October 1, 2025
New white paper details how waveform insights accelerate breakthroughs for utilities, manufacturers, technology companies, and researchers.
(AUSTIN, Tex. – October 1, 2025) – Pecan Street Inc. today released its groundbreaking high-resolution waveform electricity dataset, establishing a new standard for energy research and product development. Available through Pecan Street’s Dataport, waveform data provides unprecedented visibility into how electricity flows through homes, devices, and distributed energy systems.
A new white paper, Waveform Data: A New Standard for Electricity Insights, explores how waveform advances critical areas of energy and technology research, including:
- Grid Reliability and Planning – Utilities and ISOs can model harmonics, voltage stability, cold-load pickup, and black-start events with unmatched accuracy.
- Product Design and Equipment Testing – Appliance manufacturers and equipment suppliers gain real-world insights into distorted waveforms, improving product lifespan, resilience, and performance.
- AI, Machine Learning, and NILM – Researchers and consumer technology developers can train algorithms on detailed appliance signatures, advancing non-intrusive load monitoring and device disaggregation.
- Cybersecurity and Resilience – Waveform signatures provide baselines for anomaly detection and grid security, enabling proactive monitoring and threat detection.
- Backup Power and DER Aggregation – Virtual power plant providers and storage developers can model inrush currents, harmonic distortions, and real-time control strategies for smarter grid services.
“This is a massive leap forward for electricity research,” said Scott Hinson, chief technology officer at Pecan Street. “Waveform data at this scale unlocks a level of visibility the industry has never had before. From advancing appliance design and machine learning models to solving grid resiliency challenges, this dataset will accelerate innovation across the entire electricity sector.”
The dataset builds on Pecan Street’s legacy of pioneering circuit-level electricity measurement. Since 2011, Pecan Street has provided the world’s largest residential energy dataset for researchers, utilities, and technology developers. With the introduction of waveform data — sampled at 2kHz with 16-bit depth — the organization delivers the highest-resolution residential electricity dataset on the market.
Waveform data and other Pecan Street datasets are available via Dataport. Pricing and license details are available on the Licensing Page. For more information about Pecan Street’s waveform data, contact Scott Hinson at shinson@pecanstreet.org.
Launched in Austin in 2009, Pecan Street established the first energy research network of real customers by equipping participants’ homes with sensors that measure electricity from multiple circuits 24 hours a day. It has evolved into a world-class research organization, helping accelerate the transition to clean energy and expanding its expertise into other data-focused energy needs.
Pecan Street’s database of customer energy generation and use data is the most robust on the planet. More than 500 peer-reviewed papers that used Pecan Street data have been published on issues including climate change, electric system reliability, transportation electrification, and urban resilience.
About Pecan Street Inc.
Pecan Street Inc. is internationally renowned for its pioneering research model, which integrates communities, technology developers, data scientists and advocates to accelerate the pace of innovation for climate and conservation solutions. Pecan Street applies a high-impact research and development approach to high-potential, cost-effective climate solutions that are hindered by a lack of data and technology readiness. Pecan Street is a 501(c)(3) applied research and commercialization institute located in Austin, Texas. pecanstreet.org | LinkedIn | X.
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Rachel Jenkins, Pecan Street Inc., rjenkins@pecanstreet.org, (210) 602-3319.
