Industrial
May 10, 2012
ACEEE is improving the methodology it uses to evaluate a state’s policies toward combined heat and power (CHP) for this year’s annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The new analysis will incorporate lessons learned from prior years...
April 26, 2012
Supporters of industrial energy efficiency and combined heat & power (CHP) can breathe a sigh of relief, and might be allowed some guarded optimism as a result of the recent FY2013 appropriations mark-up by the House Energy and Water...
April 12, 2012
Is it possible that something as mundane as the treatment of depreciation by the federal tax code could be negatively impacting investments in energy efficiency? That is the question ACEEE attempts to answer in the new white paper, Depreciation:...
March 16, 2012
ACEEE and the Alliance for Materials Manufacturing Excellence (AMMEX) remain impressed with the President’s focus on the importance of manufacturing to the American economy. So when the Administration released its budget request for fiscal...
February 17, 2012
On Wednesday the Senate Agriculture Committee kicked off its series of hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill with a hearing on “Energy and Economic Growth for Rural America.” The Energy Title of the Farm Bill includes the Rural Energy for...
January 10, 2012
A few weeks ago I presented to state regulatory commissioners at the NARUC fall meeting, and many of the questions coming from utility commissioners were about combined heat and power (CHP). This attention on CHP is not isolated. Congressional...
January 6, 2012
Looking forward into 2012, I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism. Many states and utilities are committed to ramping up their energy efficiency programs this year and even more are considering similar steps. For example, Massachusetts...
December 12, 2011
ACEEE released its most recent version of the popular annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard in October. As in years past, the Scorecard has a category dedicated specifically to ranking states on their combined heat and power (CHP) policies...
November 29, 2011
The Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) at the Department of Energy (DOE) have a long history of producing energy and cost savings for small and mid-sized manufacturers (to say nothing of the enormous workforce development benefits). But now...
November 7, 2011
The manufacturing sector continues to lead the recovery in the U.S., according to the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) October 2011 Manufacturing ISM Report on Business®. ISM’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) survey...