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SEEA:
PARTICIPATION
What are the benefits of participating in SEEA and promoting energy efficiency?
Improve bottom line
Increasing energy efficiency reduces waste and lowers costs, greenhouse gases, and other emissions. Energy-efficiency initiatives can help improve productivity.
Support Economic development
A region committed to energy efficiency helps businesses be more competitive and fosters a favorable climate for attracting new businesses and jobs to the region.
Make it voluntary
Voluntary energy-efficiency programs designed by regional alliances, rather than by government, are market-driven and benefit not only consumers, but the participating stakeholders as well.
Improve air quality
Air quality in the Southeast is a regional issue that needs regional solutions. SEEA’s regional strategy will design programs that meet regulators’ requirements in a more cost-effective manner than is possible under state-by-state plans.
Develop Partnerships
A collaborative approach will produce energy- efficiency initiatives and programs that all SEEA stakeholders can agree on.
How to work with SEEA?
Businesses
Industrial, commercial, and retail businesses keep up-to-date at SEEA on cost-effective methods for improving energy utilization and the bottom line. Manufacturers can help educate the public about energy-efficient products and practices.
Consumers
Educational programs demystify energy efficiency for consumers, who will find it possible to cut costs while maintaining - or even increasing - comfort.
Utilities
Utilities can work through SEEA to design and operate energy-efficiency programs in the most cost-effective ways. Some utilities may prefer SEEA to administer their energy-efficiency programs, allowing the utilities to focus on their core business.
Governments and Communities
Working together throughout the region, federal, state, and local governments can benchmark best practices, improve efficiency standards, and deliver programs at a lower cost through coordinated efforts.
Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofits can meet their goals, through SEEA, with improved access to policy makers and practitioners of energy efficiency.