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Texas energy market holds generations of both fossil energy and renewable energy. Just like the entire country, Texas energy industry is also experiencing a heavy growth in the renewable energy business.
Texas is rich with crude oil treasure and hence boasts a well settled petroleum industry. A number of petroleum energy companies in Texas are generating fossil fuel from the beginning of the 20th century. Texas houses some of the major oil producing and energy generating companies in the US.
Here is a list of some of the major oil and gas companies of Texas that had been generating and providing energy to the US for decades:
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, the state of Texas is experiencing a heavy 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 over the utility of renewable energy in order to preserve the environment. The Innovative Energy Demonstration Program (IEDP) undertaken by SECO has taken the responsibility to provide 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 the Texas electronic companies need to increase the use of renewable energy in the state. As par 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