by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Policy, Press Release
Austin, Texas, August 30 – The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER), a non-profit organization advancing energy efficiency in Texas and Oklahoma, submitted written comments on August 25, 2016, to the Public Utility Commission of Texas...
by admin | Mar 28, 2016 | News, Policy, Press Release
Austin, Texas, March 28– Investor-owned utilities are usually reluctant to help their customers save too much energy because it reduces their profits, but that doesn’t need to be the case, according to a new report from SPEER (the South-central Partnership for Energy...
by admin | Jan 8, 2016 | Events, News
We’re pleased to announce that last month, at the Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency conference (CATEE), SPEER was honored with the conference’s annual “Outstanding Non-Profit Organization” award. Each year, the Texas A&M’s Energy Systems Lab, which...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | News
The Supreme Court recently heard legal arguments on the fate of FERC Order 745, one of the most highly contested cases on electric utility regulation to come before the High Court in years, if not decades. Order 745 is the controversial ruling, issued in March 2011 by...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | News
Utility DIVE, November 2015 In Texas, with the country’s only organized market without federal oversight (ERCOT exists totally within the state’s boundaries), one would think that developing a demand response market would be simpler. Not so, according to...