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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Technology Roadblocks to the Clean Energy Future
The clean energy future we’ve been promised is taking a long time to arrive. What’s standing in its way? Pecan Street examines four roadblocks that are holding back innovation and adoption of cleantech products, services and systems. The paper examines: The Lack of High-Fidelity, Widespread, Accessible Energy Data The Lack of Interoperability How Clean Energy […]
Recommendations for Building Regional Cleantech Hubs
Backed by the Department of Energy, Pecan Street and its partners set out in 2017 to demonstrate and validate a new model for dramatically improving the effectiveness of investments in clean energy technologies and accelerating market entry of disruptive technologies. Pecan Street developed the PLATFORM for Product Launch, a program that integrates data-driven market intelligence, […]
