SEE Action Publications Library
The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action) provides resources for the design and implementation of policies and programs that can drive investment in energy efficiency, create jobs, and reduce consumer costs. These policies and programs can also strengthen the economic competitiveness of state and local entities by lowering the cost of living and doing business.
Learn more about SEE Action activities related to the following policies and programs.
| Title | Date |
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 Greater Energy Savings through Building Energy Performance Policy: Four Leading Policy and Program Options lays out recommendations for linking existing policies and developing new policies, such that their success is based on the real energy savings achieved in buildings. This approach has the potential to affect the entire building lifecycle. |
May 2014 |
 This publication presents examples of the value that insights from behavior analytics of these data can provide (as well as pointing out its limitations). |
June 2014 |
 This report takes a foundational step toward the establishment of common data collection practices for energy efficiency lending. The authors reviewed existing practices for data collection for energy efficiency financing programs and, based on discussions with various stakeholders, identified high-priority needs, characterized potential uses for finance program data, and identified use cases that describe how stakeholders use data for key objectives and actions. |
July 2014 |
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| November 2014 | |
 The report, the second in a series of reports on smart meters, presents concrete examples of findings from behavior analytics research using data that are immediately useful and relevant, including proof-of-concept analytics techniques that can be adapted and used by others, novel discoveries that answer important policy questions, and guidelines and protocols that summarize best practices for analytics and evaluation. |
December 2014 |
 Efficient access to capital from secondary markets—reselling energy loans to investors to replenish program funds—is being advanced as an important enabler of the energy efficiency industry “at scale.” However, the role that secondary markets can play in bringing energy efficiency to scale is largely untested. Only a handful of secondary market transactions of energy efficiency loan products have been executed to date, and it is too soon to draw robust conclusions from these deals. At the same time, energy efficiency program administrators and policymakers face near-term decisions on whether and how to access secondary markets as part of their energy efficiency deployment strategy. |
February 2015 |
 This report, the third in a series of reports on smart meters, presents smart meter data to analyze the ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings in Home Energy Reports (HERs)—one type of a behavior-based energy efficiency program. |
April 2015 |
 Energy efficiency collaboratives vary greatly and are typically designed for a specific jurisdiction, making them hard to compare side by side. This guide seeks to highlight a few common elements and draw conclusions on the overall effectiveness of specific characteristics of collaboratives. |
September 2015 |
 This Guide is designed to help state and local policymakers to take full advantage of new policy developments by providing them with a comprehensive set of tools to support launching or accelerating residential energy efficiency programs. |
October 2015 |