Austin, Texas, will be closer to meeting its goal of 30 percent renewable energy once a biomass facility from Southern Power comes into play.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, recently acquired a not-yet-constructed biomass facility from American Renewables LLC. The facility is being built in Sacul, Texas.
Southern Power plans to spend $475 million [...]

AUSTIN, TEXAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Between 2003 and 2006, the oil and gas industry’s workplace fatality rate was seven times higher than the fatality rate in other industries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Texas recorded the most fatalities with 53, followed by Louisiana with 49.
To help employers keep their employees safe and on the [...]

In a changing environmental climate, Rowlett leaders are looking at revising the development code to keep up with advances in energy technology.
The Rowlett City Council discussed updating the Rowlett Development Code to regulate wind energy devices within the city. The code, which was adopted in 2006, does not address that type of technology.
“The industry is [...]

AUSTIN — Solar energy could have a brighter future under a Texas Senate-passed bill that would invest half a billion dollars into the industry over the next five years.
The investment would come through rebates for solar installations, from homeowners’ rooftop panels to large-scale projects envisioned for West Texas. The bill, passed by a vote of [...]

LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas leads the nation in wind power, and now a group advocating for solar energy is pushing for the state to tap into its sunshine.
California-based Vote Solar Initiative took out classified ads in several Texas newspapers Tuesday, claiming solar energy could create 45,000 to 90,000 jobs across the state for electricians [...]

AUSTIN, TX, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE-Alt:UEC; the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company has received an independent National Instrument 43-101 technical report for the Nichols Project, Karnes County, Texas, that estimates an inferred mineral resource of approximately 900,000 tons of eU3O8, at an average grade of 0.07% or 1,307,000 [...]

By Jerry Daniel Reed
City, state urged to focus on renewable power resources
By Jerry Daniel Reed
Special to the Reporter-News
A renewable energy advocate on Tuesday pitched for Texas to claim the state’s place in the sun by pushing solar energy development and energy efficiency.
Caitlin Seeley, Abilene field organizer for the advocacy group Environment Texas, outlined the [...]

AUSTIN, Texas—As part of a broad international effort to eliminate the testing of nuclear weapons, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin were awarded $511,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to research better methods for monitoring and detecting covert nuclear tests.
Associate Professor Steven Biegalski and Assistant Professor Mark Deinert, [...]