• Energy efficiency standards reduce our demand for energy, thereby limiting our demand for dirty fossil fuels.
• These standards also help increase our energy security by reducing our demand for foreign energy sources.

Efficiency standards save consumers money.

• By requiring less energy to function, energy-efficient appliances save consumers money on their electricity bills.
• Efficiency improvements also limit energy demand in general, thereby reducing the need for new power plants which typically drive up energy prices.

Efficiency standards protect our environment and help fight climate change.

• By reducing our demand for dirty energy, efficiency standards keep millions of tons of pollutants out of our air each year.
• Efficiency standards have and will continue to bring about substantial reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide – the chief catalyst for climate change – emitted into the air each year.

Efficiency standards protect the public health.

Efficiency standards are directly responsible for reductions in power plant emissions of such harmful pollutants as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and mercury – pollutants which are contributors to smog, acid rain, respiratory problems, and countless other human and environmental health hazards.

Efficiency standards help create American jobs.

• There are numerous examples of American companies who have increased their workforce as a direct result of efficiency standards. In order to ramp up production on energy-efficient models, these companies have invested in modernization and increased their workforce to bring these products to market in a timely manner.
• In addition, the money that consumers and businesses save on their energy bills is inevitably re-invested in the state economy. Investment leads to new jobs. New jobs mean a healthier state economy.