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Research Report U123 - June 27, 2012
Providing programs to electric utility customers to reduce their energy use through improved energy efficiency is an innovation with roots in the energy crises of the 1970s. The concept that energy utilities should substitute electricity savings in new and existing end-uses for more costly...
Research Report E127 - June 26, 2012
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed joint fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for new cars and light trucks. These proposed standards would reach the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) and 163 grams of...
Testimony - June 25, 2012
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on "Tax Reform: Impact on U.S. Energy Policy." ACEEE submitted comments for the record suggesting that tax reform address depreciation and tax incentives and also suggesting that as part of tax reform discussions, Congress should consider...
Testimony - June 25, 2012
The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on a "Framework for Evaluating Expiring Tax Provisions." ACEEE submitted comments for the record suggesting that Congress should explicitly examine the benefits of the various expiring tax provisions relative to their costs and should...
Research Report E128 - June 21, 2012
Recent studies have shown that information and communication technologies (ICT) can help shift the global market to a more energy-productive and low-carbon economy. Against that backdrop, the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, or GeSI, wanted to identify the key areas where the ICT sector can...
Presentation - June 5, 2012
The first major new source of energy to be discovered in years - "intelligent efficiency" - has the potential to dwarf the impact of other older and better-known sources of energy and will be key to providing the power America needs in a carbon-constrained world, according to a major...
Research Report E125 - June 5, 2012
The potential for new energy efficiency remains enormous. While a large portion of our past efficiency gains came from improvements in individual products, appliances, and equipment, and these device-level technology improvements will continue to play an important role, looking ahead we must take...
Presentation - May 24, 2012
May 23, 2012 - Discussions are occurring over whether there is a need to establish a national standard for energy efficiency program evaluation. In order to assist those discussions by identifying the baseline of current practice, ACEEE conducted a national survey of state approaches to...
White Paper - May 21, 2012
On May 16, 2011, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2011 (Shaheen-Portman; S. 1000). On July 14, 2011, this bill was ordered to be reported out by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee with...
Testimony - May 17, 2012
Comments submitted to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 17, 2012.
