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During the past two months ACEEE has released two studies looking at the potential for expanded energy efficiency, renewable energy, and demand response to meet Florida’s and Texas’s growing energy demand. These two rapidly growing states face the need for new energy resources if they are to sustain economic growth. Both studies assessed the potential for additional economic resources and made specific policy recommendations that could be implemented by the states’ legislatures and regulators. In both states, recommended energy efficiency and onsite renewable energy policies could address anticipated load growth in electricity consumption over the next 15 years. These policies, combined with expanded demand response, can also meet rapidly growing peak demand requirements in Florida and Texas. Significant elements of our policy recommendations have been introduced as legislation in both states.

In the coming weeks, ACEEE will release the results of macro-economic analyses of our policy recommendations that will show the positive impacts on jobs, consumer electricity expenditure, and overall state economy of these policies to meet expanding demand for electricity relative to investments in conventional resources. An expanded discussion of these reports and links to them are available on our Web site.

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