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434 mentions for advocacy area: Energy Efficiency
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“What's outrageous is we can do so much better reducing people's energy bills by investing in cost-effective energy efficiency. To do that, we need to look at utility regulation that rewards construction of power plants. Past decisionmaking brought us this expensive attempt to bring on nuclear power. Until we realign the incentives, we will continue to get expensive power.”
Coverage of the 2013 Society of Environmental Journalists conference held in Chattanooga, which showcased the city's environmental and sustainability initiatives. The article highlights stories filed by national environmental journalists covering topics from hybrid vehicles and electric…
Climate Knoxville, a community event at Market Square, brought together environmental organizations to discuss climate action and carbon reduction. Network developer Louise Gorenflo emphasized the moral imperative of reducing carbon emissions and highlighted the EPA's Clean…
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy released its annual Energy Efficiency in the Southeast report, finding that Duke Energy's Carolinas utilities lead the region for the fifth consecutive year, accounting for 59% of regional efficiency savings.…
The Office of Public Counsel and renewable energy advocates, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, urged Florida's Public Service Commission to broaden a proposed rule revision on energy conservation goals for utilities. SACE's energy efficiency…
SACE and other stakeholders filed comments supporting modernization of Florida's outdated energy efficiency rules in a PSC rulemaking. The current rules, unchanged since the early 1990s, have left Florida near last place in state efficiency rankings…
“I am hoping that this kind of oversight can be a reality check for TVA. They do have people to answer to ... and what they do matters, particularly to the Tennessee Valley but also to the federal government, which has clearly stated goals, around climate and decarbonization.”
“Driving on Sunshine is an electric vehicle roadshow empowering individuals and communities across the Sunshine State to transition to clean, electric transportation.”
“For an investor-owned company like Duke, the model is they make more money with more capital expenditures. They get a guaranteed rate of return on what they spend so the incentive is to spend.”
SACE released its fourth annual "Energy Efficiency in the Southeast" report showing a 20 percent average decline in energy efficiency savings across the region last year. The report found Duke Energy had the highest efficiency rating…
“The greenest electron is one that you never use.”
Florida Power & Light CEO Eric Silagy argues against arbitrary conservation mandates in an op-ed, claiming FPL's data-driven approach has delivered cost-effective programs while keeping rates low. Silagy criticizes the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy as…
“This thing has got to come to some final understanding of what their charges are going to be and I have to have something that I can take to the Board of Education for approval. We have talked very loosely with the County that we would pay our pro rata share of what the cost of putting the infrastructure in would be for us to use it, but those figures have not been determined yet.”
“What the utilities do is understandable because that is their business model. We don't use energy efficiency as a primary resource.”
Op-ed by Susan Glickman, Florida director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, criticizing Florida utilities' proposed elimination of energy-efficiency programs and arguing that efficiency is a cost-effective alternative to building new power plants. Glickman contends that…
