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Sound policy can break down barriers to energy efficiency at the local, state, regional and national levels. The Alliance promotes energy efficiency policies that are meaningful, politically viable and implementable.

Critical to the Solution

Barriers to energy efficiency — including the need for upfront capital investment, lack of consumer awareness and highly-subsidized prices for fossil fuels — often prevent even the "low-hanging fruit" from being picked. Fortunately, sound energy policy can break through these barriers and transform market conditions to create an energy-efficient nation.

Realizing energy efficiency's greatest potential is key component of the Alliance's mission and effective policy is a critical part of the solution. To achieve this goal, the Alliance Policy Team, which includes a research group and a government relations group, focuses on three main tasks:

  • Policy formulation and analysis;
  • Policy advocacy; and
  • Education of policymakers, consumers and the media.

EIA Report Steering Policy Makers Wrong

Date: 
October 15, 1998

Will complying with the Kyoto agreements wreck the U.S. economy?

Flawed Study Fails to Consider Energy Efficiency

Washington, DC, October 15, 1998 — According to the Energy Information Administration's report, Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on U.S. Energy Markets and Economic Activity, released October 9, meeting the U.S. carbon reduction target of 7 percent below the 1990 level would require a carbon tax to induce carbon savings. The effects of this tax, EIA predicts, would reduce the U.S. gross domestic product in 2010 by 4.2 percent.

Efficient Energy of the Future Scores Victory Over Polluting Energy of the Past

Date: 
July 22, 1998

After a cliff-hanging 213-212 loss on a roll call vote on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday night that would have restored Department of Energy funding for energy efficiency, the makers of the bipartisan Fox-Skaggs Amendment pulled a victory out of the jaws of defeat.

After a cliff-hanging 213-212 loss on a roll call vote on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday night that would have restored Department of Energy funding for energy efficiency, the makers of the bipartisan Fox-Skaggs Amendment pulled a victory out of the jaws of defeat.

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