Elizabeth Trovall | Marketplace
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Natural gas could play a role in the green energy transition, but additional natural transmission pipelines are critical to meet growing electricity demand.
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Tariffs on Mexico and Canada would suddenly create barriers in what’s been a decades-long free trade region.
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Things like generators and microgrids are on the rise because of electricity reliability concerns in the state. For low- and middle-income Texans, a new and expanding lending program is also helping ready them for the strains of a changing climate.
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Microgrids generate and supply their own power in tandem with the grid and work as a backup option in case extreme weather knocks out power.
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A home builder and an electricity retailer are partnering to install backup power batteries in new homes as Texans brace for potential outages this winter.
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In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.