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Purpose: to enhance the safety, reliability, security, and efficiency of the Texas electric transmission and distribution system through research, development and commercialization of
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Texas selected for DOE grant 11/24/09A Texas industry-research institution partnership has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to carry out a regional demonstration project.

Texas Proposes Project to DOE 9/9/09 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.

PR Newswire - July, 2008 Texas Project Aimed at Lowering Electricity Bills, Reducing Power Use During Peak Demand Launched in Dallas

Dallas Morning News: 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.

Energy Central: Texas Project Aimed at Lowering Electricity Bills, Reducing
Power Use During Peak Demand Launched - November 15, 2007
Advanced metering and utility communications devices are among the cutting-edge 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.

PR Newswire - November 15, 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.

Smart Grid, Texas Syle: Teamwork Prevails - March 9, 2007  "TXU Electric Delivery made history on Wednesday, January 31 and, by design, nobody noticed."

PR Newswire - 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.