Save energy and save money? This makes way too much sense. The most cost effective solution, that creates the most jobs? Huh? Can use existing technology and can be deployed right away? That's just crazy talk. Just kidding. It makes no sense to transmit solar, wind and other active renewable power on inefficient and wasteful infrastructure. Energy efficiency must come first.

In Virginia, I'm told by elected leaders that the power companies are not the ones standing in the way of progress on renewable energy. It's just the conservative Republicans in our state assembly, who reflexively shut down any attempt to conserve energy. We actually have very little coal in Virginia but it is highly exaggerated. They convince people we need new coal plants by implying everyone in the region and their children will get a job. And then we get nearly fully automated plants that have very few jobs.

The Republicans are at odds with reality and people give up trying because they think we can't over come the power base of a Republican majority in the state house, coal and power companies. Unfortunately, many of us beat up on the power companies and they end up siding with the coal companies. We need to figure out how to separate them. Possibly stop beating up on them and focus our attention on the conservatives refusing to conserve?

Now you are talking! You probably have not looked at the immense waste of needless outside lighting which is destroying the night sky.
Another huge inefficiency is how badly we have allowed our rail system in North America to deteriorate over the last 40 years. It now takes up to 4 times as long to transport bulk goods by rail as it did 40 years ago.This added transport time is money.Some businesses have resorted to truck transport at double or triple the cost.Bottom line more trucks on the road ,more road maintenance,more dangerous highways and more dead truck drivers.
If we did these kinds of things we would use less fossil fuels ,prices for fuel would come down.As a country we would be more efficient in making goods so we should lead the world not act as a drag on progress.Let's do the right thing for climate change and manufacturing efficiency and let the rest of the world catch up to us!

The sad thing in all of this is that the need is so obvious it's painful.

Unfortunately energy efficiency is not seen as revolutionary and therefore is just not "attractive", despite supporting the simplest an most obvious of monetisation models - "It will cost you less !"

Our approach, remote scalable diagnosis and triage of opportunity was sneered at by an energy savings body (I leave them nameless) because - everyone must already be doing that as they have the most efficient equipment available !

When I countered that an energy efficient car left running is overnight has 0% efficiency I was accused of selling snake-oil ! - feel free to contact @kWIQly