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Tag Archives: Electric Utility Commission
Reporter's Notebook: Use your judgment
Judge judging the judge… It seems not everyone is a fan of County Judge Sarah Eckhardt’s iron-fisted management of Travis County Commissioners Court meetings. Her refusal last week to allow Commissioner Jeff Travillion to interject a question in the middle…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 24, 2017
Austin Energy rebate to help renters
The Electric Utility Commission approved a rebate for the Lodge at Stone Oak Ranch apartment complex on April 17. The rebate, requested by Austin Energy, is meant to help fund energy-efficiency improvements at the complex. The proposed rebate is one…
Energy • By Sommer Brugal • Apr 19, 2017
Austin Energy struggles to fill vacancies with outdated hiring process
Facing a wave of retirement over the next three to five years, Austin Energy urgently needs to revamp its hiring approach, staff told the Electric Utility Commission at its March 20 meeting. “We do very passive recruiting here,” said Chief…
Energy • By Joseph Caterine • Mar 27, 2017
Holly Power Plant to be officially decommissioned in August, staff reports
Remnants of the Holly Street Power Plant still stand in East Austin, bitter reminders of a facility that spread pollution to nearby residents, but Austin Energy staff assured the Electric Utility Commission at its March 20 meeting that the decommissioning…
Energy • By Joseph Caterine • Mar 21, 2017
New city contract: 'death knell' for private dumpster services?
Bob Gregory, CEO of Texas Disposal Systems, and his son Adam Gregory sounded the alarm at Monday’s Electric Utility Commission meeting concerning the pending authorization of a 36-month city contract with Republic Services, or another qualified bidder, to provide dumpster…
Resources • By Joseph Caterine • Nov 16, 2016
Task force to update Austin Energy's environmental plans
Austin Energy is gearing up for another update to the “Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2025,” the document first approved by City Council in 2007 that outlines how the city-owned utility intends to change in the…
Energy • By Jack Craver • Nov 8, 2016
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City on course to add 330 electric vehicles by 2020
The city of Austin’s vehicle fleet appears likely to see a large infusion of electric vehicles in the coming years, as part of the city’s goal to become carbon neutral by 2050. The target of Austin Energy and the fleet…
City Hall • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 22, 2016
AE proposes raising residential service charge
The independent consumer advocate that the city hired to represent the interests of Austin residents and small businesses as it reviews electricity rates is crying foul. John Coffman, who heads the advocate team, accuses Austin Energy, the city-owned utility, of…
Energy • By Jack Craver • Jun 22, 2016
Updated: Austin Energy puts new gas plant on hold
Austin Energy has put a hold on plans to construct a massive new natural gas plant, to the delight of environmental activists. The utility has determined that the estimated $500 million investment in a new plant would likely be a…
Energy • By Jack Craver • May 24, 2016
Consumer advocate: Austin Energy should lower rates for residents
Austin Energy should lower electricity rates for average Austinites, says the independent consumer advocate hired by the city to respond to the rates proposed by the city-owned utility. In testimony Monday to the Electric Utility Commission, Clarence Johnson, the expert…
Energy • By Jack Craver • May 19, 2016
Controversial pilot energy programs don't make it far
Austin Energy planned to run three pilot programs this year aimed at finding new ways for the city’s ratepayers to pay for electricity, but so far those programs haven’t gained much traction. One of the programs was designed to test…
Energy • By Jack Craver • Apr 20, 2016
Austin Energy has wire problems
Austin Energy’s poles are overcrowding. Providers of telephone, cable and internet services have a right under state law to attach their wires to city-owned utility poles (at a nominal $10 fee), but a dramatic increase in the number of attachments…
