The Austin Pecan Street Project has been awarded $10.4 million in federal stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. The money will be used for a smart-grid demonstration project in the central Austin Mueller development. This funding is part of $184.5 million slated for national clean energy grants.
The demonstration project will integrate with Austin Energy’s next generation smart grid platform to create, operate, and evaluate an open platform Energy Internet – a type of smart grid that allows two-way electricity and information flow and is modeled on the architecture of the Internet. Resident and commercial participation in the project will be voluntary. The project will also feature initiatives such as solar power, energy storage and electric car recharge stations.
For more information, read the Austin Energy press release or visit www.pecanstreetproject.org.
Monday, November 30, 2009
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