Time to renew? Become a new TXSES member? We do cool stuff.
The TXSES Annual Meeting will be January 19, 2013. Location to be announced shortly.
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The Unified Energy System
Dec.10-13 at Lost Pines
Join us in Bastrop as Texas Renewable Energy Industires Association hosts its annual conference. Renewable energy has come of age. Solar modules are below a dollar/watt and Texas Coastal wind now competes with base load in price, yet performs like a peaker. Solar plants can now compete with peakers in price...more
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We are offering two afternoon workshop sessions Dec.10 for the low price of $25 for both...more
*Design and Build for Efficiency- LaVerne Williams, AIA, LEED AP
*Solar-What You Need to Know- Cathy Redson, award winning educator
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TXSES is a member of the American Solar Energy Society, shinning a light on the solution since 1954. Become a member of ASES and support the adoption of solar energy nationwide.
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One environment.
One simple way to care for it.
One gift through workplace giving can support TXSES and other respected environmental charities. More
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Chairman's Corner
Christine Chandler
The elections are over. Now it's time to refresh our drive to promote renewable energy, and solar energy in particular. While some people still believe solar is too expensive or too complicated, it is heartening to note results of a study commissioned by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The study of a national representative sample of registered voters was conducted in September, 2012...read more.
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The Winter the Gas Was Cut to
Crystal City
Thirty five years ago, solar thermal saved the residents of this South Texas town
By Michael Albrecht
Drawn to Texas from the East Coast in the mid-1970s by the first academic sustainable architecture program in the country at UT Austin, Pliny Fisk found himself unexpectedly embroiled in a political hotbed in south Texas. His involvement in six impoverished south Texas towns would result in the installation of some 2,000 solar water heaters fashioned from recycled materials.
Fisk was presenting a paper at a conference in San Antonio in the fall of 1977 when members of the Community Development Corporation (CDC), operated by the local La Raza Unida Party, approached him. With a sense of urgency, they explained that the natural gas supply to their entire town of Crystal City, Texas, was about to be cut off by the provider, Lo-Vaca Gas Company. Read more
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The Army's Net Zero Approach to
Energy Security
Fort Bliss on track to achieve goal by 2018
By Colonel Scot Arey United States military bases in Texas are an important part of our national security. What many renewable energy enthusiasts may not know is that they also play the part of role model for Texas energy security. While Texas assesses how it will meet its electrical demands over the next decade, military installations are making progress now to become Net Zero installations. The Department of Defense is serious about reducing power consumption, increasing the use of renewable energy, and attaining energy security.
Net Zero is the Army's approach to energy security, and its website shows the importance it places not just on the operational necessity of energy security but also on being a solid partner with its local communities. According to the website, the Army is ...."creating a culture that recognizes the value of sustainability measured not just in terms of financial benefits, but benefits to maintaining mission capability, quality of life, relationships with local communities, and the preservation of options for the Army's future." Read more
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The Solar Reflector is a publication of TXSES
Chairman - Christine Chandler
Interim Executive Director - Lucy Stolzenburg
Editors - Lucy Stolzenburg, Deborah Stedman
Contributing Writers- Michael Albrecht, Scot Arey
The Texas Solar Energy Society, a 501(c)(3), was founded in 1976 as a non-profit organization created to increase awareness for the potential of solar and other renewable energy applications and to promote the wise use of sustainable and non-polluting resources.
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