The Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council
Coordinates among its members to facilitate the assessment of promising energy efficient emerging technologies that will benefit California customers.

ABOUT ETCC

California’s investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) have combined forces to promote new cost-effective, energy saving technologies—the basis for products and services that strengthen the region’s economy while meeting today’s and tomorrow’s environmental challenges. Read more...

NEWS & TRENDS

 
TRIO Symposium in Downey, California - February 28, 2012
Explore how Utilites can help you speed your energy efficiency or demand response ideas to market.  The highly acclaimed TRIO symposium program provides a venue for education and interactive discussion between utilities, technology companies, entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, tech transfer officers, researchers, and other interested parties. The Symposium gives attendees the opportunity to understand how to work with utility companies for advancement and implementation of energy efficiency and demand response technology in the electricity and gas markets.  For more information and to register, click on the TRIO Symposium link.

ETCC Fourth Quarter Public Meeting - December 6, 2011
The Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council's fourth quarter public meeting is on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at the Double Tree Hotel, 924 West Huntington Drive, in Monrovia, California.  The public is invited to attend the ETCC public meeting hosted by Southern California Edison at the Double Tree Hotel in Monvrovia. View the agenda. View the meeting presentations.

 
SCE Hosted ETCC ET Open Forum Offers 14 New Technologies
The October 26 Southern California Edison hosted ETCC Emerging Technologies Open Forum was a well attended success with 14 companies presenting their technology offering to an audience of just over 100 researchers, entrepreneurs, regulators and California utilities.  The Open Forum is a venue for a few selected emerging technologies companies to present their best elevator pitch to the utility companies and audience.  The event also includes break and lunch-time networking opportunities for the presenters.   To view the presentations, click on the Open Forum link.

 
TRIO Symposium at UCSF, Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco - July 12, A Well Attended Success
The Technology Resource Incubator Outreach (TRIO) Symposium on Tuesday, July 12 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF campus was a well attended success.  With 166 attendees - including energy investors, researchers, energy efficiency technology and service companies, students and business consultants - the Symposium was the largest attended Symposium to date. Based on the participant's event evaluation, the majority of the TRIO participants were pleased with the event and liked the face–to–face conversations, the small intimate setting, the collaborative environment for networking, the ability to network with new-tech vendors in Energy Efficiency and Demand Response and that the information on how the utilities work may help the attendees better position their products. The survey also outlined areas the Symposium can be improved. The how to improve comments will be shared and incorporated into future TRIO Symposiums. Click on the following link to view the agenda and presentations from the Symposium.

 
As mentioned at the TRIO Symposium, the TRIO Roundtable is scheduled for August 30 at the PG&E's Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard Street San Francisco. The TRIO Roundtable workshop will be a more in-depth review of the Utilities programs and the different ways to get involved with them. Since space for the TRIO Roundtable is limited to 25 people, we will be screening the TRIO Symposium evaluation responses that expressed interest in attending the TRIO Roundtable (for entrepreneurs and technologies in the energy efficiency and demand response space). The Rountable is an invitation only event.  Those selected will receive an email with a link to the registration page.
 
CEC PIER Workshops Scheduled for June  21, 23 and 24 in Sacramento
The California Energy Commission is conducting three workshops to discuss and seek advice on their Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program’s proposed initiatives for the 2011/12 fiscal year. The three workshops - June 21, June 23 and June 24 – will be conducted with Research Advisory Groups on Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Smart Infrastructure to explore their proposed research initiatives. The workshop outcomes will help structure future public interest research efforts to maximize ratepayer benefits and eliminate duplication of efforts. The workshop will bring together utilities, researchers, manufacturers, end-users and policy makers from state agencies, federal agencies, and other members of the public. Commissioners may attend the forums.
 
For more information on the workshops times and locations, remote attendance via a web cast and agendas, click on the following link. Additional information on how to participate in these forums contact the Public Adviser’s Office at (916) 654-4489 or toll free at (800) 822-6228, by FAX at (916) 654-4493, or by e-mail at PublicAdviser@energy.state.ca.us.

 
ETCC's Second Quarter Public Meeting at SMUD’s Customer Service Center, 6301 S St., Sacramento - Thursday, June 2
The Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council's second quarterly public meeting was on Thursday, June 2 at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District offices in Sacramento. The public was invited to attend the open portion of the meeting or participate via conference call. View the agenda.

  
Energy Efficiency Financing Conference - May 25 in San Francisco
Please join the California Energy Efficiency Industry Council (Efficiency Council) for our upcoming Energy Efficiency Financing Conference on May 25th in San Francisco.  The full-day event (9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.) will cover the latest developments, resources and opportunities for energy efficiency project financing and investment.
 
The Efficiency Council, the statewide trade association of non-utilities companies that provide efficiency products and services in California, has partnered with event sponsors Pacific Gas & Electric Company and the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), to assemble a series of panels with leading experts on energy efficiency project financing, investments in emerging technologies, and state and federal policies and programs that aim to expand the reach of efficiency financing opportunities. This business-to-business event is designed to provide networking opportunities for those interested in providing funds for efficiency projects and businesses that can utilize such funds as well opportunities to learn about and discuss current and potential public sector programs and policies. Please visit the event website to register. Attendance at this conference is limited, so please register by May 13 to secure your spot.

  
TRIO Symposium at U.C. Irvine - May 12
This Technology Resource Incubator Outreach (TRIO) Symposium at U.C Irvine was a great success. This event had 96 attendees who spent the day learning how to work with the utilities to move their energy efficiency or demand response idea to market. The Symposium, set-up to de-mystify the utilities' processes, was brought to you by the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council. To view the presentations, go to this TRIO Symposium link.

 
"Partnering Toward Innovation" ETCC Open Forum a Success
"Partnering Toward Innovation" was the theme of the successful May 5 ETCC Open Forum at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Sacramento. The forum included presentations by 19 new and emerging trechnologies companies for an audience of investors, researchers, entrepreneurs, regulators and utilities.  The event included break and lunch-time networking opportunities for the presentors and attendees with the California and Pacific Northwest utilities. Here are links to the Open Forum Agenda, the Open Forum Technology Presentations, and an Open Forum Evaluation Sheet (we would appreciate your input on the event).

Innovative Funding Mechanisms to Drive Zero Net Energy Projects in California, Berkeley - Thursday, June 30
Presented by the PG&E Zero Net Energy Pilot Program, the event will include two sessions: Big Picture ZNE Finance: Policy, Context, and the ‘Cost of Getting to Zero' and Financing ZNE Projects: Mechanisms, Incentives and Market Drivers as well as a Case Study Focus: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned in the Financing of ZNE Projects. Click here for more information and to register.

 
ETCC 1st Quarter Public Meeting - Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council's 2011 first quarter public meeting took place on Thursday, March 10 at the Pacific Energy Center, 850 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.   Click here for the ETCC 1st Quarter Public Meeting Agenda. Click here to view the presentations.