Pecan Street Project Public Meeting June 23rd

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Pecan Street Project Public Meeting June 23rd

June 22, 2009 by citizensarah

You are invited to learn about and provide input to the Austin Pecan Street Project tomorrow, June 23 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Capital Area Workforce Board, 6505 Airport Blvd., Suite 101-E (please enter from the Highland Mall side of the building).

The Pecan Street Project is an initiative charged with exploring the challenges Austin faces in building a modern energy system, including a smart grid. On September 25, 2008, the Austin City Council adopted a resolution directing the city to work with Environmental Defense Fund and other community stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of system improvements, technology advances, and business models that would enable Austin Energy to more fully develop its capacity for the distributed generation of clean energy.

Attendees will be provided information about the project, followed by an invitation to participate in breakout sessions encouraging discussion and soliciting feedback about the project’s technology, system design, financial and economic development aspects.

The project is a partnership among the City of Austin, Austin Energy, University of Texas, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Environmental Defense Fund. The project has already garnered 11 corporate partnerships, including Dell Inc., IBM Corporation, Intel, Cisco Systems and others.

For a primer on just what a “smart grid” is, check out the following video. Hope to see you at the meeting tomorrow!

For more information on the Pecan Street Project, check out their YouTube channel and watch a couple of their videos.

Posted in Efficiency, Energy | Tagged airport blvd, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, capital area workforce board, Clean Energy, highland mall, pecan street project, smart grid, Texas, University of Texas | 1 Comment

One Response

on June 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm | Reply afisher

I have received not ONE but TWO messages from the TX State Comptroller warning me that CAP and Trade will devistate TX.
She went on to talk about all the job losses in Houston if the Oil Industry takes a hit, but fails to talk about any green energy jobs.

Today I received the 2nd one with the correct authors: financed by Pew Charitable Trust.

Her message is wrong and I emailed her my response: hmm, I never received a response.

Anyhow, I’m from deep South TX, so won’t make you meeting, but in case you didn’t receive the email…you do need to know that “enemies with the State” are looking to gain national votes on Cap/Trade.