Mose Buchele
Mose Buchele is the Austin-based broadcast reporter for KUT's NPR partnership StateImpact Texas . He has been on staff at KUT 90.5 since 2009, covering local and state issues. Mose has also worked as a blogger on politics and an education reporter at his hometown paper in Western Massachusetts. He holds masters degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin.
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The Bracken Cave Preserve, outside of San Antonio, is home to as many as 20 million bats.
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To reduce strain on the grid, ERCOT will pay big energy users like manufacturers and bitcoin miners to reduce the power they use. That frees up more electrons for others and keeps supply and demand balanced.
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Temperatures in cells often stay in the 90s for hours and can reach into the triple digits. Officials say there is no evidence the heat is killing prisoners, despite a spike in prison deaths that independent analysts attribute to the heat.
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The operator of Texas' electric grid says the “voluntary notice” is in effect Thursday from 3-8 p.m.
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Much of the southern part of the U.S. is under a heat advisory this week. In Texas, the heat is so extreme it's taxing the power grid.
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Millions of people are under heat advisories. Texas is experiencing some of the worst heat where high temperature records continue to be broken.
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Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 for his part in the creation of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, common in cellphones, laptops and electric cars around the world.
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Oil-rich Texas produces more wind power and, soon, more solar power than anywhere else in the country. Now state lawmakers want to cut renewable power off at the knees.
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The Texas grid will be more reliant on renewables than ever, according to a recent state assessment. Texas regulators don't like that.
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A drop in the population of monarchs in Mexico over the winter means you may see fewer of them flying back through Texas.