Michael Webber
“The Pecan Street Project is one of those transformative, once-in-a-generation kind of projects. It truly has the potential to make Austin the global center for innovation in clean energy, and we need to acknowledge that it’s happening because of Brewster McCracken’s leadership.
I was part of the original seven-person Pecan Street Project team that began work in the spring of 2008. Brewster brought us together, chaired each meeting, and led the development of the vision. He built consensus, sought advice, and he personally recruited the Environmental Defense Fund to lead the project.
Once he had recruited a talented team, he stepped back so we could get to work—he didn’t micromanage or ever allow politics to get in the way. Now, the Pecan Street Project is the nation’s most significant clean energy research and development partnership. In addition to Austin, Austin Energy, and the Environmental Defense Fund, the project now includes 24 University of Texas professors, the leadership of Sematech, and talented people from 10 of the nation’s leading technology companies. The best in the nation are literally coming to Austin to work on this ambitious clean energy initiative.
I think it’s important to recognize good political leadership when it happens, and that’s Brewster McCracken. He did it the right way. That’s why so many of us in the cleantech community are supporting Brewster.”
- Michael Webber
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