Meetings
Board Meetings:
September 28, 2005 Organizational Meeting
The organizational meeting of CCET was in Austin, Texas on September 28, 2006. The founding members; Don Cortez, CenterPoint Energy, Steve Houle, TXU Electric Delivery, Billy Berny, American Electric Power and Peter Schulmeyer, Freescale Semiconductors elected officers and adopted Articles of Organization and Bylaws. Officers elected were Robert Howden, President, Milton Holloway, Chief Operating Officer, Diane Hasell, Secretary and Tom Rose, Treasurer. Classes of membership and membership fees were established and a budget for the organization was adopted.
December 7, 2005
The CCET Board of Directors met in Austin, Texas and set the direction for technology development and commercialization for the organization. A draft technology roadmap was presented and six priority projects were identified. Avistar joined CCET as an Affiliate member. Approximately 25 people attended.
January 24, 2006
The CCET Board of Directors met in Austin, Texas on January 24 at IBM’s facilities in North Austin. In addition to addressing CCET policies of management of projects and Intellectual Property concerns the Board heard a series of project proposals from the Technical Advisory Group. The Board heard from Pike Powers of Fulbright & Jaworski, who serves as a member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee for the Office of Emerging Technologies. During the noon period the group toured the IBM Lab that is equipped with many smart system features for the home and business of the future. Approximately 35 people attended.
February 3, 2006
The CCET Board of Directors met by conference call to discuss and decide on an NDA policy and to consider funding of several projects.
April 3, 2006
The CCET Board of Directors met in Houston, Texas at the offices of CenterPoint Energy. The Board considered management issues and heard several project proposals, including a project on Synchronized Sampling for Substation Applications, Smart Meters, Optical Current Sensor and a Battery Storage application. The Board hear from Phil Wilson of the Governor’s Office of Emerging Technologies and Guy Dietrich of the Texas A&M Systems Office of Technology Commercialization. The Board voted to fund the first of project proposals, a project dealing with technologies that help enable the smart grid of the future—Synchronized Sampling for Substation Applications. Approximately 38 people attended. A new member, Austin Energy joined the CCET as a full member and was added to the Board of Directors.
July 13, 2006
The CCET Board of Directors met in Austin, Texas at the North Austin offices of National Instruments. The Board heard from the members of the Technical Advisory Group on several project proposals. Dr. T of National Instruments presented a background overview of National Instruments’ capabilities in the electric industry.
October 10, 2006
The CCET Board of Directors met in Dallas, Texas at the offices of TXU Electric Delivery. The Board heard proposals for funding on a number of projects. The Technical Advisory Group presented several proposals including RTU Design, Smart Meters Enhancement and Demand Response Pilot projects. National Instruments and Direct Energy joined as full members and were added to the Board of Directors by vote of the Board. TXU Energy joined as an Affiliate member. Approximately 35 people attended the meeting.
During November 2006 Intel, GridPoint and Itron joined CCET as Affiliate members.
January 11, 2007
The CCET Board of Directors met in Austin, Texas at Austin Energy Headquarters in an all-day meeting. The Board heard status reports on ongoing projects, and entertained proposals on a number of other projects. John Hanks of National Instruments made a presentation on the components of commercialization entitled "From Concept to Product". The group discussed CCET’s relationship with Other Collaborative Organizations, especially EPRI.
Considerable discussion followed a presentation by Good Company regarding a plan for a Texas Demand Response Pilot project. The Technical Advisory Group presented status reports on several proposals including RTU Design, and Smart Meters Enhancement. Approximately 35 people attended the meeting.
The general meeting was followed by an Executive Session to attend to business matters of the organization.
February 21, 2007
The CCET Board of Directors met in a conference call meeting to consider further developments on the DR Pilot project. A decision to fund the project was approved, subject to final approval of contract arrangements to implement the project.
April 18, 2007
The CCET Board of Directors met in Executive Session at the UT Club at The University of Texas at Austin. IBM was elected to the Board of Directors, Dr. Ben Streetman, Dean of Engineering at UT Austin, was elected to the Board of Directors as an Advisor Director, and Good Company was recognized as an Affiliate member. A report was presented by Phil Wilson of Governor Perry’s Office and Chairman Paul Hudson of the Texas Public Utilities Commission presented his view of the future of the electric energy sector.
A status report on DR Pilot was presented by Bob Pohl of Fowler Energy Company and Jay Zarnikau of Frontier Associates. The Board approved funding for the RTU Project Phase I. Discussion led to new plans for strengthening the CCET relationship with Texas universities.
Technical Advisory Group Meetings:
September 28, 2005
The Technical Advisory Group met in Austin, Texas to organize and to begin development of a roadmap of priority technology commercialization projects.
November 11, 2005
The Technical Advisory Group met in Austin, Texas to discuss a draft technology roadmap and to develop a list of priority technology commercialization projects for presentation to the CCET Board.
December 5, 2005
The Technical Advisory Group met in Houston, Texas at CenterPoint Energy in a Workshop to get input on project ideas from the CCET member representatives, TxCEE members of the university consortium and from interested vendors to the electric industry. The Workshop resulted in the development of several project ideas that were presented to the CCET Board at the December 7, 2005 Board meeting. Several project ideas were identified for presentation to the Board, including. 1) Synchronized Sampling in Transmission System Automation, 2) Time Stamping Chip Set, 3) Advanced Composite Electric Utility Tower and Pole Design, 4) Storage Demonstration, and 5) four projects dealing with Automation of Distribution. Approximately 33 people attended the Workshop.
May 10, 2006
The Technical Advisory Group met in Austin,Texas at Austin Energy in a Workshop to get input on project ideas from the CCET member representatives, TxCEE members of the university consortium and from interested vendors to the electric industry. Presentation included technologies involving BPL, Storage, and Smart Meters, The Workshop resulted in the development of several project ideas that were presented to the CCET Board at the July 13, 2006 Board meeting. Approximately 35 people attended the Workshop.
September 21, 2006
The Technical Advisory Group met in Austin,Texas at the CCET offices in a Workshop to get input on project ideas from the CCET member representatives, TxCEE members of the university consortium and from interested vendors to the electric industry. Presentation included technologies involving Smart Meters, a Demand Response Pilot, and an RTU Design. Intel Solutions made a presentation to the group during the lunch time. The Workshop resulted in the development of several project ideas that were presented to the CCET Board at the October 10, 2006 Board meeting. Approximately 30 people attended the Workshop.
April 3, 2007
The Technical Advisory Group of CCET met on April 3, 2007 at the Headquarters Offices of Austin Energy. The topic for discussion and planning was Distribution Systems Integration technologies (DSI). Presentations were made by Austin Energy, CenterPoint Energy, TXU Electric Delivery/CURRENT Group, Intel, IBM, National Instruments and TxCEE. Further work will follow to develop firm project ideas and proposals on the DSI topic to complement the other CCET projects that are under development.