Governing Participants
AEP Texas
Austin Energy
CenterPoint Energy
Direct Energy
IBM
Oncor Electric Delivery
TXU Energy
Affliate Participants
ABB
Bluebonnet Electric Co-op
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)
In the News
Texas Selected for Department of Energy Regional Demonstration Project
(November 24, 2009) - 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.
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Texas Proposes Regional Demonstration Project to Department of Energy
(September 9, 2009) - A Texas industry-research institution partnership in Texas is proposing a regional demonstration project aimed at better integrating the vast Texas wind energy resources into the state’s electric transmission, distribution and metering system.
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Texas Project Aimed at Lowering Electricity Bills, Reducing Power Use During Peak Demand Launched in Dallas
(July 10, 2008, Dallas, TX) - A pilot project aimed at cutting electricity bills and lowering Texans’ energy use during late summer afternoons when electricity use is highest begins this week in Dallas. Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technology (CCET) member companies Direct Energy, Reliant Energy and TXU Energy will begin recruiting customers to participate in this unique program.
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Consumers to test high-tech electric meters
(November 16, 2007) - Several electricity companies announced Thursday that they are preparing to sign up customers for a pilot project that will test high-tech meters. TXU Energy, Reliant and Direct Energy will sign up around 1,000 customers in Dallas and Houston for the program, offering goodies in exchange for the right to shut off certain household appliances automatically using the new meters.
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Texas Project Aimed at Lowering Electricity Bills, Reducing Power Use During Peak Demand Launched
(November 7, 2007) - Advanced metering and utility communications devices are among the cuttingedge technologies that will be used in a consumer project announced today that is expected to cut electricity bills and lower Texan’s residential electric use during the late afternoons -- the peak demand period of the day.
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Smart Grid, Texas-Style: Teamwork Prevails
(March 9, 2007) - "TXU Electric Delivery made history on Wednesday, January 31 and, by design, nobody noticed." Those words begin a letter the Dallas-based utility sent out to local officials and others to commemorate a noteworthy first-time event. The utility's broadband-over-power-line (BPL) network sensed a problem and alerted engineers to impending trouble well before the failing equipment could cause customers inconvenience.
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$1.3 million Project will Provide the First of Several "Building Blocks" to help Automate and Modernize the Texas Electric Grid
(April 7, 2006) - The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET), a high-tech, electricity and university consortium,approved the first of what is expected to be a series of new commercialization projects that will put Texas on the road to reinventing the electric system of the 21st Century.
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