Texas Energy Companies

The Texas energy market holds generations of fossil energy and renewable energy. As with the rest of the country, the Texas energy industry is experiencing a heavy growth in the renewable energy business.

Texas is rich with crude oil and thus boasts a well-established petroleum industry. A number of petroleum energy companies in Texas have been generating fossil fuel since the beginning of the 20th century. Texas holds some of the major oil producing and energy generating companies in the US.

Here is a list of some of the oldest major oil and gas companies of Texas:

Texas Oil Co

Hess Corporation

• Texas Oil Co
• Hess Corporation
• AGA Oil and Gas Consultants
• Aruba Petroleum Incorporated
• Aspen Integrated Oil & Gas LLC
• Belco Oil & Gas Corp
• Harken Oil
• Beck Pump
• Daniel Explorations, Inc
• Darwin Oil Company

The use of renewable energy is also quite popular in Texas. Over the last couple of years, Texas has experienced growth in the renewable energy generation market. The Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) is running a number of projects on renewable energy generation across the state. The major projects taken up by the SECO currently are:

• Solar Energy
• Wind Energy
• Geothermal Energy
• Biomass Energy
• Renewable Energy Education
• Solar For Schools
• Energy Education Curriculum
• Energy Education Outreach
• Pollution Mitigation
• Alternative Fuels

The office not only runs renewable energy generation projects across the state, but also takes a number of measures to educate people on the utility of renewable energy in order to preserve the environment. The Innovative Energy Demonstration Program (IEDP) undertaken by SECO has taken the responsibility of providing the people of Texas with educational information on renewable energy resources.

Along with other 18 states of the USA, Texas has also enacted Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), according to which Texas electric utility companies must increase the use of renewable energy in the state. As per the state's electricity market, Texas enacted the RPS asking for 2000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity by 2009. The state of Texas has already installed 1200 MW of new renewable energy keeping itself well ahead in the annual requirement schedule.

Some of the renewable energy companies in Texas carrying forward the renewable energy projects are:

• American National Wind Power
• General Land Office & Lower Colorado River Authority
• TXU Electric
• West Texas Energy Partners LP