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Sustainable Steel Principles

In September 2022, six top lenders to the global steel sector — Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, ING, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered and UniCredit — announced the signing of the Sustainable STEEL Prin...
Resource Local Governments

EDF Briefs on On-Bill Financing

EDF has written a national policy brief on on-bill repayment, as well as a specific analysis of California’s on-bill repayment programs.
Example States and State Governments

New Jersey’s EERS

2019’s A-3723 requires each utility to implement energy efficiency measures to reduce electricity usage by 2 percent and natural gas usage by 0.75 percent annually. In 2020, NJ’s PUC issued an order r...
Resource Local Governments

PaceNation.org Model Rules and Database

PaceNation.us published a national database of successful PACE programs, as well as tutorials, program design options, and model language for developing a PACE program at the state or municipal level.
Example States and State Governments

Colorado’s HB 12-1931

Colorado’s HB 12-1931 (2019) updates and adopts standards for water efficiency and energy efficiency that apply to a list of consumer and commercial appliances and other products. The standards are ba...
Resource States and State Governments

Maryland’s GHG Reduction Requirements through EERS

Maryland’s HB 864 directs the state’s public service commission to establish GHG emissions reduction targets for utilities as part of a suite of revisions to the state’s EmPOWER Maryland efficiency pr...
Example States and State Governments

Massachusetts’ EERS

Massachusetts’ Green Communities Act requires that electric and gas utilities procure all cost-effective energy efficiency, which requirements the state’s PUC administers on a three-year planning cycl...
Resource Congress

Report, Build Clean: Industrial Policy for Climate and Justice

This 2020 ClimateWorks report highlights a path to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 within the industrial sector, focusing on four pillars of action. Recommended courses of action include levera...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Enabling Industrial Decarbonization

In December 2022, the US Climate Alliance published Enabling Industrial Efficiency, a 116-page guidebook for state governments on strategies and pathways for policymakers to reduce GHG emissions from ...
Resource Congress

Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys options in the food processing sector, calling attention to a variety of mitigation technology options, practices, and behavioral aspec...
Resource Executive Branch

Petition to Revise Clean Air Act 111 & 112 Standards on Petro-Plastic Production

364 different NGOs cosigned a 2017 EPA petition to update New Source Performance Standards and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants that apply to facilities that convert fossil fu...
Resource Congress

The Inflation Reduction Act

New: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund are announcing the launch of an additional resource on the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker website: the IRA litigation case ...
Resource States and State Governments

Database of State Efficiency Standards

The Appliance Standards Awareness Project maintains a database of state efficiency standards for products that are not federally regulated. At most recent check, it lists standards for thirty differen...
Example States and State Governments

Washington’s HB 1444

Washington’s HB 14444 (2019) establishes efficiency standards for products not federally preempted, including portable electric spas, residential pool pumps, showerhead tub spout diverter combinations...
Example Public Utilities

NY REV Proceeding

The Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding in New York is a comprehensive effort to change how utilities perform system planning, what financial incentives they face, how they make use of distributed ...
Resource Private Entities

Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability

The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability is a resource to guide corporations toward corporate sustainability leadership. A high level summary of the roadmap’s targets is provided here.
Resource Local Governments

NRDC Report, On-Bill Financing

NRDC has written a policy brief on on-bill financing, providing an overview and key considerations for program design.
Resource Executive Branch

DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap

In September 2022, the Dept. of Energy released an Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap, which lays out a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions associated with five sectors: chemical manufacturing,...
Example States and State Governments

Missouri tax deductions for home energy audits and efficiency improvements

In July 2008 Missouri enacted legislation (codified at Mo. R.S. 143.121(8)) allowing homeowners to take an income tax deduction (up to $1000, or $2000 for couples) of the cost of home energy audits an...
Example Executive Branch

Existing standards for petrochemical facilities

At present, petrochemical facilities are regulated under New Source Performance Standards that cover, among other things, fluid catalytic cracking units, fuel gas combustion devices, fluid coking unit...
Example States and State Governments

New Mexico’s HB 291

New Mexico’s HB 291 requires utilities to enhance their energy efficiency programs. The law set a new 2025 target to achieve savings of 5% relative to 2020 sales, raised the cap on efficiency spending...
Resource Foreign

