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Location, location: how an increase in EVs might affect electricity demand and consumption depends on where you drive

Dec. 19, 2018
In a new op-ed published by The Conversation, UT Austin researchers Todd Davidson, Josh Rhodes, Dave Tuttle and Kazunori Nagasawa explore...

UT students tour electric grid control center

May 24, 2018
UT Austin students studying the rapidly changing world of energy were provided a rare glimpse of the Texas power grid’s central nervous system...

Walking away from competition and lower electricity prices

Nov. 1, 2017
Subsidizing coal and nuclear plants, as has been proposed by the Trump Administration’s Department of Energy (DoE), will only increase costs and fail to improve reliability.

West Texas Talk: Dr Todd Davidson & Dr Joshua Rhodes Of UT Austin’s Energy Institute

Sept. 8, 2017
On this segment of NPR's West Texas Talk, Lorne Matalon speaks with Dr Todd Davidson and Dr Joshua Rhodes, energy scientists based at the University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute...

Op-Ed: time has come to dispense with the ‘war’ on coal and find innovations to reinvent a valuable industry

March 31, 2017
The U.S. coal industry needs to develop a collaborative approach with government to reinvent itself...

City hoping to buy a Tesla battery the size of two 18-wheeler containers

Sept. 30, 2015

Energy Institute Research Fellow Dave Tuttle was featured on FOX News / Austin.