Texas Cities Fall Short in Ranking of Energy Efficiency Policies

Houston Chronicle’s Fuel Fix. September 17, 2013. Despite the title, four of Texas’ cities ranked in the top half; Austin was the top non-coastal city; and Houston and Dallas were top 5 non-coastal cities. Still, there is much to be done to improve and SPEER is hard...

Texas, Where Oil  Rules, Turns its Eye to Energy Efficiency

New York Times. September 20, 2013 Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, if consistently implemented, could bring energy efficiency and distributed generation to scale. SPEER Executive Director Doug Lewin quoted on size of the opportunity and Texas’...

What Does It Mean for Energy Efficiency to be a Resource?

Forbes. August 7, 2013 EDF publishes an article about SPEER’s report “Toward a More Efficiency Electric Market.” The article explores the various market structures Texas may end up employing. Regardless of structure, efficiency could participate as a resource,...

Texas Falls Behind in Electric Energy Efficiency

Texas Energy Report. June 26, 2013. Texas Energy Report alerts its readers to the publication of SPEER’s report on including energy efficiency in the ERCOT electric market as a competing resource. From the article: “This is a critical juncture for Texas’ electric...