Conservative Texas Town to Buy 100% Renewable Energy

Deep red Georgetown, Texas (pop. 55,000) is locking into solar and wind energy by 2017. Why? To save money. 

Williamson County Courthouse by Larry Moore (CC by 3.0)

While gas is cheap now, city leaders and businesses don't trust its historical price fluctuations.

"You're locking in that rate and ten years from now, wind and solar many be even less yet," said Fred Beach, assistant director for energy and technology policy at University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute. "But if you're happy with locking in today's rate for the next 20 years with certainty, that's an unbelievably powerful hedging opportunity."

Read more in this Fronteras article.

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