SPEER’s Summer Efficiency Tips

by | Aug 22, 2025 | Blog

  As summer continues blazing onward in SPEER’s territory, we’ve assembled a list of energy efficiency tips to help lower the burden of this season’s energy costs. Optimizing AC and fan use, reducing heat gain, strategic appliance utilization,...

Resiliency is the Name of the Power Outage Game

by | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog

Photo credit: Climate Central   A recent study exposed that Texas leads the country with the most weather-related power outages in a 23-year span, experiencing 210 outages from 2000 to 2023. While the state can be applauded for some energy successes, such as...

A More Resilient America

by | Sep 9, 2020 | Blog, Codes, Local Gov

Katrina, Harvey, Laura, Ida… it’s hurricane season and judging by the unrelenting heat many of us across the nation and in Europe are experiencing, it’s easy to fear that this year will produce some strong storms. When Hurricane Laura slammed ashore along...

Pitching EEday to Cities and Local Governments

by | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog, Local Gov

When you hear energy efficiency, do you think of a broad and ambiguous term? Energy efficiency is being able to perform the same task, but using less energy to do so. It is a simple, low-cost way to reduce emissions and energy consumption while also lowering your home...