Austin Flexes Its SmartGrid Muscle As Pecan Street Data Comes Online
You might call it big data meets the grid. Panelists from Austin Energy, Meridian Solar, ERCOT, and Pecan Street Inc., came together recently at the CleanTX Forum to pitch the value of cleaner and connected communities. With Austin’s Mueller community as the centerpiece, the discussions focused on the impact of electric vehicles and rooftop solar. This time, however, the discussion was more than just visionary. This session had real data — from real people. “Photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicles (EVs) together drive significant swings in the grid, and we really don’t know what that behavior looks like, we don’t have a laboratory,” opened ATI Co-Director Mitch Jacobsen. “But we do, it’s Mueller.” The Mueller community
The View from the Open Compute Summit
The Open Compute Foundation’s Summit 2012, held in San Antonio and hosted by Rackspace, was an outstanding success in every way. John Doyle, Rocky Bullock and Nick Bullock attended the event as representatives of LGE Execs, the Open Compute Foundation’s virtual CFO. We’ve been closely involved with the company’s evolution toward this point, what with Nick setting up their financials and managing their day-to-day budget and Rocky serving as Secretary of the Board. We also have several other clients who are operating in the open-source space these days – Rocky has actually been working with two companies jointly to develop a working partnership in this area, and he’s having strategic discussions regarding the direction
With the boom in mobile applications across fields such as retail, media, video games, marketing and more, software engineers in mobile technologies are in short supply. Since so many companies ...
Outsourcing has become the trend of the last decade as many technology companies have been able to get their product development done at a significantly lower costs without compromising quality ...
Over the last decade, with the explosive growth in outsourcing to India, many daunting new challenges have arisen. Not only is India no longer the least expensive option, but also ...
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich It was good to see the announcement in Austin’s paper of record, the Statesman, today about the launch of Catapult Systems‘ mobile business. Last Thursday, at the ...
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich One of the things that they teach you in B-school strategy class is SWOT analysis. SWOT (pronounced “swat”) is an acronym standing for Strengths ...
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich It’s Wednesday, not Tuesday (the holiday through me off) and this is a bit more of a pure editorial piece than my normal contribution, but ...
Published in Austin American Statesman on April 3, 2011 at 6:41 PM BY BRIAN GAAR, PLUGGED IN In today’s decentralized world of gaming, where more and more people are making video ...
As a mobile application developer, one of the first discussions we have with prospective customers is about who needs to own the intellectual property rights of the code. The discussion ...
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