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A smarter home knows what matters when power is limited
Troy connects the devices inside a home with the energy that keeps them running—bringing control, resilience and practical design into one conversation.
Troy Morgan
Founder & CEO · PanTech Design
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The Energy Exchange
With David Hidinger
Troy Morgan joins David Hidinger on The Energy Exchange to examine connected homes, home automation and the relationship between technology and household energy use.
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Troy Morgan joins David Hidinger on The Energy Exchange to examine connected homes, home automation and the relationship between technology and household energy use.
Published articleDavid Hidinger · Host
Original on MarketScale ↗Adapt Energy
With Alex Teague
How do you design a perfect product? Although the idea of perfection is a subjective one, when Troy Morgan and Alex Teague envisioned their ideal Adapt Energy system, they knew they wanted it to be a reliable one above all else. Morgan and Teague, who are PanTech Design’s CEO and COO respectively, then began designing their product with the end in mind.
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How do you design a perfect product? Although the idea of perfection is a subjective one, when Troy Morgan and Alex Teague envisioned their ideal Adapt Energy system, they knew they wanted it to be a reliable one above all else. Morgan and Teague, who are PanTech Design’s CEO and COO respectively, then began designing their product with the end in mind.
Published articleAlex Teague · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Adapt Energy
With Tyler Kern
In February of 2021, Texas went through an energy crisis, with many residents experiencing rolling blackouts. PanTech Design CEO Troy Morgan joined host Tyler Kern to talk about this phenomenon, what rolling blackouts are, why they occur and how solutions like microgrids and energy automation can help reduce them. “You’ll find rolling blackouts happening throughout the United States,” Morgan said.
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In February of 2021, Texas went through an energy crisis, with many residents experiencing rolling blackouts. PanTech Design CEO Troy Morgan joined host Tyler Kern to talk about this phenomenon, what rolling blackouts are, why they occur and how solutions like microgrids and energy automation can help reduce them. “You’ll find rolling blackouts happening throughout the United States,” Morgan said.
Published articleTyler Kern · Host
Original on MarketScale ↗Adapt Energy
With Ron Callis
Companies like PanTech Design rely on marketing agencies such as One Firefly to help them bring their solutions in home automation and energy management to a market that’s gaining momentum every day. Ron Callis , Founder and CEO of One Firefly, joined Troy Morgan , Founder and CEO of PanTech Design, to discuss today’s home automation and energy management trends.
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Companies like PanTech Design rely on marketing agencies such as One Firefly to help them bring their solutions in home automation and energy management to a market that’s gaining momentum every day. Ron Callis , Founder and CEO of One Firefly, joined Troy Morgan , Founder and CEO of PanTech Design, to discuss today’s home automation and energy management trends.
Published articleRon Callis · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗THE RECORD
Career & credits.
10 verified MarketScale contributions. Full conversations, excerpts and previews retain their original dates; repeated publication copies are grouped. Legacy audio episodes also have an official client listening archive.
TROY / FROM THE CONVERSATIONS
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Control becomes useful at the device level.
Troy Morgan and Ron Callis on connected systems
Troy explains how connecting energy management with home automation changes what a system can do. Instead of only observing the household’s total demand, it can coordinate individual devices. His conversation with Ron Callis links that technical capability with the questions homeowners bring to builders and integrators.
Discussion prompt
Identify which devices should respond when the home’s energy conditions change.
Backup power needs priorities.
Jorge Ortiz and Troy Morgan with host James Kent
Homeowner Jorge Ortiz shares his experience with solar, battery storage and energy automation. Troy explains that a battery has limits and that managing the loads matters alongside storing energy. Their conversation turns resilience into a practical choice about which household functions should remain powered during an interruption.
Discussion prompt
Decide which household functions matter most before an outage forces the choice.
Understanding demand comes before changing it.
Troy Morgan with Tyler Kern on grid demand
Following the 2021 Texas energy crisis, Troy discusses rolling blackouts and the relationship between demand and available supply. He emphasizes helping consumers understand their own use before asking them to adopt automation. The episode connects a large grid problem to choices and controls inside individual homes.
Discussion prompt
Make energy use visible and understandable before introducing automatic controls.
Reliability begins with design decisions.
Troy Morgan and Alex Teague on system design
Troy and Alex Teague describe choosing industrial-grade components and checking systems before shipment. Their discussion connects the desired experience at home with decisions made during design and testing. The historical account illustrates how a reliability goal can shape components, quality checks and responsibility for the finished system.
Discussion prompt
Trace the reliability goal through component selection, testing and final accountability.
Generation and availability are different questions.
Troy Morgan and Blake Richetta on solar and storage
With sonnen’s Blake Richetta, Troy examines why generating solar energy does not automatically mean a home has backup power during a grid outage. The conversation distinguishes production from storage and the controls needed to use that energy. It encourages a more complete discussion of what homeowners expect their system to do.
Discussion prompt
Clarify whether the goal is generating energy, shifting its use or maintaining power during an outage.
Power quality belongs in the connected-home discussion.
Joe Piccirilli and Troy Morgan on power quality
Joe Piccirilli joins Troy to consider the electricity behind increasingly connected homes. The discussion links electronics, changing demand and the consistency of incoming power. It broadens the design question from adding more devices to understanding the conditions those devices depend on.
Discussion prompt
Consider the power supply alongside the devices and controls it supports.
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PanTech’s official archive preserves the original podcast players for conversations about home storage, system design, power quality and living with energy automation.
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About Troy.
Founder & CEO
PanTech Design
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Troy Morgan founded PanTech Design in 2005. His company develops software for Crestron home automation systems, and he is a Crestron Master Programmer. His work on Adapt Energy applies home-automation controls to monitoring and managing household energy.
In MarketScale’s Adapt Energy conversations and The Energy Exchange, Troy examines what happens between power generation and everyday use. He discusses storage, device-level control, grid demand and the decisions a homeowner faces during an outage. Guests bring complementary experience in batteries, power quality and living with an energy-management system. These discussions are presented with their original publication dates, preserving their historical product and market context.
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10 verified MarketScale contributions. Full conversations, excerpts and previews retain their original dates; repeated publication copies are grouped. Legacy audio episodes also have an official client listening archive.
Summaries identify whether they use published articles or transcripts. Series attribution is distinguished from an individually checked appearance.
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