Austin Energy has released rate proposals for all customer classes to secure the utility's financial future and enable it to continue providing clean, affordable, reliable energy and excellent customer service. The utility seeks a 13 percent system-wide average rate increase, its first in 17 years. An assessment by utility staff, with the help of outside experts, over the past year shows that Austin Energy is under-recovering costs by about $132 million a year.

The Webber Energy Group analyzes energy problems at the intersection of science, engineering, and public policy. Sample research topics include: biofuels; waste-to-energy; energy and security; green design; energy in Texas, the nexus of energy and food; and the nexus of water and energy. We are affiliated with the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy (CIEEP), the Clean Energy Incubator, and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law as a part of the Cockrell School of Engineering, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Jackson School of Geosciences.

One place the utility has looked to cut? Door hangers. The same door hangers that the electric company leaves if someone hasn

Texas industries use 19% of the energy consumed across the US by industries, ranking first among the states in industrial energy use. In 2004 Texas industries consumed 53% of the energy used by all sectors in Texas. Because of the concentration and types of energy-intensive industries in Texas, efficient energy management practices and technologies offer a solution to economic and environmental challenges faced by the state

KLRU, KUT-FM and The Austin American Statesman are partnering to present Austin @ Issue: Energy For the Future on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. This 30-minute special features a discussion of Austin

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee creates the Renewable Technologies Work Group to coordinate and track stakeholder efforts to capture the benefits and address the challenges associated with the introduction of renewable energy generating technologies interconnected to the ERCOT grid.

The Pecan Street Project, Inc., is a Texas non-profit corporation incorporated in August 2009 with the goal of advancing the research and implementation agenda developed through Phase I of the Pecan Street Project. The Pecan Street Project, Inc., will serve as a hub of clean energy development in Austin

Today, more than ever, consumers have the ability and the interest to invest in clean energy. Clean energy includes energy efficiency and clean energy supply options like highly efficient combined heat and power as well as renewable energy sources. EPA

Austin Energy is developing its generation plan through 2020. That plan must meet the energy demands of our growing community and City Council goals for renewable energy and carbon reduction, while providing affordable electricity rates. An important component of the planning process is input from the community.

The Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CEERE) provides technological and economic solutions to environmental problems resulting from energy production, industrial, manufacturing, and commercial activities, and land use practices.

To encourage Austinites to trim their environmental impact, Austin Energy unveiled an online carbon calculator Friday at the Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo. The calculator, which is free to use, tabulates an individual's carbon dioxide emissions, based on a user's energy and water consumption, garbage production, travel miles and eating habits.

The state energy office, SECO, partners with Texas consumers, businesses, educators and local governments to reduce energy costs and maximize efficiency.

The RMC advises the city council in developing and reviewing city plans and programs in the area of alternative energy technologies, renewable energy sources and on energy and water conservation. The EUC reviews and analyzes all policies and procedures of the electric utility including the electric rate structure, fuel costs and charges, customer services, capital investments, new generation facilities, selection of types of fuel, purchase of fuel, transportation of fuel, billing procedures, and the transfer of electric utility revenues from the utility fund to the general fund.

EMEX is the first and only real-time, online system that gives business the power to compare and switch electricity suppliers- saving up to 25% on commercial electricity.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) is a nonprofit professional society of over 11,000 members in 78 countries.

The mission of the Public Utility Commission of Texas is to protect customers, foster competition, and promote high quality infrastructure.