Keep up with State Energy Efficiency Policy with the Alliance!

 As they say, all politics is local. Same goes for energy efficiency policy too.

Across the country, states and local governments are leading the way in new energy efficiency policies. They're designing financing schemes, restructuring utility payment, and creating new incentives for more Americans to become more efficient every day. State-by-state, innovative new policies are advancing energy efficiency across the country, long before these policies make their way to Washington.

Here at the Alliance, we often report on new developments in national energy efficiency – including climate, energy, and job-creating legislation on the Hill, federal agency appropriations and presidential executive orders – but we've been quieter on the great successes of the states.

For this, the Alliance is proud to announce our new State Energy Efficiency Policy resource. The page will keep you up to date on major policy developments in all 50 states and give you the background you need to fit each policy into the national context.

Here, you can learn about bills like California's influential AB 758, a bill passed in October that would require create unprecedented support for home energy audits, or Illinois' recently-enacted SB 583 that will allow innovative property-assessed clean energy (PACE) financing in the state. These two bills, and scores like them on our state-tracking page, are changing the face of energy efficiency across the country and will form the basis of future national energy efficiency policy.

Every month, the Alliance policy team will update our State Energy Efficiency Policy page to track new developments, including links to news and relevant Alliance resources. For suggestions of improvements, or bills we missed, please contact Carol Guest at cguest@ase.org.