Press Releases, News & Technical Documents
October 1, 2025
Pecan Street Releases High-Resolution Waveform Electricity Data to Transform Energy Research and Innovation
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.
September 25, 2025
How Georgia Tech and Lamarr.AI are Using Drones to Save Energy and Money
By Rachel Jenkins, director of operations, Pecan Street – We teamed up with organizations across the country to provide efficiency improvements for lower-income families and demonstrate the collective power of saving energy and money. Our partners in Atlanta took the assignment to a whole new level.
July 24, 2025
Getting Started with Pecan Street’s Free Residential Electricity Datasets
By Cavan Merski, data analyst, Pecan Street – You can explore Pecan Street datasets for free. Find out how you can work with them and where you can find tools and resources to accelerate your work.
May 6, 2025
Charging Data Shows How EVs Can Ease the Grid
By Cavan Merski, data analyst, Pecan Street – EV owners typically fall into one of three distinct time-of-day charging profiles: midday, evening, or overnight charging. Our data allows us to quantify this behavior and test how flexible it is.
April 10, 2025
Voltage & Current Waveform Data Ushers in New Era for Residential Electricity Research
By Scott Hinson, chief technology officer, Pecan Street – Now, we’re taking the next big step. Our latest advancement involves sampling waveform data, capturing direct high-resolution measurements of voltage and current at the waveform level.
March 5, 2025
Exploring the Power of High-Resolution HVAC Demand Data
By Cavan Merski, data analyst, Pecan Street – Pecan Street measures energy use every second from individual home circuits, such as HVAC condensers, fans, and auxiliary resistance heating. This granularity empowers energy researchers, utilities, building designers, and policymakers to make informed decisions in a number of areas.
February 18, 2025
The Future of Virtual Power Plants Rests on Device Interoperability
By Scott Hinson, chief technology officer, Pecan Street – Interoperability didn’t matter much when Edison’s centralized approach to electricity was deployed across the country. But as distributed energy resources (DERs) have proliferated, it has become more than important. It’s essential.
February 17, 2025
Your Thermostat Could Be a Power Plant
By Cavan Merski, data analyst, Pecan Street – Virtual power plants (VPPs) are a cost-effective, flexible solution to the challenges of balancing supply and demand on power grids. And they’re rapidly gaining traction in the energy industry.
January 15, 2025
Walking the Energy Efficiency Walk with Detroiter and Pecan Street Participant Ed Gies
By Colin Rowan, director of communication, Pecan Street – If you go through the list of technology and energy efficiency features in Ed Gies’ southwest Detroit home, it’s hard to believe it’s the same neighborhood his parents lived in after World War II.