300,000 per year after all EECBG projects are completed
With more than $1
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New sustainable technology group gathers area support
By Elizabeth Bassett
Fort Worth Business Press
February 01, 2010
Research leaders, business executives and elected officials from Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas came together Jan. 28 to pledge their support for the new Texas Institute for Sustainable Technology Research.
The institute, which was launched with a press conference in Dallas, is the brainchild
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New Texas Institute seeks to merge N Texas brain power
By Elizabeth Souder/Reporter
Dallas Morning News
January 28, 2010
A new nonprofit energy research institute seeks to bring together the brain power of academic researchers across North Texas.
The Texas Institute, which will focus on sustainable technology such as advanced electricity meters, kicked off on Thursday with a shindig including speeches by the
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