February Happy Hour – Bruce Melton on Climate Change
Join us for a visually stimulating discussion of the challenge of our age: climate change. The topics that may be covered are enumerated below and with some audience input a select few will be explored. Bruce Melton is a science author and filmmaker, outreach specialist, professional engineer with primary research in stormwater treatment, and CEO […]
January 2017 Happy Hour – EV Charging Infrastructure
Electric vehicles are poised to transform transportation. Effective charging solutions are critical to that transformation. Established in 2007, Smart Charge Residential was born right here in Austin, TX as one of the first companies in America to focus exclusively on electric vehicle charging station (EVSE) installation and has been delivering that promise across Texas ever since. For […]
October Happy Hour: Texas Energy Policy
In honor of this year’s election season, and given that the election falls 10 short days later, we have chosen to focus on the body politic with a party based panel on: TEXAS ENERGY POLICY October 25, 5:30 – 8:00 pm Scholz Garten 1607 San Jacinto St. Please RSVP. Some knowledgeable and good-natured persons have agreed to take […]
September Happy Hour: Distributed Solar Participation in the ERCOT Market
This past fall and winter, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) – the entity that controls the electric grid that serves most of Texas – convened the Distributed Resource Energy and Ancillary Markets (DREAM) Task Force. The purpose of the DREAM Task Force was to evaluate new rules for distributed energy resource participation in the […]
August Happy Hour
Tuesday, 8/23/2016 We have no speaker lined up for this month but the venue will still be available for our use. For those hardy folks who are not using the final days of summer to travel outside of Austin, we invite you to beat the heat and support our venue by coming to Sholz Garten to […]
Happy Hour: Transitions with Michael Osborne (Tuesday, March 18th)
Join us for an interesting evening that will start with some good old fashioned networking with the Solar Austin community, and will be topped off by a welcome dose of discussion with one of Austin’s finest and most well known personalities, Michael Osborne, Principal at Osborne Companies, and former Special Assistant to the GM at Austin […]