“Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.” UseEnergyDecisionCostStandardsImpactArguingConsumersEfficiencyEmissionsEnergy Use Author:Gina McCarthy
“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.” IdeasHelpingHomeJobsEnergyStarsCommonEconomyBillsChinaLocalsCommon SenseConstructionEfficiencyManufacturingBoostEnergy EfficiencyHomeownersOutsourced Author:Peter Welch
“The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.” RealHomeJobsEnergyStarsMillionsIncomeEfficiencyProvenUtilityVermontEnergy Efficiency Author:Peter Welch
“I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.” ThinkingIdeasMovingEnergySmartEfficiencyCleanersEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton
“The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency” WantOrderEnergyBuildingProductsSourceComfortOwnersEfficiencyIntegratedTransactionsEnergy Efficiency Author:John Barth
“I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.” ThinkingShouldEnergyLevelsAchieveWindStandardsCleanCreditNuclearAlternativesEfficiencyConservationCoalCleanlinessRenewable EnergyPortfoliosNuclear EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Pete Domenici
“At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.” TryingDoeEnergyPresidentBreakRecordsCuttingSpeechResearchProgramAddictionEfficiencyFundingEnergy Efficiency Author:Bob Menendez
“Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.” WellsPlayFactsCoursesEnergySidesRolesDoubtGreaterHigherNo DoubtEfficiencyConservationEnergy Efficiency Author:John W. Snow
“Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.” EnergyCompanyIssuesDirectorsFinanceEfficiencyCarbonTradingEnergy Efficiency Author:Elliot Morley
“It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.” EnergyCyclesDevicesEfficiencyViciousHotterEnergy EfficiencyVicious Cycles Author:Bob Gill
“Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.” EnergyTechnologyResourcesSavingFasterEfficiencyImprovingCheaper Author:Amory Lovins
“Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.” ImportantJobsEnergyNaturalHalfMillionsCreationCostBillsProductionsProtectionOilGasEfficiencyProvisionNew JobNatural GasFertilizerGas PricesBlackoutsOil Production Author:Paul Gillmor
“This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.” LawEnergyCasesParticularBasesTransformationHeatEnginesEfficiencyMaximumTheoretical Author:William John Macquorn Rankine
“As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.” WayCountryStatesEnergyPositionIndustryEfficiencyGeographyPlacementEnergy EfficiencyGeography And History Author:Jennifer Granholm
“I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.” I CanPoliticsEnergyCompanyEconomyGrowingCleanClimate ChangeFasterEfficiencyMassachusettsClean EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:John F. Kerry
“The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.” CountryUseEnergyNaturalBusinessIssuesHugeResourcesClimateMake SenseEfficientEfficiencyNatural ResourcesArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Ali al-Naimi
“Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.” WorldUseEnergyGrowthWealthLeaderTechnologyShareCreatingModelsJapanSustainabilityEfficiencyInnovativeExpertiseEnergy Efficiency Author:Yoshihiko Noda
“The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a category-defining product. Powered by Tegra 3, it launches us into a new era of mobile computing, in which quad-core performance and super energy-efficiency provide capabilities never available before. With Transformer Prime, ASUS has once again led the industry into the next generation.” NextEnergyGenerationsProductsIndustryPerformancesAvailableCoreErasPrimeCategoriesCapabilityEfficiencyDefiningNext GenerationMobileComputingPadsNew EraEnergy EfficiencyQuads Author:Jen-Hsun Huang
“Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.” MenEndsPurposeEnergyGivenInterestCommunityPowerfulClassParticularCombinationConcentrationEfficiencyMaintainingAristocracyPowerful ManEnergy Efficiency Author:James F. Cooper
“Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is. It doesn't mean you eat lukewarm food and your beers are lukewarm. You can still have it; you just make a better thing” MeanStillsImportantEnergyBeerEfficiencyImpressRenewable EnergyRefrigeratorsLukewarmEnergy Efficiency Author:Steven Chu
“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.” YearsHouseEnergyLeftWhiteTakenCarSixHundredComplexesGasWhite HouseEfficiencyEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton
“I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.” EnergyBuildingBillsHopefulEfficiencyEndorsementsEnergy Efficiency Author:Barbara Boxer