How Rate Reform can Help Turn Energy Efficiency into a ‘Profit Center’ for Utilities
Utility Dive, April 2016 Decoupling and performance-based regulation can make saving energy more appealing to power providers It’s a common quip in energy efficiency circles that the most cost-effective megawatt is a megawatt saved. But for utilities, the...How Energy Efficiency Could Become the New ‘Bridge Fuel’ to Cut Carbon
Utility Dive, April 2016 One interesting result of the Clean Power Plan has been the rafts of new analysis examining the United States’ power sector. Everyone wants to know what it will cost. That new analysis has allowed the South-central Partnership for Energy...SPEER Report Shows How Energy Efficiency Can Ease the Transition to a Low-Carbon Future
Austin, Texas, April 4– The convoluted litigation surrounding the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) has put a roadblock in the way of its implementation, but this should not obscure the fact that a transition to a greener grid will continue, according to a new report from...SPEER Releases Energy Efficiency and Ratemaking Report
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...SPEER Honored with “Outstanding Non-Profit Organization” Award at CATEE Conference
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...The Price is Right? Demand response on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court recently heard legal arguments on the fate of FERC Order 745, one of the most highly contested cases on electric utility regulation to come before the High Court in years, if not decades. Order 745 is the controversial ruling, issued in March 2011 by...Report: Texas Demand Response Issues Mirrors FERC 745 Debate
Utility DIVE, November 2015 In Texas, with the country’s only organized market without federal oversight (ERCOT exists totally within the state’s boundaries), one would think that developing a demand response market would be simpler. Not so, according to...Texas Saga: The Value of Demand Response
SmartGridNews.com, November 2015 A new report from SPEER, “The Debate About Demand Response and Wholesale Electricity Markets,” while focusing on the ERCOT market serving most of Texas, addresses the same challenging issues recently heard before the...News Release: Texas Jumps 8 spots in ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
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.