American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 (ACELA)
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee reported S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), a unified energy bill, on June 17th, 2009. The bill contains significant energy efficiency provisions including greatly strengthened building codes, a renewable electricity standard with an energy efficiency component, and new energy efficient product standards. ACELA sets no carbon reduction requirements, which are contained in Senator Kerry and Senator Boxer's recently introduced Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
This page provides a summary and related resources to this significant legislation. For more information on the House's climate and energy counterpart, please see our American Clean Energy and Security Act page.
Alliance Resources
- ACES vs. ACELA vs CEJAPA: A Comparison of energy efficiency provisions in recent energy and climate bills 11.20.09
- Alliance Summary of Energy Efficiency Provisions in American Clean Energy Leadership Act
