The Advancement of Energy Efficiency

The author cites policy and regulatory issues that have promoted and impeded investments in energy supply efficiency. She narrates the energy battle of the twentieth century between national energy policy to promote investment in energy supply efficiency and renewable resources and the regulatory arenas' actions that discourage its application. The reader will learn how federal agencies, State legislatures and utility commissions and local governments were involved in battles against energy supply competition. The author's experiences in CA and FL bring home the stories of how the war was fought on all fronts: franchise agreements, environmental impact review, land use policies, utility interconnection and standby power agreements, grid reliability and costs, social rate structuring, market access, control of transmission systems and finally, deregulation. Readers then learn how they can influence the outcome on the war to win energy supply efficiency through their leadership initiatives, and how they need to change their own organization segmentation to be successful. Again, the author provides anecdotes from client experiences including privatization of Navy utilities. The author outlines a policy and purchasing strategy on how to acquire energy supply investments and close deals with energy suppliers and service providers that result in successful and profitable partnerships. She explains how customers and energy suppliers can use information technology to reduce problems with decisionmaking, speed up the time needed to implement investments and keep all project stakeholders informed and on track. She challenges the software industry to partner with equipment manufacturers, engineers, financiers, fund managers, power marketers, energy supply companies and others to complete energy supply investment and management software that is the communication equivalent to the energy industry that Microsoft Windows is to world businesses.