Jennifer Amann is a senior fellow in ACEEE’s buildings program. In this role, she develops and supports strategic directions for the organization’s efforts to improve efficiency in homes and commercial buildings. Since joining ACEEE in 1997, she has written and presented extensively on buildings and equipment efficiency technologies, policies, and programs. Her current work focuses on maximizing energy savings from key buildings policies including building codes, performance standards, and appliance standards; scaling up deep retrofits and building decarbonization; improving efficiency in indoor agriculture; and analyzing new opportunities for energy efficiency in the buildings sector. She also leads content development for ACEEE’s consumer-focused website, Smarter House. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors of the Attachments Energy Rating Council and the Resource Innovation Institute. Jennifer earned a Master of Environmental Studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Trinity University.
Energy Efficiency And Demand-Response: Tools To Address Texas’ Reliability Challenges
This white paper, building on a preliminary summary version published in May 2021, shows that Texas policymakers could tackle spiking summer and winter power demands while reducing—not raising—over…
Toward More Equitable Energy Efficiency Programs for Underserved Households
Despite decades of growth in energy efficiency program availability for residential utility customers, some types of customers and communities remain underserved, including those who are low and mo…
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Policy Guide: Benchmarking, Rate Design, Water Efficiency, and Additional Policies
The controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector is growing rapidly in the United States. As CEA expands, resource efficiency has become a key consideration for stakeholders. Increasing the avai…
Comments to the Department of Energy on Inflation Reduction Act Home Efficiency and Electrification Rebate Programs
ACEEE filed comments in response to the Department of Energy’s Request for Information regarding best practices for home efficiency and electrification rebate programs the agency is funding under t…
Mercury-free LED replacements for linear and compact fluorescent bulbs are widely available and provide the same or better lighting, longer product life, and much lower total cost than fluorescents…
Pathways to Residential Deep Energy Reductions and Decarbonization
Existing homes hold great potential for saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. To realize that potential, the United States must dramatically increase the adoption of deep retrofits (which pr…
Energy Efficiency and Demand-Response: Tools to Address Texas’ Reliability Challenges
To meet its current power demands as well as the needs of its growing population, Texas must solve its major electric reliability problems, illustrated by widespread power outages during a winter s…
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