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Announcing: Reading and Podcast Picks
Welcome to our first edition of Reading and Podcast Picks, where we share articles and podcasts that will keep you informed, engaged, and inspired
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Doug Lewin
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Oil and Gas in the Energy Transition with Jane Stricker
Houston Energy Transition Initiative's Jane Stricker discusses the future of energy in Houston and how some of Texas's largest oil and gas companies are…
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Doug Lewin
Texas Grid Roundup #10, April 30, 2024
CenterPoint's $2 billion resiliency plan, PUC's energy efficiency questions, ERCOT reliability standard meeting Thursday, and how EPA's new rules on…
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Is ERCOT attempting to "eighty-six" batteries?
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ERCOT Has More Questions to Answer
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A Year of the IRA in Texas: More Solar, Storage, Jobs, and Investment
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Heather Is Not Uri
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Punishment for Batteries while Gas Skates Free
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Is the Texas Power Grid Fixed Yet?
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Induced Demand: Why Highways Slow Us Down with Megan Kimble
Author Megan Kimble and I explore the past, present, and future of highways, how they create more traffic problems than they solve, and how "we have not…
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ERCOT's "New Era" of Growth Needs Clean Energy
Texas will need an all-of-the-above approach, including renewables, storage, transmission, and demand-side resources to meet high projected demand…
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Texas Grid Roundup #9, April 17, 2024
Updates on an ERCOT report showing potential for 62 gigawatts of new demand by 2030, Senate electric grid interim charges, an emerging smart thermostat…
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A Critical Window to Address Rising ERCOT Demand
Utilities' annual energy efficiency plans are stagnant; the PUC needs to strengthen those plans to increase reliability through demand flexibility and…
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A Texas Power Promise with Senator Nathan Johnson
Senator Johnson joined me to discuss all aspects of the Texas energy system and how we can build a more reliable and affordable grid
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Texas Grid Roundup #8, April 5, 2024
Updates on new dispatchable resources, movement on a controversial proposal impacting batteries and renewables, utilities' energy efficiency reports…
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ERCOT and PUC Actions Don’t Match Words on Grid Reliability
Six months after emergency conditions and near-rolling outages, ERCOT tells the PUC that storage and demand response could “very well solve the…
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Doug Lewin
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Texas Grid Roundup #7, Week of March 26, 2024
Updates on how transmission bottlenecks are causing grid reliability problems, CenterPoint’s rate case, the Performance Credit Mechanism, and a…
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CERAWeek Headlines Miss the Bigger Story
Ignore the hype, politics, and magical thinking: most of the oil and gas industry is doubling down on the energy transition, and Texas is leading the…
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