Karen Austin

May 17, 2012

Watts the Best App? Apps for Energy Contest Now Open for Public Voting

More than 50 software developers submitted entries in the Energy Department’s $100,000 Apps for Energy contest, sponsored by PG&E. And now the public gets to pick their favorite.

May 2, 2012

Austin: Technology Helping Customers Save on Their Energy Bills

Karen Austin, a PG&E senior vice president and its chief information officer, took part in the 2012 Milken Institute Global Conference. She said recently available technology already is saving energy and money for the company’s customers.

White House CTO Aneesh Chopra leads a Q&A featuring, from left, PG&E's Karen Austin, Todd Inlander of Southern California Edison and Chris Baker of San Diego Gas & Electric. (Photos by David Kligman.)

January 19, 2012

VIDEO: Green Button Could Lead to Innovative, Energy-Saving Apps

Saving energy and money is now as easy for PG&E customers as pushing a button—a green button. That’s the premise behind a new technology announced this week during a Silicon Valley visit by White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra.

The Green Button allows customers to download their energy-usage data, enabling them to becoming more energy efficient.

January 18, 2012

White House Challenge Met: PG&E’s Green Button Now Live

PG&E on Wednesday (Jan. 18) publicly launched its “green button,” an online tool that allows customers to download their own energy data to be used to develop third-party applications that can help customers save energy and money.

November 10, 2011

PG&E Continues Focus on Core Business: Delivering Gas and Electricity and Better Customer Care

Tony Earley, PG&E’s new chairman and CEO, has been emphatic. The focus of the utility has to be on its core business of delivering gas and electricity reliably, safely and affordably to its customers, and doing a better job of taking care of those customers.