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NEWS RELEASE
Media Contact: Patrick Kiker
202.507.4043
pkiker@aceee.org
Calculating the Nation’s Annual Energy Efficiency Investments
Today ACEEE released a new report, Calculating the Nation’s Annual Energy Efficiency Investments, that looks at spending in 2010 (the latest year for which data is available) in the U.S. on energy efficiency goods and services such as energy efficiency program expenditures, sales of ENERGY STAR products, investments in building efficiency improvements, repairs and new construction, trends in manufacturing energy use and investments, and sales of efficient vehicles.
We found that the incremental cost of advancement in energy efficiency (e.g., upgrading from an average refrigerator to an ENERGY STAR model) was $72-$101 billion in 2010, and has delivered about three times the level of new energy services as conventional energy supply ($170 billion).
To read the fact sheet summarizing the report visit:http://aceee.org/fact-sheet/energy-efficiency-investment
To read the report visit: http://aceee.org/research-report/e133
To continue reading the blog post visit:http://aceee.org/blog/2013/02/americans-invest-big-energy-efficienc
About the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy: ACEEE acts as a catalyst to advance energy efficiency policies, programs, technologies, investments, and behaviors. For information about ACEEE and its programs, publications, and conferences, visit aceee.org.
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