The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Edison Electric Institute, often on different sides of energy issues, jointly called on state regulators last week to "actively consider ways to increase energy efficiency within the electric utility industry." In a letter to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, which met last week in New Orleans, the environmental organization and the investor-owned utility industry group urged regulators to go beyond simply removing disincentives to greater efficiency gains to creating a regulatory environment in which power companies can build "a durable business case for utility involvement in end-use energy efficiency."
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