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 courts, along with federal and state lawmakers, have created a series of barriers against improving prison conditions with air conditioning. -
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. -
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. -
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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Senators want to make renewable energy in the Texas more expensive and put public money toward building more gas power plants. -
Continuing drought means Texas rice farmers will not receive water from the Lower Colorado River Authority in 2023. -
Ice-laden trees have been blamed for widespread power outages in Austin, Texas, this week. More than a hundred thousand households lost power for days.
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High electricity bills, grid reliability and industry political donations got a lot of attention in the governor's race. But polling suggests voters' minds are now elsewhere.
