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City of Austin Austin Energy The University of Texas Austin Technology Incubator Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

Environmental Defense Fund

Limited Federal Regulation and Local Support

Lack of Federal Regulation Speeds Project

University of Texas GreenChoice Panhandle wind Solar

Dell IBM Oracle Cisco Microsoft Applied Materials GE Energy Intel Sematech

Silicon Wafers

More Than Just Usage Control

A new 30MW solar plant Data network 1M residential smart meters 43K business smart meters 86K smart thermostats (90MW) 2 net-zero consumption neighborhoods Rebates and financing for distributed solar Austin is still making money

Decrease carbon emissions by 17-20% by 2020

Increase renewable energy generation to 30-36% of total capacity

Increased efficiency Easier usage monitoring for consumers New business model

City as Laboratory

A Comprehensive First Step

Distributed Clean Energy Smart grid coupled with water systems Smart Appliances Plug-in electric vehicles as storage (V2G) Green building codes Experimental pricing models

Storage vs. load shaping

Private vs. effective

Identify non-sensitive appliances

Public education Strong privacy

policy

Not dependent on other technologies

Enormous energy savings

Excellent pilot program for other cities, if not other utilities

Austin is in a unique position

More smart appliances necessary Expanded storage User interface optimization More distributed generation

◦ Incentives for add-on◦ Zoning requirements for new homes

Water management

Vehicle to Grid

Smart grid allows for:◦ Demand shaping◦ Lower overall usage◦ Increased reliance on renewable energy

Cleaner energy, not less energy is the End

The most important project for Austin Energy

The current business model promotes consumption

Consumers are bad at delayed gratification

Internet-Style Pricing Real-Time Pricing

Flat rate Customers allow

Austin to turn off major appliances as necessary

Customers open up their land to distributed generation

Peak-time penalties

A fallback position Multiple ways of

notifying customers New methods of

generating revenue

“The demise of the ‘spinning meter’ business model is inevitable. Everyone knows it’s coming, and most people now think it’s coming pretty quickly. What has not emerged yet is its replacement. And until we know where the revenue streams will flow from and to, it doesn’t really matter what brilliant technical plan we come up with. The business model is the linchpin.”