Energy

The Environmental Education Center in Plano is one of the stops on the seventh annual DFW Solar Tour on Oct. 1.

Sept. 27, 2016 

How do solar energy, wind energy, energy efficiency and a variety of other sustainable technologies save money for the typical homeowner while consuming less of our natural resources?

You can find answers to those questions and more at the upcoming DFW Solar Tour, hosted by North Texas Renewable Energy Group on Oct. 1. The event is free.

The Dallas Sierra Club hosts the second Earth, Wind & Fire Energy Summit at the Addison Conference Center on Oct. 22-23.

Sept. 26, 2016 

Aug. 30, 2016

Who says you can’t combine luxury and eco-friendly elements in the same sentence these days? The folks at the Texas Auto Writers Association gave a nod to that winning combination a few weeks ago in Fort Worth at the group’s Spring Auto Roundup at Texas Motor Speedway. The organization handed out the 2016 Green Vehicle of Texas Award to the 2016 Lexus RX 450h.

Kaylen Holmesly, a 7th grade resident of Azle, Texas, testifies before the Texas Railroad Commission and voiced her concern about an increased number of earthquakes around Eagle Mountain Lake on January 21st, 2014. Photo by Marjorie Kamys Cotera/Texas Tribune.

Courtesy of the Texas Tribune

Aug. 23, 2016

Toyota is installing a 7.75 Megawatt solar installation at its new headquarters in Plano set to be completed in 2017. Courtesy of Toyota.

July 8, 2016

Toyota’s giant rooftop solar installation in Plano, on target to be the largest non-utility solar array in Texas, will shine a light on a technology that’s growing and well-suited to North Texas, but has been a little slower to catch on here.

Solar engineer Dan Lepinski is teaching free solar classes throughout Texas, starting June 7-8 at Cedar Valley College in Lancaster. Photo by Karl Thibodeaux.

May 31, 2016

Solar power is growing faster than ever in Texas. In 2015 alone, investments in solar increased by 50 percent over 2014. 

In terms of power, Texas installed 207 Megawatts of solar electric capacity in 2015, bringing the aggregate total to 534 Megawatts, according to industry analysts.

Photo courtesy of Rex Curry/Greenpeace.

May 17, 2016

On May 25, two hours before ExxonMobil shareholders convene their annual meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, 100 climate activists are expected to rally outside the center, asking the state to investigate Exxon for a 20-year campaign of public and shareholder disinformation and calling on investors to divest their Exxon shares.

Jay Squyres' home in Flower Mound above and below. Aerial views show extensive solar panels, but also show that most of the project is shielded from street view.

May 10, 2016

When Jay Squyres installed his first solar rooftop array in 2009, the homeowner’s association in his Flower Mound subdivision went ballistic. Alarmed that the shiny panels on Squyres’ roof would somehow degrade values or mar the aesthetics of the affluent, treed and master-planned Wellington community, his HOA sued him. Twice.