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Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. is a research and development organization focused on developing and testing advanced technology, business model and customer behavior surrounding advanced energy management systems. Our flagship effort is the Pecan Street Demonstration, a smart grid research project that began in Austin’s Mueller community. The organization is comprised of two divisions. The Pecan Street Research Institute is a scientific research institute, focused on advancing understanding and solutions addressing utility system reliability, climate change, renewable energy integration and customer needs and preferences. The Institute is the nation’s most significant creator of original customer energy use research data available to the research community. Pecan Street’s specific research expertise consists of creating, managing, protecting, analyzing and responsibly sharing the highest quality original research data on how customers use electricity, natural gas and water in their homes and businesses. The Pike Powers Laboratory and Center for Commercialization offers specialized capabilities for developing, testing and validating a wide range of smart grid, distributed energy and consumer electronics hardware and software. Learn more at www.pikepowerslab.com. The initiative began in 2008 as a community collaboration to spark the nascent “smart grid” market in Austin the way that the MCC and SEMATECH consortia sparked the region’s semiconductor and information technology sectors a generation ago. Representatives of the founding members – the City of Austin, Austin Energy, The University of Texas, the Austin Technology Incubator, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Environmental Defense Fund – enlisted the participation of nearly a dozen private companies to explore the technical, economic and policy implications of an energy system that relies on better energy efficiency, locally generated renewable energy and a new economic model for electricity utilities. During that initial effort, the founding partners formed a stand-alone organization called Pecan Street Project Inc. that would carry on the effort’s vision beyond the release of the report of recommendations. The 501 (c) (3) non-profit Pecan Street Project Inc. was incorporated in August 2009, before the report of recommendations was released, and renamed Pecan Street Inc. in 2011. The new organization’s first objective was a successful application for a U.S. Department of Energy stimulus grant for a smart grid demonstration at Austin’s Mueller community. The grant was awarded in November 2009, and the demonstration is currently being implemented. Through the Pecan Street Research Institute and Pike Powers Laboratory and Center for Commercialization, the organization continues to explore research and commercialization efforts on a wide range of energy and consumer electronic topics.
Kiva Energy is a Manteca, CA-based company in the Energy and Utilities sector.
Powerex is a wholly owned subsidiary of BC Hydro. Since 1988, Powerex has been the exclusive marketer of BC Hydros clean surplus power and surplus capabilities. Over time, we have substantially grown our clean and renewable energy product offerings. We have also invested in significant electricity transmission and natural gas transportation and storage to maintain our leadership role in the movement of physical energy. Powerex has access to a wide portfolio of market resources to support our trade activities. The surplus capability of the BC Hydro generating system and Powerexs portfolio of transmission service rights enable Powerex to buy, sell and shape power deliveries to our customers across the Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) region. Today Powerex is a highly trusted and reliable energy trader, and one of the longest-operating physical energy marketing and trading companies in the business. Our competitive advantages are the quality of our service, the expertise and integrity of our people, and our ability to reliably deliver energy products and renewable energy integration services. We serve the needs of over 250 trade partners in energy and environmental product markets in Western North America. From our 24/7 trade floor in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Powerex trades wholesale energy for terms ranging from hours to days, weeks, months and longer, under standard agreements or on terms that are custom designed to meet our customers’ requirements.
PolySpec understands and anticipates customer needs, which is why we are a recognized leader in polymer construction technology. We are a multi-dimensional organization: a manufacturer of high performance coatings, linings, flooring, sealants, marine
Lime Energy Co is one of the leading companies in the Energy & Utilities sector.