LG Electronics To Participate In Pecan Street Smart Grid Research
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – LG Electronics (LG) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based Pecan Street Inc. to participate in a smart grid demonstration project in Austin, Texas. As part of this two year project with Pecan Street’s Industry Advisory Council, LG will contribute its expertise [...] Read More »
Guest Post: Can we store electricity to transform the grid?
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be joined by Robert Fares, a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin researching the benefits of grid energy storage as part of Pecan Street Inc.’s ongoing smart grid demonstration project. Robert will be contributing a series of guest posts discussing grid storage technologies, and how storage [...] Read More »
Pecan Street CEO Brewster McCracken to Brief National Research Council on Early Findings of EV Research
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 »
Smart Grid Trends to Watch: ICT Innovations and New Entrants
The convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) with the traditional operations technologies (OT) is an ongoing Smart Grid trend. Within the USA and its 3000+ electric utilities, Smart Grid investments focused on optimization of transmission and distribution grid operations through machine to machine (M2M) communications and forays into data analytics for applications ranging from [...] Read More »
How a Texas neighborhood became EV heaven
“This is one of the few places where you can see a Chevrolet Volt traffic jam,” laughs Scott Hinson, the lab director for Pecan Street Inc., an alternative energy project in Austin, Texas. Read More »
Dell Joins Pecan Street Inc. to Expand Research in Smart Grid Technologies
ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 4, 2012– Dell today announced it has joined the industry advisory council of Pecan Street Inc., a nonprofit energy and smart grid research and development organization headquartered at the University of Texas at Austin. As a member company, Dell will provide technology and IT expertise to Pecan Street to advance its [...] Read More »