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Energy & Advocacy News >>What Happens When We Start Using Less? A Few Challenges Facing Utilities
Source: ase.org / Rodney Sobin
In the United States, electric utility companies are primarily responsible for the generation and distribution of electricity. Electric utilities have traditionally depended on large, centralized power plants, usually burning fossil fuel, to produce electricity. Under the traditional utility business model utilities depend on increasing energy sales to earn a profit. However, the traditional utility model is facing challenges. In much of the United States, electricity sales have stagnated and even decreased, even as electrical devices have proliferated in our homes, schools and work places. Nationally, electric retail sales increased an average of over 2% from 1982 to 2007, but since then sales have stagnated with a slight average annual decrease of 0.2%. Read more here.
>>Updates from the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy The September 2014 issue of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Update newsletter is now available. Read this issue to learn about:
>An overview of Building America Top Innovations, presented in a new, user-friendly website format
>Open registration for the 2015 Race to Zero Student Design Competition
>The September 24 webinar, Multifamily Ventilation Strategies and Compartmentalization Requirements
>2014 Housing Innovation Awards and Building America sessions at the EEBA Conference—September 23-25, 2014
>Residential success stories that employ Building America Top Innovations
>DOE Zero Energy Ready Home technical trainings
>The latest publications from Building America: measure guidelines, case studies for new and existing homes and technologies, and more!
Read the full September issue for the latest news and information from Building America. Learn more about the Building America program.
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