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Opportunity for FREE training: PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway, Austin 10/30
Oct 27th
ImagineSolar is offering a PV Sales and Marketing (4)-hour workshop Saturday, 10/30 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at JATC, 4000 Caven Rd. (google it for directions. Basically, just south of Ben White Blvd. just east of I-35)
This class is the first in our new PV Technical Sales Certification Pathway course series. Here is the offer: John Hoffner, host of KOOP “Shades of Green” Thursday 10/28 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. is GIVING AWAY FREE PASSES to this class to ANYONE WHO CALLS IN DURING THE PROGRAM!!! (Normally this class is $199.00 !!!) As many know, John and Michael Kuhn, President and CEO More >
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Loading ...University Receives $19 Million To Monitor Carbon Storage Project
Jul 8th
June 28, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin will receive up to $19 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and NRG Energy to design and oversee a monitoring plan for a carbon capture and storage demonstration project in southeast Texas.
The project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired power plant.
This project will be among the first in the state of Texas, and one of only a handful in the world, to use anthropogenic CO2 as opposed to naturally occurring CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR is a technique that More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Largest solar farm in Texas planned in Pflugerville – Austin Business Journal
Jul 2nd
Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:40am CDT
Austin Business Journal – by Francisco Vara-Orta Staff Writer
Read more: Largest solar farm in Texas planned in Pflugerville – Austin Business Journal
Pflugerville could be home to the largest solar farm in Texas, pending a final agreement between RRE Austin Solar, the City of Pflugerville, Elgin ISD and Travis County, according to local officials.
RRE Austin Solar, a local company backed by India-based investors, has bought 600 acres of farmland about 15 miles east of Pflugerville.
The Pflugerville City Council announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Austin Solar, under which the company will install up to $750,000 in More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Renewable Energy and the Utility: The Next 20 Years (New Business Models | Roger Duncan)
Jun 14th
Here’s how Austin Energy is planning for the transition. by Roger Duncan, Pecan Street Project Inc. Published: May 24, 2010
Texas, United States — The focus on the transition to renewable energy, energy efficiency programs and legislation surrounding these areas is spurring tremendous change in the utility industry. A lot of money and effort are being funneled to the research, development and deployment of clean energy technologies. The federal debate over fuels, technologies and the legislation supporting them has reached a fever pitch.
The utility industry is undergoing fundamental change. The extreme change sometimes envisioned-that utilities will disappear-is not likely. The future utility More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Smart Grid News: An Inside Look at Austin’s Pecan Street Project (@PecanStProject, @JimMarston))
Apr 28th
Apr 13, 2010
By Jim Marston and Gregory Burkart
Two years ago, an all-volunteer collaboration of technology companies, university talent and political progressives in Austin, Texas, set out to prove the viability of the emerging Smart Grid. The Pecan Street Project, named after one of the town’s more eclectic streets, incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2009, and it has already become an exemplary case study for the structure and financing of alternative energy projects.
Shortly after the group’s incarnation, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Pecan Street Project $10.4 million to demonstrate Smart Grid technologies in a real-world setting. Combining the federal award with $14.5 million More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment (#Austin #PV #MicroInverter)
Apr 26th
SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment
Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies has raised $15 million to build out operations for its first product launch.
Rho Ventures and Battery Ventures made the investment. SolarBridge has raised a total of $27 million.
SolarBridge develops technology to make solar panels more efficient. It is one of about two dozen companies that has received money from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The fund invested $1.5 million in the company in March.
Founded in 2004 using technology licensed from the University of Illinois, SolarBridge plans to launch its first product by the end of More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Austin Seeks a New Blueprint for Power Utilities – NYTimes.com
Apr 7th
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire Published: April 7, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas — When they loaded solar panels on their roofs in a new planned community here, Joe Zabreznik, Ashley Fisher and Leila Melhem were not trying to overturn a century-plus of electric utility practices and policies in the United States.
No less may be at stake, however, as the Pecan Street Project unfolds in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood.
Backed by a $10.4 million Smart Grid grant from the Department of Energy, the project will test whether Austin Energy –the city’s municipal power company — can manage a fundamental shift in how it operates.
Instead of selling More >
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Survey: Respond to the Pecan Street Project Report & Recommendations (#Austin #SmartGrid)
Apr 5th
The Pecan Street Project is Austin’s collaborative initiative to drive “smart grid” innovation locally and around the world, and the PSP Working Group recently released a REPORT, which included 39 RECOMMENDATIONS detailing the path forward.
If you are doing business with the PSP, or intend to do so, then please take a few moments to respond to the PSP Report using THIS SURVEY.
The purpose of the survey is to measure the collective agreement on assumptions and guiding principles within the report, and to provide a relative ranking of the recommendations, by interested parties.
I created the survey for the Pecan Commons, an organization that is helping to bring entrepreneurs More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Austin News: Pecan Street Project Unveils Smart Grid Solutions
Apr 1st
BY KATHERINE GREGOR On March 24, the Pecan Street Project released its recommendations for transforming the delivery of electricity – culminating a year of work. PSP representatives expect the report to influence the rapidly changing field nationally and internationally. “We’re audacious, or maybe arrogant, enough to think we can not just re-create or improve the utility but really come up with a new energy system,” said Jim Marston, a PSP board member.
The report recommends an approach to expanding the clean energy economy while transforming how energy is delivered to utility customers. The delivery system proposed is modeled on the Internet: It would make every consumer’s More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pecan Street Project Releases Report of Recommendations for New Energy System
Mar 24th
Pecan Street Project Releases Recommendations for Launching Clean Energy Economy and Bringing Transformative Change to Electricity
Collaboration includes University of Texas, Austin Energy, Environmental Defense Fund, major technology companies and business leaders
(Austin – March 24, 2010) – Participants of the Pecan Street Project today released a report of recommendations for transforming electricity delivery into a customer-focused clean energy system. The report stems from a year-long collaboration that included more than 200 volunteers from the City of Austin, Austin Energy, Environmental Defense Fund, The University of Texas, The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and more than a dozen local and national technology More >
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