The city owned electric utility reports almost 850 customers are without power near Interstate 35 and Riverside Drive. The outage started at 10:28 p.m., the utility reports. Power likely won’t be restored until after 4 a.m., according to Austin Energy’... »
Yessiree, we all got spring early when many plants bloomed a month ahead of schedule. But I got one last blast with this Dutch iris on April 1. Guess it wanted to fool us. Peggy Martin is not fooling around this year. She’s finally got her feet in the ... »
Author: langhugh Forum: General Rumors Posted 2 hours ago Larry/All,While I did not press the issue and ask any clarifying questions, Leslie Libby did emphasize at the last Solar Stakeholder's Meeting that everyone needed to submit this form to the cou... »
Author: schroed Forum: Everything Else Posted 22 minutes ago With all the Volts and Leafs chooglin' around the 'hood, and all the solar panels gleaming on roofs, I'm surprised no one has posted calculations like these yet. Well, our plug-in Prius is st... »
Central Texas is waking up to a deluge of rain from overnight storms that have triggered power outages for thousands of residents and road closures throughout the region. A line of storms that began moving through the region about 1 a.m. has dumped mor... »
Author: Betsy Forum: General Rumors Posted 1 hour ago Our old AE bills just showed the net kW in/out of the grid, upon which the bill was computed. The new bill shows the gross reading for the PV meter (i.e. the amount produced before the house uses so... »
The parks in Austin are lovely beacons of green… and are more vulnerable to concrete, asphalt, non-natives and trash than you might think. Thank goodness we have people like you to protect them. Yes, you! Do you think the city takes care of these thing... »
Austin Energy Green Building rated its 10,000th single-family home Friday since the program began in 1991. »
