Efforts to make the southern U.S. more energy efficient by 2020 could help create 380,000 new jobs, save 8.6 billion gallons of water, and help consumers reduce their energy bills by $41 billion.
That’s the conclusion of a recent study that also shows investing $200 billion in energy efficiency programs by 2030 could return $448 billion in savings.
Researchers from the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled how implementation of nine policies across the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors might play out over 20 years in the District of Columbia and 16 southern states.
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