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Florida is #2 State for Electric Car Sales (Probably)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:21:36 +0000

For whatever reasons (which we can conjecture about at the end), Florida has become #2 in the country for EV sales. California is #1, of course, and has about 5× as many EV registrations as Florida, while #3 Texas is just a bit behind Florida. The most obvious these are … [continued]

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Powering Texas: How Base Power’s No-Cost Home Batteries Are Revolutionizing Energy Resilience

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:25:07 +0000

​In response to Texas’ increasing power outages and the demand for reliable home energy solutions, companies like Base Power are revolutionizing the market by offering affordable home battery systems without the hefty upfront costs. This innovative approach not only provides homeowners with backup power during outages but also contributes to … [continued]

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Renewables + Storage Make Billions Of Dollars In Texas

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:13:55 +0000

When a new Texas renewable energy report came out recently, Zach quickly wrote an article about it. I was in contact with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and wanted to query the report’s author, Professor Rhodes, from the University of Texas at Austin. Texas is the second largest US … [continued]

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Texas A&M Launches SMR ‘Energy Proving Ground’ with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]

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Artist’s rendering of Texas A&M’s ‘Energy Proving Ground’ at the RELLIS Campus, where four selected nuclear developers will advance SMR technology and testing. Courtesy: TAMU

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Xcel Says Coal-Fired Texas Plant’s Conversion to Natural Gas Nearly Complete

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Xcel Energy said the company’s coal-fired Harrington Generating Station in Amarillo, Texas should fully complete its transition to burning natural gas in May. Harrington, whose three units have 1,018 MW […]

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Solar, Wind, & Batteries Providing Texas with Tens of Billions of Dollars in Tax Revenue

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:36 +0000

There’s a growing war on renewable energy, particularly in “red” districts and states in the USA. One of the things that is often bewilderingly forgotten by those attacking renewable energy is the enormous tax revenue (and overall economic benefits) solar, wind, and battery storage projects provide. A new report focused … [continued]

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