The City of San Antonio-owned utility’s acting CEO talks about the people’s right to energy, the next generation of power sources, the importance of resilience centers and robust energy conservation, and approaching the Biden Administration for ways to retire coal faster. Greg Harman CPS Energy is a utility in transition. […]
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TAKE ACTION: Your Comment Needed On Critical CPS Energy Programs
Scaling back or ending CPS Energy’s Save for Tomorrow Energy Plan—created to meet deep economic and environmental needs—shouldn’t be up for debate.
Winter Storm Survey: Unmet Physical and Emotional Needs a Year After Winter Storm Uri
Deceleration’s Winter Storm Survey shows the freezing blackout is a lingering specter. Only community-led solutions-making can exorcise it.
City Council: Reject CPS Energy’s Proposed Rate Hike
On Thursday, City Council is expected to vote on a 3.85-percent increase in CPS Energy rate hike. Here’s why they need to vote no.
Fossil Fuels Have Swamped CPS Energy’s Rate Advisory Committee
CPS Energy’s Rate Advisory Committee is centering fossil fuel interests, alienating Councilmembers, and just lost its most influential equity voice. What can be done?
San Antonio’s Five Most ‘Energy Burdened’ Neighborhoods
Energy costs more when you have less. It’s a fact long accepted in the same punishing way that people accept forced disconnections from power naturally flows from an inability to keep up with the bills.
Why We Can’t Stop Thinking About Paula Gold-Williams (And Neither Should You)
A review of the legacy of outgoing CPS CEO Paula Gold-Williams reveals how she deftly managed climate action expectations through delay and misdirection. But with critical global deadlines looming, her replacement must make an equitable transition to clean energy their top priority.
Loop 1604 Expansion: ‘Induced Travel’ to Deliver More Traffic, Pollution
For a City struggling to improve public health and reduce climate harms, a growing Loop 1604 comes with serious costs. Greg Harman This week, members of the CPS Energy Board of Trustees voted to pull a search committee together to seek out a replacement for outgoing CPS Energy CEO Paula […]