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 ...

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 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.

Austin Energy is reporting a new outage in Northwest Austin that is affecting about 1,000 customers in Robinson Ranch neighborhood, southeast of the intersection of U.S. 183 and Texas 45.

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 ...

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 Energy says plans to build the East Village Substation #2 have been in the works since 2019, but residents in the new development say they had no idea.

Austin Energy has additionally cautioned that, when power is restored, circuits can become overloaded because of lights, electronics, and thermostats left on prior to the outage, ...