What a change!
By Howard ‘Scot’ Arey TXSES Board Chair When I first became involved with TXSES nearly a decade ago, the biggest challenge was solar adoption by the mainstream. Today, the debate is on how much solar will be integrated to the Texas / ERCOT grid. We know the right answer – let Texas entrepreneurs and innovators […]
Texas has many natural fuel resources – let’s use them all in ERCOT!
TXSES Board Chair Scot Arey suggests Texans win when all energy sources are available.
All-of-Texas Energy Approach
President Biden announced that the U.S. will cease to import Russian oil. Simultaneously, Ukraine is set to join the European energy system in a further step to lessen its dependence on Russian oil and gas.
2022 on the Horizon: Creative Cooperation, Lasting Solutions
Another year draws to a close, and even in these trying times of inflation and supply chain concerns, we have much to be thankful for. With energy inflation a substantive part of our household expenses, Texans are adapting and installing solar at a pace like never before. Solar continues to be installed at record levels […]
Chair’s Corner: Forging Smart Distributed Solar Policies in Texas: Our Work Continues
There is a train wreck coming for behind-the-meter distributed solar and it’s our responsibility to fix it. Even after the positive outcome from the policy debate with the Pedernales Electric Cooperative, we are entering another phase of tough-policy whack-a-mole. This will be harder to resolve for the benefit of solar owners because it’s against the […]
TXSES Leads the Way to Keep PEC the Best Place to be a Solar Homeowner
Back in April, I shared with you what was happening at the Pedernales Electric Cooperative. Its anti-solar policies, approved in December 2020, level a direct blow to both already-installed and future customer-owned solar in its service territory. These your-side-of-the-meter solar policies will transform PEC from being inarguably one of Texas’s most supportive distributed solar proponents […]
Penalizing Solar Homeowners Is Not Good Public Policy
By Howard ‘Scot’ Arey Potential anti-solar policies at the Pedernales Electric Coop (PEC) threaten to derail future distributed solar in PEC’s service territory, the rural electric cooperative that serves more meters than any other U.S. co-op. With a little less than eight weeks until sine die, May 31, 2021, the Texas legislature is still debating […]
Moving forward; not looking backward
I thought my first Solar Reflector article would focus on why I returned to TXSES. I felt an urgency to speak out against under-the-radar attacks on solar on the customer side of the meter; how we need to stop policy roadblocks that are under construction in Texas. That alone would have been a worthwhile goal. […]