Am running around today like the proverbial headless chicken … so must rely on tempting tidbits, such as this article from Live Power News entitled “Don’t Build Transmission Lines Near My Home Use Energy Efficient Technologies Instead.”
The author, Albert Thumann, thinks that energy efficiency adoption is a marketing problem. I disagree; I think it’s a regulatory barriers problem. Between the ability of utilities to leverage their relationships with state regulators and block a lot of the interconnection of distributed generation systems and the federal site-specific energy efficiency regulations, energy efficiency is not as economical an option as it could be if unencumbered by this regulatory baggage.