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Texas Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program
On Wednesday, the Texas Trade Up Appliance Rebate Program will begin to dole out $23 million in rebates for the purchase of energy efficient appliances. Texans can upgrade their old, energy-wasting refrigerators and clothes washers for new Energy Star appliances. (Eligible … Continue reading
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Oil Prices and the Texas Economy: a crude measure of success?
On Thursday March 25th, Texas House Representative Mark Strama addressed Professor Webber’s ETP class. In discussing the role that Texas plays in the United States’ energy policy, he stated that there was a strong positive correlation between the price of oil … Continue reading
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What a Nodal Market Means for Texas and ERCOT
What a Nodal Wholesale Market Means for Texas and ERCOT First, before I get into Texas’ electricity market, let me first explain a little bit about the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the organization responsible for the management of … Continue reading
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Biomass: The usual and the unusual…
I think back to the class discussion in which the topic of using rabbits as a form of biomass to burn for fuel as an energy source, and thinking that that was strange to me. In Sweden of all places… … Continue reading
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