Saul Elbein

Austin

Journalist covering land, energy, and resources. Co-writer on The Hill's Sustainability newsletter. All opinions my own.

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Articles

Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

2 days ago | kxan.com | Saul Elbein

The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects - even existing ones - to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.
Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

4 days ago | cw39.com | Saul Elbein

The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.
Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

5 days ago | myhighplains.com | Saul Elbein

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Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

5 days ago | thehill.com | Saul Elbein

The Texas Senate on Thursday passed a bill that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.
Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Saul Elbein

The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.
Pilot project seeks to fix Achilles heel of geothermal power

6 days ago | thehill.com | Saul Elbein

A pilot project from a team of oil industry veterans could save one of California’s key clean energy resources from terminal decline. On Thursday, energy company Greenfire announced that they had restored new life to a defunct well in The Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal power station — and one that has been in a state of slow, decades-long collapse.
Pilot project seeks to fix Achilles’ heel of geothermal power

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Saul Elbein

A pilot project from a team of oil industry veterans could save one of California’s key clean energy resources from terminal decline. On Thursday, the Oklahoma City-based GreenFire Energy announced it had restored new life to a defunct well in the Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal power station — and one that has been in a state of slow, decades-long collapse.
Policymakers chart middle path on climate, energy under Trump 2.0

1 week ago | thehill.com | Saul Elbein

The polarized atmosphere around U.S. energy and climate policy hides a broadly popular path forward, key policymakers said Tuesday at The Hill’s Energy and Environment Summit in Washington. Despite disagreements — over fossil fuels’ role in meeting growing demand, the need for urgent climate action and support or opposition to President Trump — speakers at the event found broad consensus on the issues.
5 questions about Musk’s new Texas towns, Starbase and Snailbrook

1 week ago | myfox8.com | Saul Elbein

(The Hill) — An electorate of Space X employees in South Texas has voted to create the new town of Starbase and elect fellow employees as its mayor and city commissioners. That nearly unanimous vote on Saturday made Elon Musk — in addition to the world’s richest man and the head of the DOGE initiative reshaping the federal government — the employer of the entire government of what amounts to a SpaceX company town. It is unlikely to be his last.
5 questions about Musk’s new Texas towns, Starbase and Snailbrook

1 week ago | kron4.com | Saul Elbein

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