Category Archives: Energy Efficiency

Has New England Built Too Much Transmission for Reliability?

Posted on March 21, 2012 | Comments Off

The current transmission planning process in New England has created a bias toward funding new infrastructure to support the electricity grid’s reliability at the expense of less costly non-transmission alternatives — including energy efficiency, demand management and distributed generation, said industry sources participating in a recent Clean-Energy Transmission Summit in Boston. Continue reading →

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Energy Efficiency: On-Bill Programs Making Inroads

Posted on December 20, 2011

An innovative energy-efficiency financing tool that enables homeowners and businesses to pay for retrofits via their utility bills is reaching customers in historically underserved markets, says a new report from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The … Continue reading →

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State EERSs Produce Cost-Effective Energy Savings, Reports Say

Posted on July 7, 2011

State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS) have grown in prominence over the last ten years as a means of lowering consumers’ utility bills, reducing the need to build expensive new power plants and decreasing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from … Continue reading →

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