THE TRIUMPH OF EFFICIENCY
Study: Energy efficiency saved US $800 billion last year
Robert Walton, July 1, 2015 (Utility Dive)
“The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released a new report finding energy efficiency in the United States has come a long way in the last 35 years, slashing in half the ‘energy intensity’ metric that compares energy consumed to the gross domestic product…The United States has cut the amount of energy it uses, compared to each dollar of gross domestic product, from 12.1 thousand Btus per dollar in 1980 to 6.1 thousand Btus per dollar in 2014, ACEEE found...Last year, the study found, efficiency measures saved the United States $800 billion. Most of the improvements over the last 35 years came from advances in energy efficiency itself, ACEEE concluded, and not changes in the broader economy…” click here for more
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