The state’s biggest electricity generator, Luminant, recently announced the closing of three coal-fired power plants in Texas, but out of the coal ashes could rise a phoenix.
A passionate critic of nuclear energy, Stanford Prof. Mark Jacobson has pulled the nuclear option in trying to use the legal system to defend a controversial paper...
The Trump Administration continues to pursue a suite of pro-coal policies of questionable wisdom and legality while energy leaders from around the world gathered in Germany to discuss...
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...
