Posts Tagged ‘homepage’
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New NWEC study looks at commercial EE financing in Northwest
The up-front costs of energy efficiency improvements may just be the king of barriers to energy waste reduction at the scale that will allow us to stop building costly and polluting new electric generating plants. The Efficiency Works! project has published a study that looks at the current energy efficiency financing landscape and a set of potential solutions to opening the clogged funding spigot.
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Solving the Energy Efficiency Puzzle
You have a stake in making our region even more energy efficient than it is. Energy efficiency is the cleanest and cheapest way to meet most of our region’s new energy needs and our goals to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Many organizations throughout the Northwest are already hard at work saving energy. But more can be done.
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Efficiency can save $1.2 trillion in U.S. by 2020
A report on energy efficiency from the consulting firm McKinsey finds that the United States could save $1.2 trillion through 2020, by investing $520 billion in improvements like sealing leaky building ducts and replacing inefficient household appliances with new, energy-saving models.
