Full Title: The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011: Comprehensive Summary
Author(s): Office of Senator Sheehan
Publisher(s): Office of Senator Sheehan
Publication Date: May 1, 2011
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Description (excerpt):
The Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 is a national strategy to increase the use of energy efficiency technologies in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of our economy, while also fostering job creation.
This bipartisan bill uses a variety of low-cost tools to reduce barriers for private sector energy users and drive adoption of off-the-shelf efficiency technologies that will save businesses and consumers money, make America more energy independent, and reduce emissions. Efficiency technologies are commercially available today, can be widely deployed in every state in the nation, and pay for themselves through energy savings relatively quickly.
The Shaheen-Portman bill will help speed the transition to a more energy efficient economy, increasing both our economic competitiveness and our energy security for the coming decades, while stimulating the economy and encouraging private sector job creation.