North American Energy Efficiency Coalition
The Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) have developed the North American Energy Efficiency Coalition to coalesce private and public sector efforts toward achieving the global goal to double the rate of annual energy efficiency improvements by 2030.
The North American Energy Efficiency Coalition outlines the present opportunity and initial areas of work for a North American coalition, with a specific focus on tangible outcomes and deliverables within the near-term timeline, with the potential to expand or support a global coalition.
This coalition will advocate for energy efficiency as a solution to three pressing challenges:
- Rapidly increasing energy demand.
- Rising global temperatures and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
- The urgent need for countries to raise ambition in their 2035 Paris Agreement pledges and achieve significant emissions reductions in the near-term.
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Why Now?
The Opportunity is present for Industry to Lead And work with other countries and sub-national actors to realize the energy transition goals articulated in the COP 28
outcomes, known as the UAE Consensus.
The twin challenges of rising demand and climate change. Energy demand is projected to rise in North America and across the globe. In the U.S., one estimate is that electricity demand will grow 35-50% by 2040, due to the onshoring of manufacturing, development of data centers, and electrification. The International Energy Agency projects global electricity demand to grow at around 4% annually through 2027, an unprecedented rate of growth, for similar reasons. This surging energy demand threatens the reliability of the grids and energy infrastructure that is needed to power the global marketplace.
Every year, our inefficient energy system costs the world $4.5 trillion in wasted energy. Energy efficiency is essential to reduce this waste, as well as emissions, and meet rising demand as it strengthens energy stability, reliability, and resilience in our local communities and countries. Energy efficiency voices play a critical role in ensuring an accessible and resilient energy transition. A significant increase in investment and deployment of energy efficiency technologies and systems is necessary to meet this rising demand for electricity and the collective goals of the Paris Agreement
The outcome includes the agreement of countries to work toward doubling of global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements and tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030. This agreement creates an opportunity for public-private partnership to realize these goals.