Because Austin Energy is owned by the city of Austin, it prioritizes people over profits, Council Member José "Chito" Vela ...

Over 2,000 Austin Energy customers are without power following storms on Thursday.There areTotal Customers with ...

Several other people were reported missing across Travis, Williamson and Burnet counties. Meanwhile, Austin ISD's superintendent told the community that families in the district had been impacted by ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study has found that burying all of Austin Energy's overhead power lines would cost $50 billion and require decades of work. In February 2023, an ice storm knocked out ...

Austin Energy said in a Thursday press release that it will bring a new geothermal project online in 2025, and that it will add five megawatts of carbon-free energy to the local grid.

Austin Energy is both a power generator and a utility, so it operates on two levels of the state’s electricity market. First, it contracts with wind and solar farms and owns natural gas, coal ...

The higher Austin Energy bills reflect a $104 million under collection last year, according to the city-owned utility. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Austin Energy (No. 12) moved to a virtual environment, running 150 servers instead of 600, and using new multicore CPU technology and energy-saving de-duplication and compression technologies.

Data from Austin Energy shows a peak of 72,506 customers were without power at 7:56 p.m. on May 28. That’s approximately 12.8% of all customers.

AUSTIN, Texas — As Central Texans face an electricity and water crisis in the aftermath of this week's storms, many are now fearing a new foe: sky-high energy bills.

Austin Energy also upped customers’ monthly bills by an average of $15 a month in November.This pass-through rate increase covers the cost of buying and transporting energy.

A few years ago, Austin Energy's GreenChoice program in Austin, Texas was rated top in the country for delivering cheap renewable energy to Texan customers who signed up. Since then, prices have ...