Publications
Behind The Meter Storage and 4CP in Texas
This paper summarizes the benefits of behind-the-meter (BTM) assets that can decrease a utility’s net transmission cost through 4 Coincident Peaks (4CP) reduction. The report highlights the lessons learned for the management and control of residential energy storage systems (ESSs). The data shown here is extracted directly from assets installed by Pecan Street Inc. in […]
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Using Big Data to Maximize Microgrid Performance
The concept of microgrids is simple. Designing a microgrid to meet a variety of potential goals and to deliver power during emergencies is more complicated. Based on Pecan Street’s analysis of the high-resolution data from our research network, this paper examines how high-frequency circuit-level electricity data produced by Pecan Street’s residential energy network can help […]
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Lessons from Pecan Street’s Electric Last Mile Project
Conducted in partnership with Austin’s Capital Metro transit agency, Pecan Street’s Electric Last Mile (ELM) project sought to understand the environmental benefits of using small, electric shuttles for first-mile, last-mile, and local transit connections. Through the deployment of three pilot projects around Austin, Texas over a 24-month period, the project evaluated a variety of operational […]
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Distributed Energy Toolkit for Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Microgrids powered by clean, distributed energy resources (DERs) that supply continuous power during grid outages, can increase grid resiliency and security, and provide economic and environmental benefits to HBCUs by allowing participation in utility savings programs that reduce overall energy use and dependence on fossil fuel energy resources. Pecan Street developed this toolkit to […]
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Sparking EV America: Turning President Biden’s EV Charging Agenda into a Generational Transformation of American Transportation
President Biden’s focus on charging infrastructure is a historic confluence of environmental, climate, economic and infrastructure policy. The funding that could come with it could not only speed up customer adoption of electric vehicles, but provide a more strategic, efficient, and equitable investment in charging infrastructure than private companies have provided so far. This […]
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Course Correction: Residential Power Factor
To maximize the impact of efficient technologies, the industry needs to correct residential power factor. Over the past several decades, utilities, building energy managers, and homeowners have been increasingly investing in energy efficiency measures, efficient appliances and rooftop solar. These efforts have saved countless megawatt-hours of energy and millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, […]
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Addressing an Electrification Roadblock: Residential Electric Panel Capacity
By incentivizing electric service panel upgrades for existing homes and requiring larger capacity panels for new construction, we can clear the path for full residential electrification. To download the whitepaper, please enter your name and email address below. A download link will be mailed to you.
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The Race and Energy Nexus
Our entire country is engaged in a broad and long-overdue examination of the roles that race and racism play in our society – our legal system, workforce, communities, politics, schools and more. Race also plays a role in energy – who has access to it, how much they pay for it, who works in the […]
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CCET Electric Vehicle Charge Management Case Study
The work presented in this case study was undertaken across 2012-2014 as part of a Department of Energy-funded research project (DOE Award # DE-OE-0000194) led by The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET). Nearly a decade after this project began, the research and results remain unique and important. With President Biden’s and the […]
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Charging Smart: Analysis & Recommendations for Next Generation Home EV Charging
A quintessential piece of American identity is undergoing a rapid and much-needed transformation – the automobile industry is electrifying. Major vehicle manufacturers are committing to electrify their entire fleets in the coming years, and not a moment too soon. The transportation sector has surpassed the energy sector as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, […]
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