Report, Progress and Future of Breakthrough Low-carbon Steelmaking Technology (ULCOS) of EU

Yan Junjie’s 2018 report notes the current progress and future research of steelmaking program with ultra-low CO2 emission in Europe, among which TGR-BF, HIsarna, ULCORED, ULCOWIN and ULCOLYSIS are co...
Example States and State Governments

Vermont H. 411

Vermont has followed California’s model, approving legislation that adopts current federal energy-efficiency standards for appliances and equipment “so that the same standards will be in place in Verm...
Resource Private Entities

NRDC Report, America’s Data Centers Are Wasting Huge Amounts of Energy

NRDC has written an issue brief advising on best practices for reducing emissions from data centers.
Resource States and State Governments

Maine’s Legislation Adopting California’s Appliance Efficiency Standards

In July 2021, Maine passed appliance standards legislation that effectively adopts California’s appliance efficiency regulations, as those regulations were in effect on January 1, 2021, for the follow...
Resource Congress

Expired Federal EE Tax Credits

Several federal tax credits for energy efficiency were allowed to expire recently, including Sec. 25C Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit for Existing Homes, the Sec. 45L Energy Efficient Home Credit, ...
Example Local Governments

DC Act A23-0539

This bill provides energy efficiency standards for various appliances that are offered for sale or installed in the District of Columbia. One year after this bill is enacted, new covered products must...
Resource Congress

Report, A Critical Minerals Policy for the United States

In June 2023, the Aspen Institute Energy & Environment Program released a comprehensive report on securing a resilient critical mineral supply chain for the United States, which is essential for a wid...
Example Local Governments

Tallahassee Energy Efficiency Loan Program

The Tallahassee, Florida, Energy Efficiency Loan Program provides on-bill financing for residential and commercial energy efficiency and solar projects. When contractors perform service calls, they pr...
Example States and State Governments

New Jersey Energy and Water Efficiency Regulations on Specific Products

New Jersey enacted 2022 legislation regulating energy and water efficiency for a suite of products that are not federally regulated, including showerheads, air purifiers, computer monitors, commercial...
Example Public Utilities

Ouachita Electric Cooperative HELP PAYS program

The Ouachita Electric Cooperative HELP PAYS program approved investments of $1.6 million by the end of 2016. The program caps the cost recovery charge added to customers’ utility bills at 80% of the e...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Reimagining Energy Efficiency Resource Standards

This report examines how states consider energy efficiency in the context of four policy priorities: providing grid benefits, addressing load growth, reducing emissions, and promoting affordability. I...
Resource Executive Branch

RMI’s Decarbonizing Industry Resources Tool

The goal of the Decarbonizing Industry Resource Tool (DIRT) is to help project developers, industrial companies, and investors discover the state and federal financial incentives that may be applicabl...
Example Congress

Cash for Clunkers

The national Car Allowance Rebate System (“Cash for Clunkers”) authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided consumers a voucher for trading in an older and less fuel-efficient ...
Example States and State Governments

New York Green Bank

New York’s Green Bank was authorized and capitalized in 2013 by the Public Service Commission. NY Green Bank offers structured wholesale financial products and solutions to support a suite of clean en...
Resource Congress

Report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry

The Alliance for Global Sustainability published a 2012 report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry. The report serves as an ex-post analysis of other research studies in a series, whi...
Resource States and State Governments

NY’s Proposed Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (2019)

New York’s proposed Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (2019) would create a tax credit for concrete manufacturers that meet the standards to make environmental product declarations. It would...
Example States and State Governments

California’s SB 49

In 2019, California passed SB 49, which directs the California Energy Commission to develop standards for appliances related to flexible demand technologies that reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissi...
Example States and State Governments

Hawaii’s HB 556

Hawaii’s HB 556 (2019) sets minimum efficiency standards for common household products including computers, faucets, and showerheads.
Resource Private Entities

ISO Standard 50001:2018

ISO Standard 50001:2018 provides a framework for businesses to improve the energy efficiency of their operations through steps including establishing baselines, adopting performance indicators, target...
Resource Congress

Report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry

The Alliance for Global Sustainability published a 2012 report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry. The report serves as an ex-post analysis of other research studies in a series, whi...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s EERS

