http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC5a3Wv2OsQ&feature=player_embedded
The Pecan Street Project [in Austin TX] is a community-wide collaboration to fully reinvent the energy delivery system. It’s more than a smart grid project. Pecan Street is an ambitious effort to empower customers and innovators to use the energy system in new ways while making energy cleaner, water usage more efficient and the economy stronger.
“It has the very modest goals of reinventing the energy system of the United States”