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Research Report A122 - January 26, 2012
This report outlines the opportunity and strategies for the multifamily housing sector to engage electric and natural gas utilities in order to expand resources available for energy efficiency retrofits and improve the use of these investments. Every state holds opportunities to improve the...
Testimony - January 24, 2012
On January 24, 2012, John A. “Skip” Laitner, Director of Social & Economic Analysis at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), testified at the third and final hearing for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety...
White Paper - January 23, 2012
ACEEE is preparing a series of working papers on how energy efficiency issues might be addressed as part of tax reform. We call them working papers because we solicit feedback and comments on these drafts, so that our analyses and proposals can be refined. We plan to...
Research Report A121 - January 18, 2012
A previous study, Emerging Hot Water Technologies and Practices for Energy Efficiency as of 2011, found that there are many underutilized technologies that could provide about 25-50% energy savings over federal minimum energy efficiency standards. In light of this savings potential, our new...
Research Report E121 - January 11, 2012
The U.S. economy has tripled in size since 1970 and three-quarters of the new demand for energy comes from an amazing variety of advances in energy efficiency—not from other energy supplies. Going forward, the current economic recovery, and our future economic prosperity, will depend much...
Research Report B121 - January 10, 2012
This report focuses on energy behavior programs in the workplace, which aim to reduce building energy use through change in employees’ attitudes and behaviors. The report reviews five energy behavior projects across the U.S. and Canada. Energy savings of the studied energy behavior projects...
Research Report U121 - January 5, 2012
Natural gas energy efficiency programs offered by utilities and related organizations have been in place in many states for 30 or more years. These programs provide incentives and services that assist customers in making improvements and investments in energy efficiency to reduce energy costs....
Fact Sheet - December 21, 2011
A national Clean Energy Standard (CES) would require that some percentage of total energy supply comes from "clean" energy resources. The types of energy resources that are considered "clean" depend on the definition in the CES. Many CES proposals have included energy...
Research Report T113 - December 16, 2011
Heavy-duty vehicle standards, adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2011, represent an important step toward reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector. The standards cover vehicles and...
Research Report E118 - December 8, 2011
High upfront costs continue to be a significant barrier to achieving potential monetary and energy savings from energy efficiency investments across the building sector. Over the past several decades, a number of innovative energy efficiency financing program designs have emerged with the...
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