34% drop in US electric demand possible
Sat Feb 14 2009 5:45 pm
by Bob Morris.
How? Through energy efficiency improvements, says the Rocky Mountain Institute.
If the 40 worst-performing states got their collective act together and performed as well as the 10 most-efficient states in terms of electricity usage then a total of 1.2 million gigawatt-hours could be saved annually. That’s equivalent to 62% of the US’s coal-fired electric power.
Posted in: Energy conservation.
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