energy efficiency

The MEEA Policy Webinar - The New Political Landscape for Energy Efficiency was held on Wednesday, November 28th, 2012. It featured Kevin Cullather, MEEA's Senior Policy Manager, and Stacey Paradis, MEEA's Deputy Director. The webinar outlines the results of the November 2012 elections, including gubernatorial and state legislative elections and subsequent utility commission appointments and discusses how the elections could potentially impact energy efficiency policy decisions in the Midwest.

Motivating commercial customers to actively and consistently apply energy efficient practices is quickly becoming central to many utility business practices. In this installment of the MEEA Technical Webinar series, Mike Presutti and John Lux from Agentis Energy outlined a variety of behavior based energy efficiency programs for commercial customers that are helping utilities accomplish their goals.

The MEEA Policy Webinar: National Study on the Energy Savings of Appliance Standards was held on Thursday March 29, 2012.  The webinar outlined the recently released report, The Efficiency Boom: Cashing In on the Savings from Appliance Standards  by the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) and the American Council on an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). 

In this MEEA Technical Webinar, held on October 25, 2011, hear Ed Thomas of Electric & Gas Industries Association (EGIA) and Tiger Adolf of Building Performance Institute (BPI) discuss  program implementation best practices for residential retrofit program managers to generate homeowner awareness, engage traditional and social media, recruit contractors to participate, motivate homeowners to take action, balance appeal of rebate vs. financing incentives, etc. 

This presentation, entitled "The Case for Consistently Treating and Incorporating Energy Efficiency into the Regional Planning Process" was presented by Senior Policy Manager Kevin Cullather at the Mid-Atlantic Regulatory Conference (MARC) in Rapid City, South Dakota on June 6, 2011.