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April 11, 2013
For Immediate Release Contact: Colin Rowan, media@pecanstreet.org, (512) 222-9603 (Austin – April 11, 2013) For decades, university researchers pursuing energy innovations and solutions have been hindered by lack of research data on how people use electricity in their homes during the course of the day. But for the past two years, one U.S. university has [...] Read More »
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March 19, 2013
Some of the Austin homeowners participating in Pecan Street Inc.’s groundbreaking consumer energy research are about to embark on yet another first: the nation’s first side-by-side research trial of the comparative impact and benefits of new pricing models and other tools for shifting electricity use away from periods where the electric grid is strained. Read More »
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December 17, 2012
Washington, DC – At the request of the National Academies’ National Research Council, Pecan Street Inc. CEO Brewster McCracken will present to the council’s electric vehicle committee in Washington, DC on Tuesday, December 18, 2012. McCracken will present on early findings from Pecan Street’s electric vehicle research trial in Austin, TX. Read More »
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September 30, 2011
Best Buy, Check-It, Chevrolet, Freescale, Intel, Landis+Gyr, Sony, SunEdison and Whirlpool to provide range of new smart grid and consumer products, including communications platforms, home services systems, smart appliances, charging of cars from home solar panels and one of the nation’s most concentrated residential installations of electric vehicles. Read More »
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July 12, 2011
The Galvin Electricity Initiative and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) reached an agreement with Pecan Street Project to implement the Perfect Power Seal of Approval™ (PPSoA) performance standards. Read More »