Report: Austin Energy's Residential Electricity Use Up 30% In Past Month
Citing data provided by Austin Energy, Community Impact Newspaper reports that total residential electricity usage at the municipal utility has risen...
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Austin Energy Customers Facing Rate Hike Due To Plant Outages, Lack Of Wind During ERCOT Scarcity
Austin Energy customers are facing a rate hike due to the municipal utility having to rely on market purchases during peak ERCOT prices earlier this m...
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Statesman: Austin Energy Customers Still Deserve Answers On Biomass Plant
The Austin American-Statesman published an editorial concerning Austin Energy's previously reported agreement to acquire a biomass power plant with wh...
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Austin Energy Buys Biomass Power Plant With Which It Has Above-Market PPA
Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the Nacogdoc...
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Texas Bills Address Austin Energy Rate Setting, Wholesale Activities
Bill SB 1100 has been introduced to the Texas legislature to allow certain customers at Austin Energy to appeal to petition Texas PUC to review their...
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Report Recommends Retiring Certain Austin Energy Generating Units
According to a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman, a report from a working group on affordability at Austin Energy has recommended:...
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Bill Again Filed To Allow Large C&Is to Take Customer Choice At Austin Energy
Texas State Rep. Paul Workman has again filed a bill (HB 1460) that would allow large C&I customers to take electric choice at Austin Energy, unde...
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Muni Austin Energy May Have Charged Inapplicable Tax For Decade; Only Giving Refunds For 4 Years
KXAN reports that Austin Energy's previously reported incorrect application of a tax for certain residents of Williamson County, from whom the municip...
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Muni Austin Energy Has Incorrectly Charged Tax To Non-City Ratepayers For Four Years
Austin Energy, for four years, has erroneously imposed a metro sales tax on about 6,000 residential ratepayers in an unincorporated part of Williamson...
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#NotOnlyREPs: Austin Energy Rate Settlement Criticized For Penalizing Customers For Conserving Power
A rate settlement at muni Austin Energy is being criticized by some stakeholders for changes in its tiered rate structure under which rates paid by al...
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Report: Austin Energy Customers Would Save $200 Million Through Electric Choice
TexasInsider.org reports that, citing pleadings in an Austin Energy rate case, "[i]f there was competitive choice in Austin, retail ratepayers would p...
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Report: Texas Muni’s Alternative Rate Pilots Fail To Attract Customers
The Austin Monitor reports that pilots launched by Austin Energy allowing customers to take Time of Use rates and take special EV rates have not attra...
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Report: "Most" Candidates for Austin-Area Senate Seat Would Support Deregulation of Austin Energy
In an editorial making a Republican primary endorsement for Texas Senate District 24, which includes parts of Travis County and surrounding areas whic...
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Workman: Austin’s Solar Power Buys Are Political & Increase Rates for Austin Energy Customers
Texas State Rep. Paul Workman has published another op-ed, this one published on TexasInsider.org, lamenting Austin Energy's high rates, driven by...
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Austin Energy to Council: Cut Commercial Customers’ Rates
The Austin Monitor reports on Austin Energy's proposed rate changes that would see commercial electric rates reduced
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