headquartered at the university of texas at austin, pecan street inc. is a research and development organization focused on developing and testing advanced technology, business model and customer behavior surrounding advanced energy management systems. simply put, we\u2019re helping reinvent america\u2019s electric system.<\/p>\n
our flagship effort is the pecan street demonstration, a smart grid research project in austin\u2019s mueller community.<\/p>\n
the initiative began in 2008 as a community collaboration to spark the nascent \u201csmart grid\u201d market in austin the way that the mcc and sematech consortia sparked the region\u2019s semiconductor and information technology sectors a generation ago.<\/p>\n
representatives of the founding members \u2013 the city of austin, austin energy, the university of texas, the austin technology incubator, the greater austin chamber of commerce and environmental defense fund \u2013 enlisted the participation of nearly a dozen private companies to explore the technical, economic and policy implications of an energy system that relies on better energy efficiency, locally generated renewable energy and a new economic model for electricity utilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
these developers at pecan street inc. believe that a sustainable economy must be based on promoting clean energy. they work closely with local businesses and the university of texas-austin to develop a systems that reduces the cost of both energy use and generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4893,4907,4899,4910,4891,4895,4904,4890],"tags":[983,1660,486],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-business-economics","category-policy","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-transportation","category-water","category-wind","tag-smart-grid","tag-taxes","tag-the-smartest-of-them-all"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n