As Rooftop Solar Grows, What Should the Future of Net Metering Look Like?
Almost every state has been weighing changes to how homes with solar are compensated for electricity they send to the grid. The results will impact solar growth. Dan Gearino BY DAN GEARINO Like solar installers across much of America, Mark Hagerty is adapting to drastic changes in the economics of his business. His state, Michigan, […]
Natural Gas Cleaning Up The Power Sector
Power generators have turned to cheaper natural gas over coal in an effort to lower emissions, but cleaner forms of energy are expected to make a move on natural gas. By Frank Nieto As seen on HartEnergy.Com on 4/25/2019 For years one of the biggest goals for the natural gas industry has been toppling coal […]
A New Green Deal — Investing In The Energy Transition
As seen on Forbes.com on April 24th, 2019 ByJoel Moser Investment in the energy transition has grown up; no longer occupying the small socially responsible corner of Wall Street, it has become a central market-based destination for capital all along the risk spectrum, from infrastructure to private equity to venture, as new and improved technologies […]
Capitalism is the best force to fight climate change
BY NICK LINDQUIST, OPINION CONTRIBUTORAmidst talks of a Green New Deal, the Paris Climate Accord, groups calling for government-led action, and more, there is a lot of public confusion surrounding environmental issues today. Though Democrats have always advocated for many of these things, 2020 candidates clambering for the spotlight have begun to embrace giant plans […]
Competition Puts Consumers in Driver’s Seat in Race to Modernize Electricity
BY ROBERT DILLON As published in the Morning Consult HERE Competition is a core value of the American free-market system. Competitive markets produce the most efficient results in our economy, providing lower costs and a greater array of choices for consumers than government regulators. That was true in the 1980s with the deregulation of the telecom […]
We Support the Consumer Self Reliance in Electricity Act – HB 2860
Texans are investing more and more in technology to manage their energy consumption, including electric generation and storage resources. These investments are made at their own expense and on their own property. However, over the past few years, customers have been told by various governing authorities that they aren’t allowed to install this equipment, […]
Conservatives continue to lead the way on clean energy issues
by Kevin Brannon and Matt Welch Successful clean energy efforts in Texas have largely been and will continue to be the result of strong conservative Republican leadership. In 1999, while still Governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed legislation that deregulated the state’s power market and set the state on a path to becoming a […]
Poll: Republican and Independent Texans Strongly Support Responsible Clean Energy Solutions
Veteran Republicans launch new effort to bolster conservative clean energy policy AUSTIN, Texas (March 7, 2019) . . . In a poll released today by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation (CTEI), Republican and Independent voters across the state expressed their overwhelming support for policies that encourage responsible clean energy solutions rooted in innovation, not government […]
Distribution-Scale Solar Goes Big in Texas
February 22, 2018 | By Dan Seif Texas has long been known as the capital of oil and gas. And over the past decade it added so much wind power that if Texas were a country, it would be the world’s fourth-largest wind producer. Looking back at the past few years, a fourth energy trend […]
