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Austin Icons Revisit MCC
March 8, 2012
Pecan Street Inc. was pleased to host an historic look back at the MCC competition and what it meant to Texas. Moderated by Evan Smith, CEO of the Texas Tribune, the event featured former Governor Mark White, Pike Powers, Ben Streetman and Bob Inman. Read More »
A Few Smart Ideas to Clean Up and Re-energize Cities
Huffington Post • February 7, 2012
One area where much innovation is needed in urban environments is energy. The Pecan Street project in Austin, Texas is becoming a living laboratory of sustainability and energy efficiency. Read More »
Pecan Street’s aim: Create path for consumers into smart grid’s future
Austin American-Statesman • January 23, 2012
As a lab, Pecan Street wants to be where the New Energy Economy is tested and verified before it goes to market. By extension, McCracken expects many of the innovators to base their companies here. Read More »
Red State, Green City: How Austin Has Become America’s Clean-Tech Hub
Time Magazine • January 7, 2012
Nowhere is that clearer than in the Pecan Street project, a pioneering smart-grid research and demonstration program based in Austin's historic Mueller neighborhood. Pecan Street is a collaboration between Austin Energy, the Environmental Defense Fund, the city of Austin and the university, with much of its financing provided by the 2009 federal stimulus bill. The study is detailing energy and water use at the residential level, gathering data that most utilities barely have a handle on. Read More »
Pecan Street featured on EnergyNOW (Video)
EnergyNOW • January 7, 2012
The smart grid conjures up images of controlling home energy use with iPhones and utilities communicating with customers in real time like never before. But across most of the country, the smart grid is more fantasy than reality – except in the Lone Star State. Correspondent Josh Zepps reports from Austin, Texas on the Pecan [...] Read More »
A Few Smart Ideas to Clean Up and Re-energize Cities
Huffington Post • February 7, 2012
One area where much innovation is needed in urban environments is energy. The Pecan Street project in Austin, Texas is becoming a living laboratory of sustainability and energy efficiency. Read More »
With energy efficient neighborhood, students can do real-world research
Daily Texan • February 2, 2012
The Mueller neighborhood demonstration project, an urban neighborhood built on the old Mueller airport site where researchers with Pecan Street Inc. test green energy products, now has 210 homes that use solar panels and will soon have 100 electric cars within a one mile radius, McCracken said. “One hundred electric cars within a mile is the densest population of electric cars in the U.S,” McCracken said. “Usually five within one mile is considered a lot, so this is huge.” Read More »
Pecan Street’s aim: Create path for consumers into smart grid’s future
Austin American-Statesman • January 23, 2012
As a lab, Pecan Street wants to be where the New Energy Economy is tested and verified before it goes to market. By extension, McCracken expects many of the innovators to base their companies here. Read More »
Red State, Green City: How Austin Has Become America’s Clean-Tech Hub
Time Magazine • January 7, 2012
Nowhere is that clearer than in the Pecan Street project, a pioneering smart-grid research and demonstration program based in Austin's historic Mueller neighborhood. Pecan Street is a collaboration between Austin Energy, the Environmental Defense Fund, the city of Austin and the university, with much of its financing provided by the 2009 federal stimulus bill. The study is detailing energy and water use at the residential level, gathering data that most utilities barely have a handle on. Read More »
Pecan Street featured on EnergyNOW (Video)
EnergyNOW • January 7, 2012
The smart grid conjures up images of controlling home energy use with iPhones and utilities communicating with customers in real time like never before. But across most of the country, the smart grid is more fantasy than reality – except in the Lone Star State. Correspondent Josh Zepps reports from Austin, Texas on the Pecan [...] Read More »
Pecan Street Inc. Selects Companies for Consumer-Focused Smart Grid Offering
Press Release • September 30, 2011
Best Buy, Check-It, Chevrolet, Freescale, Intel, Landis+Gyr, Sony, SunEdison and Whirlpool to provide range of new smart grid and consumer products, including communications platforms, home services systems, smart appliances, charging of cars from home solar panels and one of the nation’s most concentrated residential installations of electric vehicles. Read More »
Pecan Street Project Inc. Reaches Agreement with Galvin Electricity Initiative and Underwriters Laboratories to Implement Perfect Power Seal of Approval
Press Release • July 12, 2011
The Galvin Electricity Initiative and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) reached an agreement with Pecan Street Project to implement the Perfect Power Seal of Approval™ (PPSoA) performance standards. Read More »
Best Buy, Freescale, Intel, Landis+Gyr, LG Electronics, Sony and Texas Gas Service Join Pecan Street Project Industry Advisory Council
Press Release • June 28, 2011
Pecan Street Project Inc. formed its Industry Advisory Council – a collection of member companies that will collaborate with Pecan Street Project’s team of internal and University of Texas (UT) researchers. Read More »
Pecan Street Project, NREL and UT begin design of Home Research Lab
Press Release • April 26, 2011
Pecan Street Project has acquired a site and will soon begin construction of a smart grid interoperability research facility. Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will lead the programming and technical specification development for the facility, which will be located in Austin’s Mueller community. Read More »
Pecan Street Project Tops $3 Million in Direct Funding to University of Texas for Research and Education
Press Release • April 19, 2011
Less than 16 months since beginning active operations, Pecan Street Project Inc. announced today that its direct funding of University of Texas at Austin research, education and technology commercialization has topped $3 million. Read More »