Pecan Street: Innovative project tests the boundaries of HVAC demand response systems

Austin-based Pecan Street announced this week that it will conduct the field testing and data management for a $2.9 million University of Michigan study that will tackle two of the electricity industry's biggest challenges - management of renewables intermittency and management of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) load growth - the latter of which is projected to be one of the top drivers of global electricity demand and carbon emissions over the next few decades.