Pecan Street CEO shows us unrivaled new laboratory

Smart Grid Today • May 13, 2013 • ,

Test equipment from Dell systems, National Instruments and Schneider is arriving at Pecan Street Inc's new lab, the Pike Powers Laboratory & Center for Commercialization. The organization is bringing to life "the only testing facility in the United States that can do verification of disaggregation algorithms," Pecan Street CEO Brewster McCracken told us during a recent visit to the housing development where the lab is situated, in Austin, Texas. Read More »

White House Blog: Green Button – Enabling Energy Innovation

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy • May 2, 2013 • ,,,,

With support from the Department of Energy, the Pike Powers Laboratory and Center for Commercialization has launched a Green Button app testing center and the Pecan Street Research Institute will also make the largest open set of disaggregated and anonymized consumer energy use data available in the Green Button format. Read More »

How Google Fiber will change Austin tech

Mother Nature Network • April 10, 2013

Austin is the second city to get Google’s gigabit-speed fiber-optic Internet service. Sean Captain, TechNewsDaily Wed, Apr 10 2013 at 12:30 AM Photo: Google Google on Tuesday (April 9) announced that Austin, Texas, would become the second city to get its gigabit-speed fiber-optic Internet service, Google Fiber, with connections starting in mid 2014. (Kansas City, [...] Read More »

Could Your Smartphone Lower Your Electricity Bill?

National Journal • April 3, 2013 • ,,,,

In the summer of 2011, Texas experienced a heat wave that had electricity providers sweating. So many homes were cranking the air conditioning that utility companies feared the electric grid couldn’t handle the strain. One Austin neighborhood stood out. During triple-digit afternoons, homes in the area with south-facing solar panels drew half the energy they needed from their own rooftops. Read More »

Profile – CEO Brewster McCracken

Austin Monthly • April 1, 2013 • ,,

In eighth grade, my science teacher, Mr. Mike Matlock, taught us about solar energy. This man changed my life. He introduced me to something that I would find fascinating. Later, I used lawn-mowing money to buy solar cells with a motor kit. It was fascinating to take this outside, put it in the sun and watch the motor roar to life. From that point on, I thought, There should be some way to harness all that. Read More »

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With Free Sample Data Set, Pecan Street Research Institute Expands Access to World-Class Energy Use Data to Global University Researchers

Press Release • 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 »

Pecan Street Inc. and CCET Launch 18-month Electricity Pricing and Customer Behavior Research

Press Release • 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 »

Pecan Street CEO Brewster McCracken to Brief National Research Council on Early Findings of EV Research

Press Release • 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 »

Pecan Street Inc. Selects Companies for Consumer-Focused Smart Grid Offering

Press Release • 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 »

Pecan Street Project Inc. Reaches Agreement with Galvin Electricity Initiative and Underwriters Laboratories to Implement Perfect Power Seal of Approval

Press Release • 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 »

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