Alliance to Save Energy
Paula Glover is President of the Alliance to Save Energy. Helen Burt is National Commission on Energy Efficiency Policy Chair and Chief Customer Officer at National Grid US.
The Alliance to Save Energy on October 5th announced its Energy 2040, an initiative to reduce emissions while advancing equity, reliability, and affordability outcomes. Supporters gathered at the Edison Electric Institute in Washington, D.C., to witness the launch, including the unveiling of the Energy 2040 logo. Speaking at the event were Paula Glover, Alliance to Save Energy President and Helen Burt, National Commission on Energy Efficiency Policy Chair and Chief Customer Officer at National Grid US. More information on Energy 2040 is coming at the beginning of 2023. Enjoy these excerpts.
President, Alliance to Save Energy, Paula Glover: What is the role that efficiency can play in this transition that we're seeing in 2040? It is a new ERA. We're talking about equity, reliability, and affordability.
We picked those three pillars because quite frankly, they are the hardest questions to answer. How are we going to do this equitably? How are we going to ensure we have reliability and resilience and how are we going to keep it affordable?
At the same time, we're doing all of that, we have to decarbonize and reduce greenhouse emissions. We are now in the middle of a war that we had not thought was going to happen when we came up with these great ideas. We are looking at a worldwide recession. So, there're lots of other things happening.