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Request a Call Back 06/20/2011 ... About CPS Energy > News and Features > News Releases > News: New Energy Economy

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### San Antonio Positioning to be at the Forefront of N ew Energy Economy in U.S.

Flanked by CPS Energy Board Chair Derrick Howard and Pre sident & CEO Doyle Beneby, Mayor Julián Castro raised the curtain today on new business prospects fo r San Antonio, as five clean technology

businesses were introduced to an audience of San Antonio community and business leaders at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Downtown Campu s. Agreements developed by CPS Energy with the featured companies include headquarters relocat ions, about 230 technical and professional jobs in the next few years, and funding for education initia tives as well as expanded UTSA partnerships.

After briefings last week in Washington, D.C., in which the Mayor and Beneby outlined the utility’ s efforts, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Age ncy Lisa P. Jackson commented, “San Antonio is stepping up to lead Texas and our nation into a clean energy future—and proving that investing in innovative technology to protect our health and the envir onment is also a great way to create jobs. Committing to cleaner sources of power will mean clean er air for the families in San Antonio and new opportunities for San Antonio’s workforce. By sending a s trong signal of the local government’s support for clean energy, San Antonio attracted innovative Ameri can businesses that will create jobs around technology that helps to keep the air clean. The Obama administration is working to send the same signal to companies around the world and ensure they br ing their business and their jobs to our shores.”

During Monday’s announcement, which was carried live on www.NOWCastSA.com , Mayor Castro expounded on the city’s plans to become a hub for energy development.

“San Antonio has the opportunity to seize a mantle that no city in the U.S. holds today: to be the recognized leader in clean energy technology,” Mayor Cast ro said. "By building a critical mass around research and development that will grow and attract th e brainpower of the 21st Century, San Antonio can be for the New Energy Economy what Silicon Valley is to software and what Boston is to biotech.”

The mayor’s comments followed an announcement by Beneby th at the utility’s coal-fired J.T. Deely Power Plant will be mothballed by 2018, about 15 yea rs earlier than planned. Generating a combined 871 megawatts (MW) of electricity, Deely’s two units were completed in 1977 and 1978 and built as part of an effort to diversify the utility’s portfolio that r elied solely on natural gas at the time. Today, CPS Energy’s mix of generation resources is considered among th e most diverse in the nation, including nuclear, coal, natural gas, wind and solar technologies.

“The CPS Energy Board of Trustees set aggressive goals seve ral years ago,” noted Board Chair Derrick Howard. “In 2010, we raised expectations by asking staff t o increase the utility’s renewable resources to 20 percent, or 1,500 MW by 2020 and have 65 percent of our generation resources be low- or no- carbon emitting. We believe the plan announced today can prop el us to reach these goals.”

Beneby went on to outline the concept of a New Energy Economy.

“With these agreements, we are leveraging our low- carbon and renewable energy resources to stimulate economic and educational development within our communit y. At the same time, we’re reducing power plant emissions by tens of thousands of tons per year—the equivalent of taking almost one million vehicles off our roads,” said Beneby. “At CPS Energy, we have the enviable position of having safe, affordable nuclear power and a new coal plant with th e best available emissions control technology. These resources allow us to support the development of cl ean technologies to generate electricity, while maintaining rates among the lowest in the nation.”

Beneby introduced the CEOs of companies that will partn er with CPS Energy to replace that electric demand and curb energy use by improving efficiency:

 Consert CEO Jack Roberts announced the relocation of that company ’ s headquarters from Raleigh, NC to San Antonio. The move is expected to b ring 50 jobs by the first quarter of 2012, with additional jobs generated through the installati on and use of the company’s sophisticated energy management software in as many as 140,000 San Ant onio homes and businesses by 2015. CPS Energy launched a pilot program with Conser t in 2010 and expects to broaden that pilot to 1,000 customers later this year. Using the Conser t software, customers set user profiles through their home computers for heating and air condi tioning systems, water heaters and pool pumps to manage their homes’ energy demands. Used in conj unction with other smart grid initiatives like advanced metering infrastructure, the pr ogram helps customers automate their energy conservation and manage their bills, while allowi ng the utility to conserve energy during periods of high use. Consert Fact Sheet

 GreenStar

Executive Vice President Rod Gray announced the relocation of their headquarters from nearby Boerne, Texas to San Antonio, along with 35 jobs. While exhibiting a locally assembled street light that uses light-emitting diode ( LED) technology, Gray explained that GreenStar will replace 25,000 street lights in San Ant onio, beginning with downtown, improving the efficiency of decades-old infrastructure. The company projects growth to 50 jobs in 2012 and has committed $10 for every light manufactured in San An tonio to local education initiatives that focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy technolog y. This could equate to $1 million per year in education support over the next few years. Additi onally, Philips Lumileds, who provides the LEDs within the GreenStar light, will help establ ish a Center of Excellence in LEDs at UTSA.
Texas Instruments, who makes the advanced semiconductor techno logy for the lights, is working closely with the university to understand their needs and t o augment the engineering curriculum with TI development tools for the labs. GreenStar Fact Sheet 

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... ColdCar USA CEO Paul Duran II announced the relocation of thei r headquarters and 35 of its 45 jobs from Boerne to San Antonio by December. The compa ny assembles refrigerated trucks used to deliver food items direct to consumers. The compan y is transitioning its vehicles to electric and/or hybrid trucks, and CPS Energy will partn er with ColdCar on the installation of electric charging stations for these vehicles. ColdCar has agreed to provide the utility research data from the vehicle charging. ColdCar USA Fact Sheet

 Summit Power President Eric Redman provided an overview of plans to p rovide 200 MW of purchased power to CPS Energy from a Summit Texas Clean Energy (STCE) coal-fired facility near Odessa, Texas. Construction of the clean-coal plant i s expected to begin in late 2011/early 2012 and be completed in late 2014/early 2015. The f irst-of-its-kind project captures 90 percent of its carbon dioxide and more than 95 percent of its me rcury and sulfur and manufactures commercial products that include electricity, compressed CO2 for enhanced oil recovery, and urea fertilizer and sulfuric acid for farming. In add ition to supplying power to CPS Energy through

a 25- year agreement, STCE will locate its customer relations office here, partner in research with the Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute (TSERI) at UTSA, and host its national Carbon Management Advisory Board in San Antonio. Summit Power Fact Sheet

 SunEdison CEO Carlos Domenech outlined plans for the solar develo per to locate 30 MW of new solar generation in the CPS Energy service territory ; a $300,000 commitment to work with CPS Energy to build an education center in San Antonio for primary and secondary students; and a $300,000 commitment to research and development prima rily with UTSA, in collaboration with CPS Energy and the City of San Antonio. Twenty of the 30 MW planned for San Antonio will be

located at the Dos Rios Water Treatment Plant owned b y CPS Energy’s sister utility, the San Antonio Water System (SAWS). The second installation wi ll be located in Somerset in southwest Bexar County. SunEdison will open a regional office in San Antonio later this year to support the 30MW project and expanding business interests in Texas and t he region. SunEdison Fact

Sheet Beneby closed the event by asking the audience to stay tuned for more. The selection of another solar provider is expected within 30 days, following a Feb. 1 r equest for proposals that resulted in 111 submissions from 38 respondents for another solar installa tion in San Antonio of up to 50-plus MW.

CPS Energy is the nation's largest municipally owned nat ural gas and electric utility, providing service to approximately 717,000 electric customers and 325,000 natu ral gas customers in and around the city of San Antonio. The utility ranks among the nation's lowest-cost energy providers while ranking number 1 in windenergy capacity among municipally owned utilities.



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