Governing Participants
AEP Texas
Austin Energy
CenterPoint Energy
Direct Energy
IBM
Oncor Electric Delivery
TXU Energy
Affliate Participants
ABB
Bluebonnet Electric Coop
Comverge
Drummond Group
Energy Xtreme
Electric Power Group
General Electric
GridPoint
Landis+Gyr
National Instruments
Reliant Energy
Sharyland Utilities
Southwest Research
Institute
Texas Consortium for
Electric Energy (TxCEE)
CCET
The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) is a Texas non-profit formed in 2005 to enhance the safety, reliability, security, and efficiency of the Texas electric transmission and distribution system through research, development and commercialization of emerging technologies.
CCET is moving forward with projects to produce innovation in the transmission, distribution, and use of electric energy that will maintain the state’s leadership in the industry and improve the economic well-being of all citizens.
Texas is fortunate to be home to a wealth of energy and technology expertise – an advantage that is the focus of the CCET.
Electric utilities, technology companies, and educational institutions in Texas have recognized the opportunity to work together to enhance the security, reliability, and efficiency of the electric infrastructure in Texas through research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of advanced technologies.
Events
CCET's board meets quarterly. Board meetings, except for executive session, are open by invitation. CCET will be holding its next public board meeting at IBM's North Austin facility beginning at 8:30am on September 10th. Read summaries of prior board meetings here.
Vision
The 21st Century promises to be the technology age of the developed world economies. While technological innovation has long been the driving force of change in the world's developed economies, especially in the United States, there promises to be a new era of change that dwarfs that of the past. Computer technology, the Internet and information technology is reshaping the economic order. The electric industry has been a major source of technological change in the past and will undoubtedly be at the forefront of change in the 21st Century.
The electric industry has spawned technological change in the past primarily through the empowerment of innovations in other industries; powering manufacturing, transportation, the processing of information and other forms of commerce, lighting streets, homes and factories and a multitude of other engines of change. The electric system consisting of transmission and distribution has remained, for a century, fundamentally unchanged. However, that is about to change. The electric energy system itself is poised to undergo fundamental change so that the system of the future will be very different from that of the past. It will change from a "dumb" system to a "smart" system. The electric utilities of Texas intend to be on the leading edge of this coming transition.
News and Announcements
Department of Energy - Smart Grid Stimulus Awards for Texas
A Texas industry-research institution partnership has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to carry out a regional demonstration project aimed at better integrating the vast Texas wind energy resources into the state’s electric transmission, distribution and metering system.
Under the DOE grant, when finally negotiated, the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) will lead a coalition of Texas electricity market participants in carrying out a demonstration project supported by a $13.5 million Federal grant. Click here to read more about the DOE grant.