New York’s 2019 Climate Mobilization Act established a 2030 goal to increase energy efficiency from 2012 levels by 23%. The Act also incorporated the governor’s previous target of 185 trillion Btus of...
Resource Public Utilities

NRDC Report, Removing Disincentives to Utility Energy Efficiency Efforts

NRDC has published a fact sheet on electric utility revenue decoupling and the potential value it provides to prioritizing energy efficiency investments.
Resource Congress

ACEEE Report on Recommended EE Code Changes

ACEEE prepared a 2013 report on recommended changes to the tax code that includes ways to refine (previously existing) energy efficiency tax credits, removing tax disincentives to efficiency investmen...
Resource Foreign

Report, Transitions to material efficiency in the UK steel economy

Allwood’s 2013 report, Transitions to material efficiency in the UK steel economy, apply the strategies of material efficiency to reductions in steel demand. The report notes six strategies that could...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Next Generation Standards

The Appliance Standards Awareness Project and American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy wrote a 2016 report on next generation EE standards that identified new categories of products which DOE ...
Resource Congress

Long-Term Model-Based Projections for Energy Use and CO2 Emissions From Global Steel and Cement Industries

Van Ruijvan et al.’s 2016 report presents a global simulation-model for the steel and cement industries covering the full modelling chain from economic activity, to materials consumption, trade, techn...
Resource Foreign

Report, Exploring the Limits for CO2 Emission Abatement in the EU Power and Industry Sectors

Rootzen and Johnson’s 2014 report assessed the prospects for presently available abatement technologies to achieve significant reductions in CO2 emissions from large stationary sources of CO2 in the E...
Resource Congress

Report, State of the Global Paper Industry

Chapter 6 of the global report specifically finds a need for the North American industry to modernize and implement cleaner technologies to match mill emission levels of mills in other regions.
Resource Congress

LBNL report, Opportunities to Improve Energy Efficiency and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US Pulp and Paper Industry

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs’ 2001 report examined over 45 commercially available state-of-the-art technologies and measures for improving energy efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions reductions ...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon legislation covering efficiency for certain appliances

In 2022, Oregon passed this legislation providing energy and water efficiency standards for a variety of products that are not federally regulated, including battery chargers, dishwashers, television ...
Resource Congress

Report, Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry

Risman et al.’s 2020 research report, Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070, details the technologies and policies that can...
Example States and State Governments

Minnesota HF 164

This bill changes Minnesota’s current energy savings goal from 1.5% of annual retail energy sales of electricity and natural gas to 2.5%. These energy savings may be achieved through multiple measures...
Resource Congress

Report, Industrial Energy Use and Carbon Emissions Reduction: A UK Perspective

Griffin et al.’s report makes a detailed analysis of energy demand in the food and drink sector, focusing on steam demand, combined heat and power, heat pumps, decomposition analysis and demand reduct...
Example Public Utilities

Rhode Island Power Sector Transformation Proceeding

In 2017, Rhode Island’s governor requested the PUC embark on a Power Sector Transformation proceeding. The PUC responded with a Phase One report later that year. The report identified existing incenti...
Resource Local Governments

Tracker on Gas Powered Lawn Equipment Regulation

PIRG has launched a new tracker showcasing a variety of policies from around the country regulating gas powered lawn equipment or incentivizing the use of electric alternatives. In a map display, it l...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Beyond Carrots for Utilities: A National Review of Performance Incentives for Energy Efficiency

ACEEE has written a national review of performance incentives for energy efficiency, highlighting financial rewards or earnings opportunities to program administrators, utilities, and shareholders in ...
Resource Private Entities

Report, Cold Steel Hot Climate

This report lays out the case for transitioning the steel industry (particularly Nucor, the company responsible for 29% of US steel production) towards using renewable energy in the production of stee...
Example States and State Governments

EmPower Maryland

EmPOWER Maryland, the state’s energy efficiency program, requires utilities to achieve energy savings reductions equivalent to two percent of sales per year for the 2020-2030 program cycle based on 20...
Resource Congress

Proposed American Energy Efficiency Act of 2015

The proposed American Energy Efficiency Act of 2015 would have called for a 20% electricity savings and 13% natural gas savings by 2030, with annual added savings rising to 1.75% for electricity and 1...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE Primer, On-Bill Energy Efficiency

