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On March 26, 2012, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and six other senators – all of whom sit on the Alliance to Save Energy's Board of Directors – introduced a resolution commemorating the Alliance’s 35th anniversary. The resolution will soon be considered on the Senate floor, likely under unanimous consent.
The Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy is bringing together leaders in energy and environmental policy from the business, government, academic and non-profit sectors, to identify and reach consensus on a set of public policies that, when enacted at the U.S. federal level, would have the potential to make the U.S. one of the world's most energy efficient economies by doubling the productivity of every unit of energy between now and 2030.
Commercial buildings consume 19% of primary energy in the United States, but energy-efficient technologies like the ones used by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory drastically reduce energy use in office spaces.
To support a major market shift toward cloud computing and storage, coupled with the pervasive presence of consumer electronics, data centers have become a significant segment of U.S. energy consumption.
The hundreds of college dorms that competed to save energy in the nation’s second “Campus Conservation Nationals” (CCN) decreased energy use by a whopping 1.7 million kWh of electricity and nearly $160,000.
A lack of time or money can deter people from investing in energy efficiency upgrades. Yet in one Colorado region, energy advisers and financial incentives are helping overcome these traditional barriers.
Plans made at the 3rd Clean Energy Ministerial April 25-26 in London support the UN’s Sustainability Energy for All initiative, which aims to ensure universal access to energy, double the advancement of energy efficiency worldwide, and base the international economy on clean energy.
Alliance to Save Energy President Kateri Callahan is one of 20 new “ambassadors” tapped by the Department of Energy and MIT’s Energy Initiative to help attract more women to clean energy careers and to support their advancement into leadership positions.
The Alliance to Save Energy deplored the House Appropriations Committee’s suggested Fiscal Year 2013 funding cuts which would waste the power of energy efficiency programs administered by the Department of Energy.
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