Full Title: Energy Efficiency in the Southeast: Fourth Annual Report
Author(s): Forest Bradley-Wright, Heather Pohnan, Maggie Shober
Publisher(s): Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Publication Date: February 14, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
“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 utilities and states of different sizes. Our data findings are presented with both historical context and the most recent policy trends to give a sense of where efficiency savings performance will likely go in the coming years.