Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. Rob Portman renewed their push for a national energy efficiency strategy by reintroducing an updated version of the Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Bill.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) renewed their push for a national energy efficiency strategy by reintroducing Feb. 27 an updated version of the Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Bill (S. 2704). The legislation has received widespread support from Democrats and Republicans as well as industry leaders, energy-efficiency advocates and environmental stakeholders because it reduces pollution, saves consumers money and creates jobs.
The reintroduced Shaheen-Portman legislation uses a variety of low-cost tools to help energy users become more efficient while making the country’s largest energy user — the federal government — reduce its energy use through the use of energy-efficient technology. The deficit-neutral bill incentivizes the use of efficiency technologies that are commercially available today, can be widely deployed across the country and quickly pay for themselves through energy savings.