American Efficient partners with electric utilities to develop and operate portfolios of distributed energy resources, especially distributed demand response and energy efficiency.
There are numerous efficient products that can be installed in a home or business that use less energy than the technology they replace. An increasing percentage are also “connected,” giving these devices and their owners the ability to react to real-time demand for energy. Below are some indicative technologies. Most of these product installations have a value to grid operators- meaning they are eligible for American Efficient incentive programs.
Residences, while not the predominant building type in the US by total square footage, contain many, fairly easy-to-implement opportunities to add value to the grid through efficiency and demand response.
Insulation, weather-stripping and efficient glazing all contribute to reducing heating/cooling load.
second only to heating and cooling as a source of load in the typical home
Those with the most advanced potential for reducing energy consumption, “plug load”
Significant impacts can be gained from replacing incandescent lighting with high efficiency lamps and fixtures utilizing CFLs, LEDs etc.
Energy storage systems (ESS) can not only provide standby power in a utility outage but can also enable homeowners to choose when to use the grid or their own “assets”
These devices “learn” from your energy usage patterns and help you optimize both comfort and cost of heating and cooling
Any means of producing energy for the home “behind the meter”; used to supplement and/or replace grid power
At least half of the energy consumed in the average American house
Commercial building energy consumption by source varies much more than in residential buildings, based on geography, size and use.
Next to lighting, the quickest return on investment in commercial buildings.
Significant impacts can be gained from not only replacing older fluorescent ballasts with high efficiency LED fixtures but also by utilizing occupancy and ambient light sensors as well as de-lamping and providing task lighting.
Many more options exist for business to utilize both on and offsite renewables to decrease the price paid for total energy consumption, including hosting third-party-owned rooftop solar.
The primary source of load in commercial buildings, includes ventilation, dehumidification and often re-heat of chilled air.
Not only contribute plug load but also cooling load.
Our programs are designed to mirror midstream utility programs for ease of use, however we are differentiated in our ability to work in more states, with more products, and with less hassle than other incentive programs. Through a single program agreement, American Efficient works with partners to incentivize thousands of products sold in hundreds of stores across the country.
American Efficient works with America's leading manufacturers, retailers, and distributors of energy efficient products. By deploying incentives through partners, we can impact efficient product sales for consumers, with the end result of more savings for all.
"Since 1990, energy efficiency has become the third-largest electricity resource in the United States; without it, we would need the equivalent of 313 additional large power plants to meet the country’s energy needs. If savings from appliance standards, utility programs, and building codes reached their full potential, efficiency would become our nation’s largest electricity resource by 2030"
With technologies we have today, we could profitably reduce overall energy consumption by more than 10% overall and peak demand by more than 20% overall.
US and Canadian programs report gross savings of nearly 29,590 GWh of electricity and nearly 496 million therms of gas in 2015, resulting in an aggregate 23.4 million metric tons of avoided CO2 emissions. US and Canadian administrators reported that demand response programs reduced capacity by 34,950 MW, with programs in the west (47 percent) and south (41 percent) accounting for the majority.
American Efficient is passionate about using our expertise in bringing distributed energy innovations to market to serve consumers and the public.
