The City of Austin is now updating our generation plans and making decisions about where our electricity will come from for the next several decades, and they want to hear from us. If you'd like to see Austin move to more and more renewable sources (even 100% at some point), please take a minute in the next few days and email Austin Energy (tinyurl.com/TellAE) and City Council (http://www.austintexas.gov/mail/all-council-members).

Send an email as simple as the one below:

“As a stakeholder in our city’s future I favor a plan that gets us to renewable resources as quickly as possible and retires or minimizes the use of coal from the Fayette Power Project as quickly as possible.”

You can also attend one of the Austin Energy Stakeholder Input meetings: 

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 – 6 to 8 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 – 1 to 3 p.m. 

Like my friend Jeff says, we own our utility and we're lucky in that. Our input can make a difference in how long/how much we rely on coal and natural gas.

Thanks, people!