ACEEE breaks down the differences between on-bill financing, on-bill repayment, tariffed on-bill programs, and other nuances between various on-bill programs for energy efficiency.
Example Executive Branch

Existing Standards for Cement and Lime

EPA regulates cement and lime production and related industries through New Source Performance Standards that cover, among other things, kilms, clinker coolers, raw and rinish mill systems, raw mill d...
Resource States and State Governments

Nevada AB 383 (2021)

In June 2021, Nevada’s Governor signed this bill requiring the Director of the Office of Energy to adopt regulations establishing minimum standards of energy efficiency for certain appliances. Covered...
Resource Local Governments

Report, Financing Clean Energy: Cost-Effective Tools for State Compliance With the Clean Power Plan

The Union of Concerned Scientists published a 2015 report, Financing Clean Energy: Cost-Effective Tools for State Compliance With the Clean Power Plan, which highlights the potential of “green banks” ...
Resource Congress

Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets

Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. Its findings for the chemical ...
Example Local Governments

Columbia MO’s Energy Efficiency Incentives

Columbia MO’s Code of Ordinances Chapter 27, Article III, Div. 8 provides a number of financial based energy efficiency programs including grants, rebates, and loans, which apply to residential and co...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Appliance and Building Efficiency Standards

In May 2022, New York passed S9405, creating new appliance efficiency standards for products that are not federally regulated. It calls for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority...
Resource States and State Governments

Multistate Appliance Standards Collaborative

The Multistate Appliance Standards Collaborative unites several states that have adopted several similar appliance standards. Many of the standards are adopted directly from the California State Appli...
Example States and State Governments

Vermont’s H. 410 (2018)

In May 2018, Vermont passed H410 (Act 139) setting energy and water efficiency standards for 16 products not covered at the federal level. By 2025, these standards are expected to save consumers 435 m...
Resource States and State Governments

Consortium for Energy Efficiency Annual Industry Report

The Consortium for Energy Efficiency has prepares an annual industry report on US and Canadian program industry energy efficiency and demand response budgets, expenditures, and savings, including an a...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE Report, How Utility Energy Efficiency Programs Can Use New Federal Funding

The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) together provide approximately $50 billion for energy efficiency implementation. The programs funded by these laws can...
Example Local Governments

Marin County’s Low Carbon Concrete Code

The Marin County, California Low Carbon Concrete Code was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specific...
Resource States and State Governments

EPA’s Clean Energy Finance Tool

EPA’s Clean Energy Finance Tool is an Excel Tool designed to help municipalities and states make informed choices about the best program(s) for their jurisdictions from among the following options: re...
Resource Local Governments

Report, Program Design Considerations for Developing an On-Bill Financing Program

An assortment of Michigan nonprofits and NGOs prepared a primer specifically for utilities on offering on-bill repayment programs, explaining different program design options.
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Crypto Mining Moratorium

In June 2022, New York passed a crypto mining moratorium. A7389C establishes a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain trans...
Example States and State Governments

New York Energy Law 16-102

New York has codified a list of product efficiency standards outside the federal purview directly into statute at NY Energy Law 16-102.
Example Executive Branch

Existing Standards for Pulp and Paper

EPA regulates pulp and paper production through New Source Performance Standards that cover digester, brown stock washer, and evaporator systems, recovery furnaces, smelt dissolving tanks, lime kilns,...
Example States and State Governments

Washington’s Energy Code Incentives for Efficient Products

Rarely, a state has established a building code that effectively encourages builders to install products that exceed the efficiency of federal standards. This requires the code be designed to avoid pr...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has published a report surveying a panel of experts on traditional models of how utility fixed costs are recovered and the perverse incentives that system sends f...
Resource States and State Governments

Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP)

ASAP organizes the collective effort of efficiency proponents including efficiency, consumer, and environmental groups; utility companies; state government agencies; and others. Working together, the ...
Resource Congress

LBNL report, The Role of Emerging Technologies Improving Energy Efficiency: Examples From the Food Processing Industry

Lung et al.’s report for Lawrence Berkeley National Labs analyzes the impacts that several emerging technologies have had in the food processing industry. The analysis documents energy savings, carbon...
Resource Congress

Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys mitigation technology options in the cement sector, calling attention to a mix of CCS, bioenergy, and low-carbon electricity sources.
Example Local Governments

