Workshop Session II: Tuesday, May 4, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Concentration: Efficiency and Renewables
Ballroom West

Energy efficiency is the indispensable climate solution. The cheapest, cleanest, and fastest emission reductions will come from the energy we never have to use at all. Cutting energy use also saves money on homeowners’ electricity bills and reduces costs for business. Over the past year, energy efficiency has emerged centrally on the national policy stage as a tool for economic recovery as well as climate protection. Today bills are being debated in Congress to drive a new energy retrofit industry, including: Home STAR, Building STAR, Energy Efficiency Resource Standards, Federal Building Codes, and policies for Industrial Efficiency and Manufactured Housing. This discussion will begin with recognition that the Recovery Act made unprecedented investments in government energy efficiency programs, and will take a closer look at identifying the next steps that will be needed to build a national market for energy efficiency and take this work to scale across the whole economy.

Moderator:
Bracken Hendricks, Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow

Presenters:
Nancy Sutley, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Chair
Reid Detchon, Energy Future Coalition, Executive Director
Chris Chafe, Clean Economy Development Center, Executive Director
Mark Norberg, Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, Assistant to the President
Jeremy Hayes, Green For All, Director of Special Projects