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Arizona households and businesses can cut electricity use by 21 percent and save $7.3 billion by 2020 if utilities ramp up energy-efficiency incentives, a public policy group said Tuesday.
“The report found that every dollar invested in energy efficiency returns more than $2 in savings on business and household utility bills.”
“The 270-page report calls for $5.5 billion in investments in efficiency programs by Arizona utilities, money that Geller said the companies would have to spend anyway on things like new power plants to keep up with demand.”
“Geller’s study said the energy saved would allow Arizona to avoid building or close 10 large power plants…”
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Amazing that we are not doing a better job with simple conservation techniques.
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The stock of existing buildings in our cities and the aging infrastructure that supports energy distribution all require major overhauls. There is a lot of discussion about building new structures to meet higher standards, but they are a drop in the bucket to what is already standing and operating using out-dated and inefficient technologies.
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