Steven Nadel joined ACEEE in 1989 and was has served as executive director since 2001. Before his promotion he served as deputy director and director of ACEEE’s Utilities and Buildings programs. Before ACEEE, Steve worked for Massachusetts’ largest electric utility and largest environmental group and worked with an inner city housing organization in Connecticut. He has worked in the energy efficiency field for more than 40 years and has over 200 publications. His current research interests include energy and climate change policy; strategies to decarbonize the buildings, transportation and industrial sectors; utility-sector energy efficiency programs and policies; and appliance and equipment efficiency standards. Steve earned a MS in energy management from the N.Y. Institute of Technology and a MA in environmental studies and BA in government from Wesleyan University.
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This report finds that appliance efficiency standards are a feasible and cost-effective policy tool for the state of Texas. A package of ten new appliance and equipment energy-efficiency standards …
Written as part of the Tax Incentives Assistance Project, this report describes federal tax incentives for energy efficiency enacted in 2005 and for each provision, discusses strategies for using t…
Even with the passage of the Federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, there are substantial opportunities for states to enact new appliance and equipment standards. This report profiles standards opportu…
An Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS) consists of electric and gas savings targets for utilities, often with flexibility to achieve them through a market-based trading system or a buyout-op…
This report discusses technologies and practices available to improve the efficiency of the major users of oil in the U.S. other than cars and light trucks, including freight trucks, industrial equ…
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was signed into law in August of 2005, the first major piece of federal energy legislation since 1992. This report summarizes the energy efficiency sections of the new…
This research was conducted at the end of the New York Energy $martSM Cool It! campaign in order to characterize the New York State marketplace for energy-efficient commercial packaged refrigeratio…
This report examines a variety of energy efficiency provisions that could be included in federal legislation, ranging from a modest package building on a 2003 House-Senate conference report, to an …
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