Abstract

With a high level of public and regulatory pressure to increase energy savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the time is ripe to further examine opportunities for introducing conservation elements into traditional energy efficiency programs. In this paper, the authors review prior discussions on the concepts of efficiency and conservation. They then pose three categories of approaches for how energy efficiency programs can include energy conservation: including both kinds of information in consumer labels for products and homes, incorporating size limitations into a future iteration of ENERGY STAR for Homes, and adding total energy consumption and other components into programs that target consumer products.

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Market Transformation: Taking Efficiency Mainstream

Utility Regulation, Strategies, and Policies

Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Visions of the Future: Big New Ideas for Energy Efficiency

Energy and Environmental Policy: Planning for Greater Impacts

Sustainable Communities: Systems Integration at the Community Scale

Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends

Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Human and Social Dimensions of Energy Use: Trends and their Implications

Strategies for Appliances, Lighting, Electronics, and Miscellaneous End–Uses

Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends