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, Policy
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,...
by SPEER | Jan 25, 2015 | email
KATHLEEN HOGAN – DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, U.S. Department of Energy is scheduled as SPEER’s 3rd Annual Energy Efficiency Summit Day 1 Keynote. SPEER’s 3rd Annual Energy Efficiency Summit is scheduled to be held on April 13-14, 2015 in...
by SPEER | Dec 9, 2014 | email, News
The Texas A&M Energy Systems Lab (ESL) recently completed their mandated technical review of the 2015 IECC and IRC energy codes. As fully expected, they found the 2015 energy codes to be more stringent than the 2009 codes, as the existing code reference point. The...
