Austin Energy
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Search complete. 23 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Austin Energy".
Sep 25, 2026
Don PryorHOST
Well, you know what? Kansas and Sticks did not want to play a no-kill, so what's the point?
Todd JeffriesHOST
Listen, the Austin City Council, they rubber stamped more than a billion dollars in bonds and contracts on consents, including hundreds of millions of dollars for Austin Energy and Austin Water, with almost no debate.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Yeah, the real fight was on the zoning of some issues.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Yeah, neighbors filed a formal opposition petition against the school district and the city on a rezoning of some land near 49th and Rosedale.
Todd JeffriesHOST
City Hall?
Patrick OsbornHOST
Yeah, we'll just raise taxes on them or take a little bit more out of Austin Energy.
Todd JeffriesHOST
That's a good point.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Yeah, that's a good point.
Todd JeffriesHOST
They've got unlimited cash, it seems.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Speaking of energy, Austin Energy, there's an interesting story this morning.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Let me see if I can find it.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Chris Fox has this story from the state capitol.
Todd JeffriesHOST
The latest on Project Connect and the data center conversation, you know, putting a hold on that.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Public safety and also Austin Energy.
Todd JeffriesHOST
We'll talk about a few of those issues.
Todd JeffriesHOST
And we'll be sure to come back if you've got to step away.
43 MINS LATER
Ryan AlterGUEST
And in fact, part of the discussion of the dog's head was if we left it in the county and didn't have any of our city rules apply, you would most likely have the type of development that is very water inefficient.
Ryan AlterGUEST
And we didn't want to see that.
Todd JeffriesHOST
A state lawmaker and former Austin City Council member, Ellen Troxler, in an op-ed piece in The Statesman, talking about breaking up Austin Energy.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Called it a monopoly.
Alfred JohnsonHOST
So far, Base has raised more than two and a half billion dollars, most recently a billion-dollar round in August that valued the company at thirteen billion dollars.
Alfred JohnsonHOST
It runs a factory in Austin, it sells power in Texas and Illinois, and it has utility partnerships with El Paso Electric, Austin Energy, and CoServ.
Alfred JohnsonHOST
Crux has worked with Base on tax credit sales since the company's early days.
Alfred JohnsonHOST
As you'll hear, Zach isn't making an argument about the technology.
11 MINS LATER
Zach DellGUEST
The ERCOT market is large, it's competitive, largely.
Zach DellGUEST
It's about eighty, you know, eighty percent competitive, twenty percent regulated.
Zach DellGUEST
Although the, the Texas co-ops and munis and IOUs, in the case of El Paso Electric, have been great partners of ours and, uh, we've, you know, done significant deployments with the Texas co-ops and munis, and obviously we recently announced our partnership with Austin Energy.
Zach DellGUEST
And so Texas regulated, deregulated, both have been just great, uh, places for us to start scaling our technology and experimenting with our solution, and it's big, it's growing fast.
Zach DellGUEST
Twenty percent of the market is still regulated.
Zach DellGUEST
So Austin Energy is a municipal utility.
Zach DellGUEST
So we sit here in Austin in our office that is served by Austin Energy.
Zach DellGUEST
We cannot be the electricity provider to Austin Energy.
Zach DellGUEST
Same thing in San Antonio.
Zach DellGUEST
CPS is a municipal utility there.
FanniHOST
Carl R. Rabago is the principal of Rabago Energy LLC, based in Denver.
FanniHOST
With over 35 years of experience in clean energy, utility regulation and sustainability, he has served as Texas PUC Commissioner, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary, Vice President at Austin Energy, and Attorney.
FanniHOST
A recognized innovator and expert in performance-based regulation and distributed energy resources, He has worked with RMI, EDF and other NGOs and chairs the board of the Center for Resource Solutions and has provided more than 190 expert witness
FanniHOST
testimonies.
Robin BurghausGUEST
Those weren't broken up.
Robin BurghausGUEST
So for example, Austin Energy is city owned.
Robin BurghausGUEST
It owns and operates power generators, transmission and distribution lines.
Robin BurghausGUEST
It sells electricity to its customers.
Robin BurghausGUEST
So people who live in Austin, they don't shop around for their electricity.
Robin BurghausGUEST
They're Austin Energy customers.
Robin BurghausGUEST
And I will say too, deregulation that introduced competition, it was pitched as a way to help lower electricity costs.
Stephen LaraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Right, right.
Robin BurgessGUEST
Thank you for having me.
Jerry QuijanoHOST
So here in Austin, we have a public utility, Austin Energy, but much of the state utilizes a deregulated energy market.
Jerry QuijanoHOST
Can you explain how that works and why the market is set up that way?
Robin BurgessGUEST
Yeah, so if you jump back to 1999, there was a bill, Senate Bill 7, that was signed into law and that laid the groundwork for the Texas deregulated energy market.
Robin BurgessGUEST
So Texans who live in the competitive market can shop for their electricity.
Robin BurgessGUEST
But we also have municipally owned utilities throughout our state that weren't broken up.
Robin BurgessGUEST
So, for example, Austin Energy is city owned.
Robin BurgessGUEST
It owns and operates the power generators, the transmission and distribution lines and sells electricity to customers.