Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.S. economy.

• Addresses broad questions concerning electricity systems and the economy

• Documents innovative, energy-efficiency technologies, practices, and policies

• Estimates the achievable cost-effectiveness and economic impact of energy efficiency in the United States

• Illustrates a range of promising strategies for expanding green savings

• Argues for more market intelligence, monitoring, and evaluation so that energy, economic, and climate goals are met

• Showcases the policy environments that have enabled energy efficiency to thrive in leading cities, states, and countries around the world