GreenFinanceSF

Under San Francisco’s C-PACE program, known as “GreenFinanceSF”, (established 2011, updated 2016) commercial property owners can secure 100% financing for RE and EE improvements. Once the RE and EE im...
Example States and State Governments

Connecticut Green Bank

The Connecticut Green Bank was established in 2011 to promote investment in clean energy and efficiency, and includes a program to help homeowners purchase ENERGY STAR appliances.
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Green and Resilience Banks

NRDC has published a 2016 report, Green and Resilience Banks: How the Green Investment Bank Model Can Play a Role in Scaling Up Climate Finance in Emerging Markets, which shows how Green Investment Ba...
Resource Congress

Report, The Impact of Climate Targets on Steel Production

Morfeldt et al.’s 2014 paper, The Impact of Climate Targets on Steel Production – An Analysis Based on a Global Energy System Model, addresses how a global climate target may influence iron and steel ...
Resource Congress

Report, Carbon Capture for CO2 Emission Reduction in the Cement Industry in Germany

Markewitz et al.’s 2014 paper analyzed post-combustion technology for cement plants carried out on the basis of detailed model calculations. CO2 avoidance costs were reported in a range of 77 to 115 E...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Industrial Energy Efficiency: Designing effective State Programs for the Industrial Sector

The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network has published a 2014 guide entitled Industrial Energy Efficiency: Designing effective State Programs for the Industrial Sector, which highlights pr...
Example States and State Governments

Washington appliance efficiency legislation

Washington’s HB 1619 (2022) provides energy and water efficiency standards for a range of products, including dishwashers, commercial fryers and steam cookers, water heaters, portable air conditioners...
Example Local Governments

DC Green Bank

Washington DC enacted a green bank in 2018 through the Green Finance Authority Establishment Act.
Resource Congress

Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets

Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. It identifies the scale of eff...
Resource Executive Branch

White House Report, Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States

In September 2022, the White House published a report on climate and energy implications of crypto-mining in the US. The report concluded crypto-asset activity is estimated to result in approximately ...
Example Local Governments

DC’s PACE Program

Pursuant to DC’s PACE program, the initial investment is provided by private lenders, and the loan is repaid through an assessment on property taxes. D.C.’s Department of Energy and Environment admini...
Example Local Governments

Seattle City Light On-Bill Financing Program

Seattle City Light partnered with the local government and Craft3, a nonprofit CDFI, in 2011 to establish an on-bill repayment program that supports residential energy efficiency upgrades in Seattle. ...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

ACEEE publishes an annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard that ranks states on their policy and program efforts, not only assessing performance but also documenting best practices and recognizing le...
Resource Congress

Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries

Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Example States and State Governments

California’s 20 CCR 1065

Historically the most aggressive state in pioneering efficiency standards for appliances outside the federal purview (See Article 4 under California Code of Regulations Title 20), California has also ...
Resource States and State Governments

EPA Guide to Action for State Best Policies

The EPA has written a Guide to Action for State Best Policies in efficiency, renewables, and CHP. At page 4-72, it contains a helpful guide for state appliance standard programs, including lists of re...
Resource Congress

ACEEE Policy Brief on Federal EERS

ACEEE has written a policy brief on the parameters that a federal EERS should take.
Example Local Governments

Pella IA’s Bright Energy Solutions

Pella’s Bright Energy Solutions (BES) offers multiple incentives to residents for the purchase of energy efficient appliances and other products. These incentives can include energy efficient washers ...
Example States and State Governments

Minnesota’s Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Test

The Minnesota Department of Commerce adopted a new cost-effectiveness test last month that will be used to assess utility energy efficiency programs in the state. New features of the cost test, includ...
Example States and State Governments

California’s Cement GHG Phaseout Bill

In September 2021, California’s legislature passed the first state law directly targeting greenhouse gas emissions from the cement sector. The bill, SB 596, directs the California Air Resources Board ...
Resource Congress

Report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry

The Grantham Institute published a 2012 report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers. The report outlines the options for reducing ...
Example Public Utilities

California IDER Proceeding

The Integrated Distributed Energy Resources proceeding included a competitive solicitation incentive pilot and a utility regulatory incentive mechanism pilot which will facilitate the deployment of cu...
Resource Congress

