CNT Energy Impresses at ACEEE

Last week Marjie Isaacson of CNT Energy had the privilege of attending the premier energy-efficiency event in the country, the bi-annual conference of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE www.aceee.org). This meeting, known as “energy camp,” is five days jam-packed from the morning until late at night with the latest in both research and actual practice on how to reduce the amount of energy that is used. These are, as stated by the organizers, “lofty goals related to costs, comfort, and stewardship”. Not coincidentally, these are the goals we’re pursuing with Power Smart Pricing!

The conference is organized in eleven panels, called concentrations on a specific topic. These subjects ranged from analyses of energy use in residential and commercial buildings, to the social dimensions of energy use, to planning for the future. Sessions consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers. CNT Energy staff had two papers accepted for publication, one describing our energy auditing work, and the other discussing real-time pricing in Illinois. There was considerable interest in the relatively new and unusual concept of RTP for residential consumers, and of course Marjie was happy to be able to provide a good report on how successful PSP participants have been on the program.