The Rocky Mountain Institute has issued a new report entitled Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and the U.S. Efficiency Opportunity (pdf). The report analyzes the size of electricity productivity gap between the states. Electric productivity is the ratio of gross domestic product to electricity consumption. The highest performing states include New York, California, and Connecticut. RMI claims that if the lowest performing states like Kentucky and Mississippi closed this gap, "30 percent of current electrical consumption could be curtailed nationwide."
This report shows that this gap is the most significant near term method to improving our nation's energy efficiency. The next step, according to RMI, is to determine how to achieve this with the greatest cost effectiveness.
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