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The IEA examines the full spectrum of energy issues including oil, gas and coal supply and demand, renewable energy technologies, electricity markets, energy efficiency, access to energy, demand side management and much more. Through its work, the IEA advocates policies that will enhance the reliability, affordability and sustainability of energy in its 31 member countries, 11 association countries and beyond.…
View Full ResourceEnergy efficiency is a proven low-cost clean energy resource, but Southeastern utilities and regulators continue to underinvest and deprioritize it. As a result, households in many Southeastern states have some of the highest electricity usage and monthly energy bills in the nation. The fifth annual “Energy Efficiency in the Southeast” report examines the connection between energy efficiency and utility integrated resource planning, and the impacts that new federal investments will have on energy efficiency deployment in the region.
This year’s “Energy Efficiency in the Southeast” report documents recent policy developments and trends in electric utility efficiency data from 2021. Utility …
View Full ResourceThe Empower Maryland Energy Efficiency Act of 2008 has done a lot to improve energy efficiency in Maryland – saving utility customers money, reducing pollution and helping protect the environment. But now, a decade and a half after it was first adopted, the programs that resulted from it can and should be updated to meet more of the state’s needs and better serve Marylanders. With smart reforms, the next iteration of EmPOWER Maryland can achieve greater total energy and financial savings, better serve limited-income Marylanders, and deliver even more environmental and public health benefits.
Maryland utilities are leaving energy savings …
View Full ResourceEnergy Efficiency 2022 is the IEA’s primary annual analysis on global developments in energy efficiency markets and policy. It explores recent trends in energy intensity, demand and efficiency-related investment, innovation, policy and technology while also discussing key questions facing policy makers.
This year record-high consumer energy bills and securing reliable access to supply are urgent political and economic imperatives for almost all governments. In response to the energy crisis countries are prioritising energy efficiency action due to its ability to simultaneously meet affordability, supply security and climate goals.
While efficiency investment has recently been increasing to reach new record levels, …
View Full ResourceEnergy efficiency programs provide significant benefits to customers, utilities, and the public by reducing energy bills, alleviating household energy burdens, reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and other harmful pollutants, helping utility planners manage energy supply and demand, promoting health and safety for customers, and creating local jobs. Energy efficiency program impacts can be substantial. Some states have saved up to 2.5 percent of annual electricity sales from energy efficiency programs (ACEEE 2020d).
This chapter focuses on customer-funded energy efficiency programs and energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) policies. In recent years, annual funding for customer-funded electricity and natural gas …
View Full ResourceEnergy efficiency provides a least-cost option for meeting energy demand while also lowering energy bills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions published the North Carolina Energy Efficiency Roadmap outlining 32 recommendations for enhancing energy efficiency in the state of North Carolina. This policy brief provides a two-year update on the status of those recommendations.…
View Full Resource“Energy Efficiency in the Southeast”, developed by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), tracks recent policy developments and performance trends in electric utility efficiency from 2020. In its fourth installment, it continues to highlight that, despite being a proven low-cost clean energy resource with enormous potential to reduce carbon emissions and customers’ energy burdens, Southeastern utilities continue to underinvest in energy efficiency.
Our latest report centers on utility efficiency savings from 2020 (the most recent year with complete data) taken as a percent of the prior year’s retail sales – which creates a standard metric to compare performance between …
View Full ResourceBuildings owned by municipal and state governments, universities, schools, and hospitals, otherwise known as the MUSH market, represent great potential for states to pursue energy savings. The opportunity for energy efficiency retrofits in the MUSH market could be as much as $66–208 billion in unrealized energy savings. However, MUSH market building owners face challenges that prevent them from completing the deep retrofits necessary to achieve high levels of energy savings. These challenges include tight budgets and high deferred maintenance needs, a lack of familiarity with available finan…
View Full ResourceEnergy Efficiency 2021 is the IEA’s annual update on global developments in energy efficiency. This year’s edition explores recent trends in energy efficiency markets at the economy-wide and sectoral levels, including developments in policy and investment.
The report also focuses on the role of energy efficiency in achieving net zero emissions in the energy sector by 2050, including an examination of the crucial role of efficient appliances and equipment, as well as all major energy efficiency net zero milestones in buildings, transport and industry.
In addition, the report analyses recent trends in digital innovation, examining how digitalization is expanding the …
View Full ResourceResidential energy use represents roughly 17% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States (U.S.). Studies show that legacy housing policies and financial lending practices have negatively impacted housing quality and home ownership in non-Caucasian and immigrant communities. Both factors are key determinants of household energy use. But to date there has been no national scale analysis of how race and ethnicity affect household energy use and related carbon emissions. In this paper, we estimate energy use and emissions of 60 million household to clarify how energy efficiency and carbon emissions vary by race, ethnicity, and home ownership. We …
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