Author name: Michael Giberson

Undergraduate Energy Business Program at Houston Recognized by Business Week

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Michael Giberson In its annual ranking of business schools, Business Week takes a look at a few programs that distinguish themselves by offering an industry focus. At Florida State University for example, graduates from the Professional Golf Management program are in high demand. In Texas, universities naturally feature the state’s energy industry, and Business Week …

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Firm Planning a Coal-fired Power Plant Hopes for Federal Greenhouse Gas Law

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Michael Giberson Allegedly the politics of climate change policy is pretty simple in the electric power industry: on the one side you have hydro, nuclear, and renewables, and on the other you have oil, gas, and coal. A company planning a coal-fired generating plant just outside of Sweetwater, Texas is an exception to this simple …

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Meanwhile, in Texas, a Brief Lull in the Wind

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Michael Giberson On Tuesday this week, while Florida transmission operators were getting everyone back online after a sub-station fire lead to cascading outages around the state, in Texas grid operators were responding to an emergency of their own. A sudden drop off in the West Texas wind produced an almost as sudden drop in wind …

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Texas Does Carbon Big, and That’s Not All…

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Michael Giberson … Texas does the non-carbon thing in a pretty big way, too. Tom Fowler, at NewsWatch: Energy, pulls together some numbers. Among his points (edited and slightly rearranged): Texas leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions; and If Texas were a country, it would rank seventh in the world in greenhouse gas emissions. …

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Can Arizona Become the “Persian Gulf of Solar Energy”?

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Michael Giberson Spanish company Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company have announced plans to build a large solar powered electric generator, to come online in 2011, but like many such announcements it comes with a couple of public-policy related “ifs”; they’ll build it if they get the necessary approvals from the Arizona utility regulator, …

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Texas Wind Power: Gets by with a Little Help from Tax Credits

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Michael Giberson Out in west Texas you can still see the occasional old-style wind mill on a farm or ranch, dutifully pumping up water when the wind blows. A much more common sight these days is the new, sleek wind power generator. A combination of good fundamentals for wind power, federal tax credits, state renewable …

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