UT Energy Journalism Fellow covers controversy surrounding Texas-based solar market provider in Puerto Rico

March 29, 2019
UT Journalism Fellow Eliván Martinez Mercado made front-page news recently...

Public vs. Private: the debate over Puerto Rico’s new electric grid rages on

Feb. 27, 2019
Eliván Martínez Mercado, an investigative journalist based in Puerto Rico and a 2019 UT Energy Journalism Fellow, is working on a new book...

2019 UT Energy Journalism Fellowships announced

Dec. 19, 2018
The Energy Institute has awarded the 2019 Fellowship to two outstanding reporters, Eliván Martínez Mercado and Asher Price...

US Energy Watching As Mexico Documents Rising Theft From Pipelines

Oct. 27, 2017
American energy companies are looking to enter Mexico's oil, natural gas and electricity markets which have been open since 2014 to foreign participation for the first time since 1938...

U.S.-Owned Factories In Mexico Embrace Prospect Of NAFTA Change

Aug. 9, 2017
REYNOSA, Mexico – American-owned assembly-line factories known as maquilas that line the Mexican side of the border with the U.S. have been bracing for change since the election of Donald Trump, but...

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...

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...

Borderland Exodus: Mexican Energy Development Spurs Depopulation Near Path Of Proposed Mexican Pipelines

April 12, 2017
ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, has published an article by 2016-2017 UT Energy Journalism Fellow Lorne Matalon...

Mexico’s Energy Reform And Pemex: Both Face Challenge As U.S. Energy Sector Watches

Feb. 24, 2017
MEXICO CITY—President Donald Trump has said he will renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada. That has a lot of businesses that do cross border trade concerned.