by admin | Mar 28, 2016 | email, News
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 | email, 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 | Oct 21, 2015 | email, News
Texas had the largest improvement of any state in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 9th State Energy Efficiency Scorecard released today and SPEER was cited in the report as a catalyst for the rapid improvement. The Lone Star State jumped 8 positions to 26th and reversed a consistently downward trend, from 11th in 2007’s initial assessment to 34th last year.
by admin | Aug 7, 2015 | email
The Clean Power Plan Last week, the EPA released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, the regulation for carbon emissions from existing power plants. While the final version is more stringent nationally than the draft version, for the two states in which SPEER...
by SPEER | May 18, 2015 | email, News
The recommendations set a path forward to increase energy efficiency in Texas and were developed by a diverse group of 23 individuals, including former regulators and elected officials, and representatives of electric companies, non-profits, manufacturers, academic...
by SPEER | Feb 12, 2015 | email
SPEER’s Third Annual Energy Efficiency Summit will be held April 13-14, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. The Summit will have keynotes, panel presentations, and break-out working groups focused on a wide variety of topics and issues related to energy efficiency,...