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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 >
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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 ...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 >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pecan Street Project (#Austin’s #SmartGrid) releases report of recommendations (@PecanStProject)
Mar 24th
Pecan Street Project releases report of recommendations
Pecan Street Project, Inc. today issued a report of recommendations spurred by the research and deliberations conducted throughout 2009.
Many thanks to the staff and board of the Pecan Street Project, Inc., as well as the hundreds of volunteer experts who helped shape this important set of recommendations.
A press release regarding today’s report will be posted on this web site later this morning.
Also, don’t miss our new short video that introduces many of the team members that have led this effort and explains what this unique effort is trying to accomplish.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VIDEO: Q&A with Executive Director, Pecan Street Project (Austin’s SmartGrid Lab)
Feb 13th
Energy Entrepreneurs & The Pecan Street Project: Q&A /w/ Brewster McCracken
February 13, 2010 in Meetings by Joel Greenberg
Energy Entrepreneurs met to begin the discussion of how they can participate in the Pecan Street Project, Austin’s smart grid demonstration project. The Pecan Commons hosted the meeting at Tech Ranch Austin. It was a working session where teams broke out into various categories to list out what they needed from the Pecan Street Project in order to participate.
Pecan Street Project Executive Director, Brewster McCracken ended the meeting with a Q&A session. This video is of that Q&A session.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VIDEO: Pecan Commons Launch, Energy Entrepreneurs & Austin’s Smart Grid
Feb 4th
YouTube - Pecan Commons Launch — 2.2.10.
Pecan Street Project and Tech Ranch Austin at the kickoff of Pecan Commons, a group of energy entrepreneurs who have self-organized around Austin’s Pecan Street Project clean energy effort.
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