- Energy efficiency has met 75 percent of the new demands for energy-related goods and services since 1970 while new energy supplies have met only 25 percent of those demands.
- But energy efficiency remains a highly invisible success story.
- Yes. . . “Science and technology can create much better choices.” (DOE Secretary Chu 2009)
- But we won’t get there unless we bring people back into the process.
- Among the means of integrating a people-centered process of smart technology adoption are a variety of feedback mechanisms.
- The savings are bigger than generally perceived and more persistent than imagined.
- Demand response programs will not generate as much cost-effective energy savings as programs designed for year-round savings.
