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.
Expertise:
Lighting accounts for more than 40% of commercial sector electricity consumption in the United States. Lighting programs to date have achieved tremendous savings through lamp and ballast replacemen…
The term "market transformation" was first coined in 1992 to describe the process which substantially increases the energy efficiency of all new appliances, buildings, vehicles, or other …
Summarizes the findings of a two-year evaluation of the EnergyGuide label. Results of field research including focus groups, interviews, surveys, and a shopping experiment are presented. Recommende…
Reports the results of a market characterization study of the New York State building commissioning sector. The study surveyed providers of professional building services (commissioning providers, …
Same report as Emerging Energy-Efficient Industrial Technologies, but includes chapter on current technologies in NY State.
Identifies and profiles 54 promising energy-efficient, sector-specific, and cross-cutting industrial technologies. The emerging technologies are profiled and include energy efficiency characteristi…
Provides background on the opportunities for market transformation initiatives targeting existing private sector office buildings Characterizes the market segment by size, energy use, and savings o…
Provides background on the opportunities for market transformation initiatives targeting schools, specifically K-12. characterizes the market segment by size, energy use, and savings opportunities….
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