Texas natural gas is essential for the future of hydrogen
One of the few viable alternatives to fossil fuelsOPINION: There is so much natural gas in Texas that last month, producers started paying customers to take it off their hands. Beyond driving down energy costs, this surplus could be harnessed to produce the fuel we need to decarbonize the U.S. economy: clean hydrogen, if the Biden […]
COLUMN: Beaumont a natural home for carbon capture, storage
Texas is once again leading an energy revolution. The home of Spindletop and fracking is seeing an acceleration of a transformative technology: carbon capture and storage. The process captures carbon emissions from industrial sources before they reach the atmosphere and safely stores them underground. While Texas benefits from a massive growth in clean renewable energy, […]
These clean-energy innovators are flipping stereotypes
America’s sustainable-energy revolution is happening in the places you’d least expect it—just don’t call it “green” I have a quiz to start this week’s Motor Mouth, a seemingly easy quiz given the question: Which state in America generates more greener-than-thou totally-renewable wind energy than any other? Actually, let’s make this a two-parter, ’cause the answer is […]
Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation adds Skyler Williams to Advisory Board
Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation adds
Skyler Williams to Advisory Board
Technology Executive and Cybersecurity Expert Brings Invaluable Experience
New Data Confirms Renewable Energy’s Growing Contribution to the Texas Economy
AUSTIN, TEXAS (January 19, 2024) – Renewable energy and battery energy storage projects continue to generate tens of billions of dollars in tax revenue and landowner payments while contributing significant and essential power generation resources to the electric grid, according to findings showing 2023 overall annual growth released by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation (CTEI), […]
Texas Freeze: ERCOT can do better than counting on failure-prone Gas
Texas, along with most of the country, is about to get hit with an Arctic blast that will plunge temperatures to extreme lows. But the all-too-recent memory of Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 causing rolling blackouts, hundreds of deaths, and billions in unexpected utility bills leaves Texans more worried than the rest of the […]
Carrie Simmons Joins Advisory Board Of Conservative Texans For Energy Innovation
Longtime GOP staffer and Legislative Consultant Brings Extensive Clean Energy Expertise AUSTIN, TEXAS (Dec 11, 2023) . . . Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation (CTEI) announcedtoday that Carrie Simmons has joined the organization’s Advisory Board. Simmons has deepexperience advocating for critical energy issues and has worked closely with key leaders at theCapitol as well as […]
West Texas caravan highlights growth of electric vehicles
Matt Welch, state director, Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, and Jade Gillespie Doss, director of programs, show a Hummer Electric Vehicle during a caravan of electric vehicles through West Texas. A caravan of electric vehicles of various sizes, from a school bus to a Volvo C40 and Ford Mustang Mach E came humming through Midland recently […]
Study finds no negative impact for Texas home values near utility solar projects
A new study commissioned by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation (CTEI) in partnership with the Advanced Power Alliance and the Solar Energy Industries Association shows no evidence of negative market impact for residential properties near utility-scale solar facilities. In all counties studied, the sales prices and marketing times of residential properties located near solar projects […]
Hunt Energy Network CEO: Here’s why I am optimistic about Texas’ energy future
Pat Wood III It has been a summer for the record books in Texas. On Aug. 10, we set an all-time power use peak of 85,400 megawatts — 7% higher than last year. All summer our power plants and batteries have worked well, and power users also helped out, by responding to grid operator ERCOT’s […]
