Each year the ACEEE ranks each of the states and the District of Columbia based on their energy efficiency policies and actions. The yearly rankings are a great way to see how efficiency is progressing (or stalling) across the United States.
Conversations about energy use in the United States often revolve around the need to support the growth of our national economy by expanding the energy supply. In fact, however, we have a resource that is cleaner, cheaper, and quicker to deploy than building new supply—energy efficiency.
Federal agency actions on energy efficiency under existing legislative authority are saving consumers money, creating jobs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and reducing oil use and imports.