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Smart.Clean.Energy: May 21-25, 2012

Pecan Street Inc., the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and The University of Texas’s Dr. Michael Webber will host a weeklong course on entrepreneurship and business development in the clean energy and smart grid sectors at the Commons Learning Center at the University of Texas at Austin’s JJ Pickle Research Campus.

UPDATE: 2.0 CEUs are available for completion of Dr. Webber’s portion of the course. A certificate of completion can also be obtained for Dr. Webber’s portion of the course, pending a certification exam. Click the below registration button to select these options.

The Smart.Clean.Energy. course is offered in two sessions, or short courses:

    1. “Commercializing Energy Innovations” short course: 1 p.m. Monday, May 21st, 2012 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 (lunch and course check-in Monday from 12-1 p.m.).
    2. “Energy Technology and Policy” short course 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 25th, 2012 (breakfast and course check-in Wednesday from 8-8:30 a.m.).

Location


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The University of Texas at Austin Commons Learning Center
JJ Pickle Research Campus Building 137
10100 Burnet Rd.
Austin, TX 78758
 
Course Information

Smart.Clean.Energy provides participants an inside look at emerging business opportunities in clean energy and smart grid. Presented by international energy experts and the team managing a nationally renowned Department of Energy Smart Grid Demonstration Project, Smart.Clean.Energy includes a solid foundation of concepts, technologies and business skills necessary to take advantage of this dynamic market from today’s thought leaders and cutting-edge businesses.

The lectures and case studies are presented by staff members from 
Pecan Street Inc., the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and Michael Webber, Ph.D., as well as industry experts.

“Commercializing Energy Innovations,” presented by Pecan Street Inc. and ATI, provides participants with knowledge and insider information to start their own smart grid company, including:

  • understanding electricity markets and regulatory considerations,
  • identifying the problems smart grid solves,
  • a market sector analysis of emerging smart grid and clean energy industries,
  • an introduction to entrepreneurship,
  • finding and securing investors,
  • building your business team and
  • incubation and community-building

“Energy Technology and Policy,” presented by Dr. Michael E. Webber (UT Austin), covers:

  • energy fundamentals and policy basics
  • critical technologies to the green energy transition,
  • the nexus of food and energy and the nexus of water and energy,
  • energy and the economy and
  • utilities and transportation of the future

Cost

Smart.Clean.Energy (full course)
Early registration and student/government employee rate: $595
Registration after April 21st: $695

Commercializing Energy Innovations (short course)
Early registration and student/government employee rate: $300
Registration after April 21st: $350

Energy Technology and Policy (short course)
Early registration and student/government employee rate: $425
Registration after April 21st: $475


 

 



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