Energy Efficiency Savings & Opportunities – Paula Glover, CEO of the Alliance To Save Energy
Release Date: 09/10/2024
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info_outline“Energy efficiency…is doing more, using less. The megawatt not used is the cheapest megawatt and there's so many things, either by using technology, old technology like insulation or digitalization, that allows us to really stretch what we can get out every single megawatt ,a kilowatt electron that we use. And so that's what we're talking about. If we had the kind of massive adoption that we need, we could get to a big 40% reduction.” Paula Glover on Electric Ladies Podcast
The International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Star Program say that energy efficiency should be the foundation of reducing our carbon emissions to address global warming. The Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment Act provide billions of dollars in incentives and funding opportunities to help us make our homes, businesses, and infrastructure more energy efficient. But what are those incentives? How do we tap them? How much money and emissions will energy efficiency really save us?
Listen to Paula Glover, CEO of the Alliance To Save Energy, explain the opportunities and how to tap them in this fascinating discussion with Electric Ladies host Joan Michelson. She also shares insightful career advice.
You’ll hear about:
- What the Alliance To Save Energy is and who its members are, the impact they have.
- What energy efficiency really is – and is not.
- How you can identify and tap the savings to increase the energy efficiency of your home, business, school or community.
- What the Roadmap for a Just Energy Transition is and how it works.
- Plus, insightful career advice, such as…
“One would be, relationships matter, and you should be feeding into them as much as you want to get out of it. So, it's not about who….Number two, which is that as much as you're looking for a mentor, you should also be a mentor. And that mentorship is not just, I'm at 15 years and so I mentor someone who's at five. But if you really nurture relationship, you could be at 15 years mentoring someone who's at 25 years, right? You have something to contribute….There is so much that we have to contribute at every stage of our career. I think taking the opportunity to do that leads to other opportunities that you may never have known about.” Paula Glover on Electric Ladies Podcast
Read Joan’s Forbes articles here.
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