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Smart Grid: The Customer Side of the Meter view event details April 7th at the Blanton Museum of Art Production of electricity in the United States is entering a period of dramatic transformation. Yet, despite broad-based support for a smarter energy grid in many states and the federal government, a combination of socioeconomic, technological, and legal barriers sometimes impede deployment of smart grid systems. The barriers include information gaps, capital constraints, poor pricing methods, and outdated laws. Market failures also exist in the form of network effects, high transaction costs, and technology spillovers from investments in learning-by-doing. It is clear that large-scale transformation of the electric utility sector will not occur unless these barriers are better understood, and then neutralized or circumvented. Register to Attend

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The CleanTX Foundation
The CleanTX Foundation provides the networking and educational environment for professionals interested in building the Texas clean technology community. Our mission is to promote entrepreneurship in the field of clean technology and renewable energy in Texas, by providing educational forums, content, awareness and networking opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, and policy makers to share real-world experiences and challenges in the field. The CleanTX Foundation will also schedule ad hoc events when clean technology leaders are available to travel to Austin. We will also announce and support workshops and demonstrations of new technologies in the community and will highlight Austin’s growing list of cleantech successes.

Since its inception, The CleanTX Foundation has executed over 24 educational events consisting of its monthly CleanTX Forums, quarterly Solar Energy Entrepreneurs Networking events and annual clean energy policy events such as the Solar Forum held in 2008 and the Green Jobs Forum held in 2009 at the Texas State Capital. These events have attracted over 4000 attendees and 100 expert panelists and speakers. In addition, 10 educational primers were also published. The CleanTX Forum has become the leading source for educating and promoting the emerging Clean Technology industry in Central Texas.

The CleanTX Forum is currently applying for its non-profit organizational status (501c3) to continue to coordinate the events and partnerships necessary to extend Clean Technology educational leadership in Central Texas, deliver new programs, and expand the services offered to CleanTX community. Specific community benefits include:

To bring the cleantech community together to be educated on leading topics in the arena
Attract outside talent to Austin to present national and international topics
Assist and recruit new companies to locate in Austin and to do business here
Reach more of the Texas Community by hosting more events, broadcasting to other cities and building a community portal
Build and host a Job/Networking site