Austin Energy

There is a place where technology giants - Intel, GE, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, Cisco and Applied Materials - are pooling their brainpower to try out the best ideas for distributed solar electricity generation and "smart grid" technologies. Where an electric utility is opening up its power grid with 338,000 customers so these companies can experiment outside the lab, in the real world - and see what really will work.Read more

A great idea germinated in California is now taking root in Texas, starting in Austin.

The City Council has voted to launch "Energize Austin," a new program to make solar more affordable and more available to companies and residents in the service area of Austin Energy (AE), the city-owned electric provider.Read more