At the Clean Energy Venture Summit 2011, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Director for Clean Energy, Jose Beceiro says Austin has more than 200 companies involved in the clean technology industry. It’s a growing area and more companies are relocating to the city all the time, he said.
In fact, Complete Energy Systems, based in Boca Raton, just signed an agreement with Pflugerville City Council to move into a new energy park. The company, which only has eight employees, says it plans to hire up to 200 employees by 2014.
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Today we’ll be reporting live from the Clean Energy Venture 2011 summit in Austin.
The event starts at 1 p.m. with a utilities futures panel, followed by presentations from five Cleantech Open semifinalists competing for $10,000 in funding and a chance to go to nationals to compete for $250,000.
Then Ideal Power Converters and MTPV, presenters from a past Clean Energy Venture conference, will discuss their accomplishments in the past year.
And a reception takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Austin City Hall to announce the winners of the competition.
So stay tuned.
