Austin Energy and The Clean Energy Incubator are proud to announce the third annual Clean Energy Venture Summit, “Bringing the Smart Grid to Life” on October 14 -15, 2009 at the AT&T Executive Center in Austin, Texas. This summit provides clean energy technology companies and entrepreneurs a venue for presenting their innovations to venture capitalists, angel investors and strategic investors that currently invest in clean energy, along with experts from Austin Energy, corporate partners, other utility executives and government leaders.
This year’s theme “Bringing the Smart Grid to Life” directly relates to efforts from the Pecan Street Project. The Pecan Street Project (PSP) is Austin’s city-wide clean energy laboratory, the largest in the nation, devoted to exploring new ideas. It is the only place where researchers and entrepreneurs can come to develop, test and implement the Smart Grid.
The Summit is a place where clean energy innovations targeting the key PSP focus areas will be able to connect with investors and prospective customers. Start-up and growth-stage companies enter the business venture competition for a unique opportunity to present their technology innovation, business plan and environmental impact to a distinguished panel of PSP corporate partners and investors.
The competition will focus on enabling technology in five areas:
- Distributed generation and renewable energy
- Energy efficiency, demand response and load management control
- Storage and transportation
- Demand management
- Other Smart Grid
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