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March 9, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: Veronica Escobar takes Democratic nomination for Congress, easily defeats Dori Fenenbock
Former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar easily won the Democratic nomination in the race for the 16th Congressional District seat Tuesday, avoiding a primary runoff on her way to becoming Texas' first Latina in Congress.
March 5, 2018 • EPE Related News
El Paso Inc.: Women Change Agents: As El Paso women fill the executive ranks, they’re paving the way for other women
Glass ceilings are breaking all over the country as women fight to rise to positions of leadership in these times of #MeToo and powerful male leaders are being accused of sexual harassment and assault.
March 8, 2018 • EPE Related News
El Paso Times: El Paso Electric proposes refunding $27 million to Texas customers for past tax deductions
El Paso Electric has made it official: It wants to return $27 million to El Paso area customers in the next 12 months due to lower federal corporate tax rates that took effect in January.
March 2, 2018 • EPE Related News
Tax Reform and Credit Coverage
El Paso Electric Files Request to Provide a Credit to TX Customers
March 2, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Inc: Report shows exactly how much lower El Paso paychecks are.
It’s no secret wages in El Paso are among the lowest of any major U.S. city. But for the first time, a new report shows just how much lower they are for the jobs most in demand.
March 9, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: Texas Tech chancellor lauds fast-growing El Paso campus after tour; says popular with legislators
The Texas Legislature should be more generous with higher education funding in the 2019 session than it was in last year's tight-budget fight, Texas Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan said Thursday at Texas Tech's El Paso campus.
February 28, 2018 • EPE Related News
El Paso Times: Some El Paso Electric customers to get monthly refunds as utility returns $31M deductions
El Paso Electric's Texas residential customers will get an average $3 to $4 per month refund on their electric bills beginning later this year due to lower federal corporate tax rates that took effect in January, company officials reported Tuesday.
February 28, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: El Paso's resale home prices hit record high in 2017, still lag Texas and Southwest cities
El Paso's resale home prices hit a record high in 2017, new data show.
February 28, 2018 • EPE Related News
El Paso Times: El Paso Electric's profit increases to $98.3 million in 2017
Increased electric rates helped boost El Paso Electric's profit 1.5 percent in 2017 to $98.3 million, or an increase of $1.5 million, from 2016, the company reported Tuesday.
February 28, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: El Paso gets new expansion USL soccer team, will play at Southwest University Park in 2019
El Paso has a new professional soccer team that will begin play next year at Southwest University Park.
February 27, 2018 • Local News
Santa Fe New Mexican: PRC, please explain decisions
In a state ravaged by poverty, keeping a lid on the cost of power is critical to struggling households and our ability to attract business and create jobs. Yet, New Mexico’s electric utilities continue a barrage of rate increase demands to pay for new investments — often in dying technologies. This in a state showing little or no...
February 27, 2018 • Industry-related News
Forbes: How To Prevent Electric Vehicles From Stressing The Grid
According to the Edison Electric Institute, seven million zero-emission vehicles will be on American roads by 2025. This could have significant impacts on the grid as charging one electric vehicle (EV) is nearly equivalent to adding three houses to the power system.
February 27, 2018 • Regional News
ABQ Journal: Tax changes sink PNM earnings in 2017
PNM Resources reported a 32 percent decline in net earnings in 2017, reflecting a $57.5 million write-off in the fourth quarter related to federal tax reform.
February 27, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Inc: $40 million Blue Flame project is a go
The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso has won the historical designation it needed to push ahead with the transformation of the Blue Flame building.
February 27, 2018 • Industry-related News
PV Magazine: Getting ahead of the changes
Interview: Mary Powell, CEO at Vermont utility Green Mountain Power speaks with pv magazine about her unique strategy to bring clean energy and 21st century innovation by focusing on customer needs.
February 23, 2018 • Local News
Las Cruces Sun-News: John Vasquez resigns from Doña Ana County Commission
LAS CRUCES - Facing heavy criticism for his treatment of women and calls from top leaders in his own party to resign, Doña Ana County Commissioner John Vasquez stepped down on Thursday.
February 23, 2018 • EPE Related News
El Paso Electric Celebrates Engineers Week 2018
#EPElectric is celebrating the many contributions made by our engineers, who help improve systems and create more efficient ways to generate, transmit, and use power. #PoweringTheFuture #Eweek2018
February 23, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: El Paso Democratic voter turnout up 86 percent over 2014 on first day of early voting
More than 4,800 people in El Paso County cast ballots on Tuesday — the first day of early voting for the March primary.
February 23, 2018 • Regional News
Houston Chronicle: Texas' summer power prices expected to rise
Wholesale summer power prices in Texas are expected to rise after the shutdown of three coal-fired power plants last year. But by how much -- and what kind of impact those increases will have on electricity bills -- might not be known until the summer is over, regulators say.
February 23, 2018 • Industry-related News
Utility Dive: FERC order opens 'floodgates' for energy storage in wholesale markets
The commission directed grid operators to develop rules for storage to participate in the wholesale energy, capacity and ancillary services markets.
February 22, 2018 • Industry-related News
WSJ: Mandates, Not Market Prices, Likely to Keep U.S. Solar Growing
Government mandates should keep U.S. solar power growing, despite new Trump administration tariffs on imported solar panels that are poised to raise prices.
February 22, 2018 • Local News
El Paso Times: KVIA's Estela Casas to be off air while she recovers from double mastectomy
Longtime Channel 7-KVIA news anchor Estela Casas will undergo a double mastectomy this week.
February 22, 2018 • Local News
City of Las Cruces: Mayor Miyagishima joins Hundreds of Mayors from Across the Country Opposing Clean Power Plan Repeal and Urging Trump Administration to Act on Climate
Today, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima joined more than 200 mayors from across the U.S. to express his support for the Clean Power Plan (CPP) – an essential public health protection and climate change solution that sets the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants and helps cities transition to a clean energy...
February 23, 2018 • Regional News
TCEQ: Grants for Electricity Storage Projects
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality announces that grant funds are available for Electricity Storage Projects, the storage of power from renewable energy that is released back to the grid, under the New Technology Implementation Grant Program. Eligible organizations that intend to build, own, and operate new technologies to reduce...
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