by Liz John | Jun 27, 2017 | News, Policy
The SPEER Commission on Energy Policy found general agreement that increased investment in various forms of efficiency and distributed energy could benefit both utilities and consumers, but for this to happen, a new approach to regulation would be required. Read...
by Liz John | Oct 17, 2016 | News, Policy
After reading SPEER’s Improving Access to Smart Meter Data in Texas Report, Greentech Media agrees that the benefits of smart meters aren’t being realized. They go on to state “Texas Has Millions of Smart Meters. So Why Haven’t Third-Party Energy...
by Liz John | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Policy, Press Release
Austin, Texas, October 12 – Texas consumers are not receiving the full value of their investment in smart meters according to a new report, “Improving Access to Smart Meter Data in Texas,” from the South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER)....
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 | Aug 7, 2015 | 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...