It’s where you might go for pool noodles, school supplies and perhaps just people-watching. But the retail behemoth Walmart is also becoming known as a green energy company. On Monday, Walmart unveiled its 100th solar panel array for a store in San Diego. The company has the goal of using 100 percent renewable energy to […]
It’s a heavy question: Where is all of our energy going to come from? That puzzle is at the center of a new film and education project, ‘Switch.’
Watch In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. If you’re a Texan interested in green building, smart grids and solar panels, there’s probably no better place to see them in action than the Pecan Street Research Institute in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood. That neighborhood, just northeast of downtown Austin, is […]
Texas has lots of ambition. Some Texans strive to open the world’s largest convenience store. But of more interest to us is another goal: the state wants to have10,000 megawatts of the power in its portfolio come from renewable energy by 2025. And according a new report by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state continues […]
We all use electricity – but what systems are in place to make sure it’s there when we need it? How does the whole grid work in the first place? Those are questions examined in the latest episode of a new series on PBS called America Revealed, which aims to peel back the layers of […]
Power moves Texas, but does the state have enough juice to make it through another blistering summer? The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, discusses new power generation, conservation, alternative energy, weather and oversight at a Texas Senate hearing today.
We recently asked the Under Secretary of the Army about what the military’s doing when it comes to renewable research.
Has it seemed windy to you lately? Because this week the Texas grid set a new record for wind power generation.
A graduate student at the University of Texas has come up with a model that may help Texas overcome both its water and electricity problems in one fell swoop.
While the show is an affectionate look at the past, it may actually tell us something about the future of energy and the best way to adapt to it.
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