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Active Efficiency
Optimizing energy use by combining traditional efficiency with digital technology, flexible demand, distributed resources, and measured performance.
Current positioning
The concepts continue. The former collaborative does not.
The Alliance is no longer presenting the Active Efficiency Collaborative as an active working group. Its strongest concepts now inform current policy work and remain available here as a practical resource.
Open the legacy concept siteThe concept
Connect, measure, optimize.
In practice
Performance-based utility programs.
Programs can reward measured energy savings or demand reductions over a defined period, aligning incentives with actual performance.
Measured savings
Use transparent baselines, evaluation, measurement, and verification to pay for results.
Flexible participation
Combine controls, connected equipment, and tailored solutions around customer needs.
Time and location
Recognize when and where demand reductions create the greatest grid and cost benefit.
Example source
Putting principles into practice
A Q&A on performance-based utility program models.