How Climate Change is Driving a New Wave of Energy Efficiency Review and Investment

摘要

The recent efforts to mitigate climate change have led to increase regulations that use energy efficiency as a key means of reducing climate change. This can be seen to occur at all government levels (federal, state, and local). In some cases, the requirement only takes the first step by requiring examination of energy efficiency projects without requiring the implementation of the project. In other cases, the goal of a regulation to reduce GHG will inevitably result in the need to implement energy efficiency projects. As governments look at additional ways to address climate change, we will likely see stronger and more direct regulations requiring the examination and implementation of energy efficiency projects.