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Bureau of Economic Geology launches EarthDate radio program

May 31, 2017
UT Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology has created a new radio program – EarthDate – that introduces listeners to many of the planet’s intricate geologic and atmospheric workings and complexities...

Center for Energy Economics releases report on the future of competitive electricity markets

May 31, 2017
UT Austin’s Center for Energy Economics has undertaken a holistic, multi‐jurisdictional analysis of the U.S electric power industry in a period of transformative change...

LBJ School, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute launch low-income profile research project

May 31, 2017
LBJ School of Public Affairs Professor Dr. Heath Prince will lead a team of graduate students in a new Public Research Project sponsored by the Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI)...

Mexico Energy Reform Spurs Larger Scale Cross-Border Electricity Transmission

May 25, 2017
MEXICO CITY—The dream of a unified North American electricity grid could not have been contemplated until Mexico’s electricity market was opened to foreign companies in 2014...

The Beginning of the End for Electric Utilities’ Traditional Business Model

May 25, 2017
Due to a variety of factors largely outside of their control, the traditional business model for the nation’s investor-owned electric utilities is in trouble. Deep trouble...

UT Energy Journalism Fellow Lorne Matalon published in Revista, the Harvard Review of Latin America

May 4, 2017
UT Energy Journalism Fellow Lorne Matalon has published an article in ReVista, the prestigious Harvard Review of Latin America, on an under-reported and controversial aspect of Mexico’s energy reform program...

UT Energy Poll shows support for Trump to revive U.S. coal industry

May 4, 2017
Nearly half of Americans want President Donald Trump to take actions to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, despite strong market signals that coal will continue to be displaced by cheaper and cleaner forms...

State program gives away tax dollars that could have been used for community public services

May 4, 2017
New research from UT Austin Government Department Prof. Nathan Jensen reveals that billions of dollars in tax abatements awarded to companies as an incentive to move to Texas have resulted in no...

New research shows U.S. nuclear power reactors are at a crossroads

May 4, 2017
Forces disrupting electric power markets are under the microscope in an analysis conducted by the Center for Energy Economics (CEE) as part of its Electric Power Research Forum...

Nanogrids, microgrids & big data: the future of the power grid

May 4, 2017
Research Professor Bob Hebner argues that the advent of distributed generation and automated transactions will change how we produce and consume electricity in a new paper published by IEEE Spectrum...