Sentences with phrase «eer requires»
While an RES requires that electric utilities generate a certain percentage of electricity from renewable sources, an EERS requires that they achieve a percentage reduction in energy sales from energy efficiency measures.
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The strongest EERS requirements exist in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which require more than 2.5 % new savings annually.
It mandated a combined renewable electricity and energy efficiency standard (RES / EERS) requiring that 20 % of electricity sales by 2020 be met by renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Local Law 87 of New York City's Greener, Greater Buildings Plan requires all buildings over 50,000 square feet to file an Energy Efficiency Report (EER) with the Department of Buildings once every 10 years.
This analysis also demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACES by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.
ACEEE's analysis of this legislation demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACESA by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.
A federal EERS would set a national goal for energy savings, requiring retail electricity and natural gas distributors to run programs that achieve specific reductions in energy consumption.