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ACEEE State EERS Database and Toolkits

State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards
States and State Governments
ACEEE maintains a database of existing state EERS’s and recommends best practices. Their toolkits include model EERS language and guides to program construction, progress reports on state experience, and summaries of existing state EERS policies.

Cash for Clunkers

Adopting Policies to Accelerate Turnover and Penetration of Efficient Appliances
Congress
Provided consumers a voucher for trading in an older and less fuel-efficient vehicle and purchasing a more efficient one.

Report, Making Smart Products and Systems Efficient

Improving DOE’s Process for Issuing EE Regs Under Current Authority
Individual Agencies
Providing an overview of current policy measures worldwide, and noting drivers for the development and implementation of low power enabling technologies and efficient network-connected products and systems.

Report, Clothes Dryer Testing

Improving DOE’s Process for Issuing EE Regs Under Current Authority
Individual Agencies
A study in the best practices of clothes dryer energy efficiency testing, focusing on improvements in DOE’s testing methodology.

Report, Next Generation Standards

Improving DOE’s Process for Issuing EE Regs Under Current Authority
Individual Agencies
Identified new categories of products which DOE could issue EE standards for under its existing authority.

ACEEE Report on Recommended EE Code Changes

Promoting EE through Federal Tax Policy
Congress
Includes ways to refine (previously existing) energy efficiency tax credits, removing tax disincentives to efficiency investments under the business tax code, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

Expired Federal EE Tax Credits

Promoting EE through Federal Tax Policy
Congress
The Sec. 25C Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit for Existing Homes, the Sec. 45L Energy Efficient Home Credit, and the Sec. 179D Commercial Building Tax Deduction.