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 SPEER | Apr 28, 2016 | News
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...
by SPEER | Apr 20, 2016 | News
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...
by SPEER | Apr 6, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
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...
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 | Jan 8, 2016 | Events, 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 | Dec 3, 2015 | News
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...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | News
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...
