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SACE released its fourth annual report on energy efficiency in the Southeast, analyzing utility efficiency savings from 2020 as a percentage of prior-year retail sales. The report demonstrates that despite energy efficiency's proven potential to reduce carbon emissions and customer energy burdens, Southeastern utilities remain significantly underinvested in efficiency programs. The analysis provides historical context and recent policy trends to forecast future efficiency savings performance across the region.
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Energy Efficiency in the Southeast: Fourth Annual Report
Full Title: Energy Efficiency in the Southeast: Fourth Annual Report
Author(s): Forest Bradley-Wright, Heather Pohnan, Maggie Shober
Publisher(s): Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Publication Date: February 14, 2022
Description (excerpt):
"Energy Efficiency in the Southeast", developed by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), tracks recent policy developments and performance trends in electric utility efficiency from 2020. In its fourth installment, it continues to highlight that, despite being a proven low-cost clean energy resource with enormous potential to reduce carbon emissions and customers' energy burdens, Southeastern utilities continue to underinvest in energy efficiency.
Our latest report centers on utility efficiency savings from 2020 (the most recent year with complete data) taken as a percent of the prior year's retail sales – which creates a standard metric to compare performance between utilities and states of different sizes. Our data findings are presented with both historical context and the most recent policy trends to give a sense of where efficiency savings performance will likely go in the coming years.