Report, A review of the technologies, economics and policy instruments for decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing industries

Napp et al.’s 2014 report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the technologies for reducing emissions from industrial processes by collating information from a wide range of sources.
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Clothes Dryer Testing

ACEEE has written a study in the best practices of clothes dryer energy efficiency testing, focusing on improvements in DOE’s testing methodology.
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Climate Reregulation in a Biden Administration

This August 2020 report from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law charts a course for executive action that, under a new presidential administration, would reverse the deregulatory agenda of the Tr...
Example Public Utilities

Southern California Edison Refrigerator Recycling Program

Southern California Edison once ran a program that offered customers a rebate on a new efficient refrigerator if they gave up their old one. NRDC published a comment on the program’s efficacy in 2012,...
Example States and State Governments

Colorado Bans State Agencies from Using Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment

State agencies in Colorado will be banned from using gas-powered lawn equipment with engines of engines of 25 horsepower or less during the summer, according to a rule adopted by the Colorado Air Qual...
Resource Congress

IEA Cement Technology Roadmap

The International Energy Agency’s Cement Technology Roadmap highlights technological levers to lowering emissions in the cement sector.
Example States and State Governments

Rhode Island’s EERS

Rhode Island’s Comprehensive Energy Conservation, Efficiency and Affordability Act of 2006 establishes a Least Cost Procurement mandate, requiring utilities to acquire all cost-effective energy effici...
Example States and State Governments

Southern California Boiler and Water Heater Regulation

In Southern California, a rule adopted in June 2024 targets industrial boilers and water heaters fueled by fossil gas, driving a major shift toward electric boilers and heaters. Regulators in the Sout...
Example Executive Branch

Existing Standards for Primary Metals

At present, EPA regulates iron and steel and primary metals production through New Source Performance Standards that cover, among other things, basic oxygen furnaces and electric arc furnaces at steel...
Resource States and State Governments

Natural Resources Canada Efficiency Regulations

Natural Resources Canada maintains a three-part energy efficiency program and is an international partner in EPA’s voluntary ENERGY STAR programs.
Example States and State Governments

California Phasing Out Gas Powered Landscaping Equipment

California’s AB 1346 will phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines in the state. Small off-road engines, primarily found in outdoor power equipment, emit smog-forming pollutants, i...
Resource Foreign

Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries

Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon SB 978

Senate Bill 978 created an open investigation into multiple aspects of the regulatory structure, including rate design, revenue regulation, grid modernization, integrated resource planning, and others...
Resource Congress

Resources on Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries that seek competitive advantage through physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and byproducts. Collaboration, synergistic connect...
Resource States and State Governments

Oregon Buy Clean Legislation

In March 2022, Oregon passed House Bill 4139, which will require state regulators to conduct life cycle assessments for select construction and maintenance materials used for public infrastructure pro...
Example Local Governments

South California’s NOx Rules for Commercial Food Ovens

In August 2023, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District adopted a first-in-the-nation rule that aims to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from commercial food ovens in the Sou...
Example States and State Governments

New York AB 7779

New York’s AB 7779 (2019) requires an annual state report on appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards and resulting energy and utility bill savings.
Resource States and State Governments

New Jersey’s Clean Energy Act

On May 23, 2018 Governor Murphy signed the Clean Energy Act P.L.2018, c.17. The Clean Energy Act adopts several measures, including: Renewable Portfolio Standard: Requires 35% of the energy sold in th...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Deep Decarbonization Roadmap for the Cement and Concrete Industries in California

This 2019 report offers a roadmap for decarbonization of California’s cement and concrete production, looking at the current status of cement and concrete production in California and developing scena...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE State EERS Database and Toolkits

ACEEE maintains a database of existing state EERS’s and recommends best practices. Their toolkits include model EERS language, guides to program construction, and progress reports on state experience.
Example States and State Governments

New Hampshire’s SB 284

In 2019’s SB 284, New Hampshire established a statewide, multi-use online energy data platform, allowing consumers to monitor their energy usage and encourage energy efficient behaviors.
Resource Private Entities

Report, Zero Carbon Manufacturing Facility

Ball et al.’s 2009 report, Zero Carbon Manufacturing Facility – towards integrating material, energy and waste process flows, explores the challenges faced when attempting to design a zero carbon manu...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Making Smart Products and Systems Efficient

