Using data from the Energy Institute’s 2016 Full Cost of Electricity Study, we estimate the levelized carbon intensity for 12 different fuel and technology combinations...
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.
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...
Recently announced coal-fired power plant retirements and planned wind capacity additions will likely mean the total annual amount of electricity produced by wind in Texas’ wholesale will surpass...
A $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences to launch...
More than two dozen reporters from across the country who regularly cover energy and environmental issues attended the second annual UT Energy Journalism Workshop...
UT Austin held its third Campus Sustainability Week October 23 – 27, featuring visits to green buildings, a tour of the university’s energy highly efficient power plant system...
Texas and Florida residents who receive disaster-recovery checks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurance companies in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma...
While there are legitimate questions about how competitive markets will ensure a reliable supply of electricity, a proposed rule to subsidize coal-fired power plants that are struggling...
New coal retirements recently announced by Dallas-based Luminant means Texas’ wholesale electricity market will soon lose significant coal generation capacity, writes Joshua Rhodes...
