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Energy Efficiency: Jobs Creator

Energy Efficiency: Jobs Creator The national news has been focused lately on some high profile renewable energy failures. But they’ve been missing out on the bigger picture: clean energy jobs, powered by energy efficiency, are growing and here to stay. A recent report from Mark Muro and Jonathan Rothwell of the Brookings Institution shows that clean energy jobs are a robust and growing source of employment across the nation.

Check Out Our Latest Policy Tracker!

Our most recent Policy Tracker is available now, with updates on important energy efficiency policy and building energy code developments from across the Northeast, including:
  • State Energy Efficiency Plans: EmPOWER Maryland 2012-2014 plans and Rhode Island 2012-2014 Energy Efficiency Plan
  • Building Energy Codes: Updates in Connecticut and Vermont and new proceedings in Maryland and Pennsylvania
  • The latest resources from NEEP's Policy Team and others

Policy Tracker

Our most recent Policy Tracker is available now.   Key developments include:
  • State Policy Updates: Delaware Policy Status, New Hampshire Energy Policy Study, New York SBC IV, Rhode Island's New Savings Targets, and Vermont Energy Efficiency Budgets
  • New NEEP Resources: Codes Conference Presentations, Home Energy Efficiency Basics for Real Estate Professionals, and update on DOE Appliance Efficiency Standards
  • New Reports: Energy Efficiency Financing in Vermont and IMT Buliding

Advocacy the theme at DOE Energy Codes 2011 Conference

Hello from Salt Lake City, where the U.S. Department of Energy is hosting its annual energy codes conference. This year's event has a decidedly different feel to it, as codes move from just being in the domain of building officials, to taking center stage for a number of legislative and administrative offices, energy offices, climate change task forces and advocacy groups.

NEEP's EM&V Forum Releases New Research and Evaluation Project Results

NEEP's  Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EM&V) Forum has recently completed two large research and evaluation projects.  The results of these studies advance energy efficiency by supporting program administrator calculations of savings from efficient lighting and unitary HVAC equipment and also serving as documentation for submissions to the region’s forward capacity markets.

Solutions for the Set-Top Box Challenge?

Thanks to NRDC, a longtime partner of NEEP in helping to set new appliance efficiency standards, the challenge of energy waste from television set-top boxes-those ubiquitous devices that receive cable TV signals or digitally record TV shows-is receiving front-page news coverage.
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