ACEEE has written a study on the efficiency of smart products, providing an overview of current policy measures worldwide, and noting drivers for the development and implementation of low power enabli...
Resource Congress

Report, Review of Policies and Measures for Energy Efficiency in Industry Sector

Tanaka’s 2011 paper, Review of Policies and Measures for Energy Efficiency in Industry Sector, reviews over 300 policies, encompassing about 570 measures, implemented by governments in Brazil, China, ...
Resource Executive Branch

Green Tax Incentive Compendium

Robinson and Cole, a large law firm with offices across the United States, maintains and annually updated Green Tax Incentive Compendium, which collects federal and state tax incentives for renewable ...
Resource Congress

Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys options in the paper sector, calling attention to a variety of mitigation opportunities in energy, emissions, and material efficiency.
Example Local Governments

DC’s MEDSIS proceeding

The District commenced a Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) in 2015, which, in Phase 2, considered separate tracks related to data and information access and ...
Resource States and State Governments

Report, Next Generation Energy Efficiency Resource Standards Update

This report studies what are termed “next generation” elements of energy efficiency resource standards. Of the 26 states with an EERS, 23 (including DC) have next generation features to use the EERS t...
Resource Congress

Report, Clean Products Standard: A New Approach to Industrial Decarbonization

This 2020 report proposes a novel market-based standard for manufacturing, a clean products standard (CPS), which could reduce emissions from the manufacture of these GHG-intensive products. A CPS wou...
Example States and State Governments

Buy Clean Colorado Act

The Buy Clean Colorado (BCCO) Act (C.R.S. 24-92-117) applies to State public projects for which the cost exceeds five hundred thousand dollars and for which an agency of government issues a solicitati...
Example Congress

Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program

As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the $5.8 billion Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program provides competitive financial support to owners and operators of energy-intensive industrial...
Example Executive Branch

ARPA-E

The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy provides funding for advanced research in the metals and petrochemical industry. The performance milestone criteria used by the APRA-E program could be a...
Resource States and State Governments

ACEEE Report, Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: A Progress Report on State Experiences

This 2014 ACEEE report tracks the progress of the 26 states with EERS policies in place as to determine whether they are meeting annual targets, and also examines complementary policy mechanisms that ...
Resource Congress

Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries

Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Example States and State Governments

Vermont Fluorescent Tube Ban

A first-in-the-nation policy in Vermont phasing out most fluorescent tube lights in favor of LEDs points the way for other states to reduce energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and mercury pollutio...
Example Local Governments

Los Angeles PACE program

In 2010, Los Angeles County began offering Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs to both Commercial (C-PACE) and Residential (R-PACE) owners. All improvements that can be permanently fixed to...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, How to Decarbonize Industrial Process Heat While Building American Manufacturing Competitiveness

This ACEEE report addresses decarbonizing industrial process heat, long considered the “hard to decarbonize” sector. The report estimates that 40% of current industrial emissions can be addressed by d...
Resource Congress

Report, Energy Efficiency in the German Pulp and Paper Industry

Fleiter’s 2012 report, Energy Efficiency in the German Pulp and Paper Industry — A Model-Based Assessment of Saving Potentials, assesses 17 process technologies to improve energy efficiency in the pul...
Example Public Utilities

Hawaii Performance-Based Regulation Proceeding

In 2018, Hawaii engaged in a Performance-Based Regulation proceeding, seeking alternative regulatory mechanisms intended to focus utilities on performance and desired outcomes, such as increased renew...
Example Local Governments

Montgomery Green Bank

Montgomery County became the nation’s first local green bank in 2016. The Bank is codified at Montgomery County Code Chapter 18A Article 7.
Resource Congress

Report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry

The Grantham Institute published a 2012 report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers. The report outlines the options for reducing ...
Resource Private Entities

Report, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Competitiveness

The World Resources Institute report, Energy Efficiency and Industrial Competitiveness: The Case of Midwest Pulp and Paper Mills, offers case studies to the point that energy efficiency serves as a de...
Resource States and State Governments

Database of State Efficiency Screening Practices

The National Efficiency Screening Project provides a Database of State Efficiency Screening Practices. The purpose of the DSESP is to provide information regarding state cost-effectiveness screening p...