Energy Efficiency has long been touted as the “low hanging fruit,” both in terms of energy savings and potential impact on mitigating climate change.  So why aren’t energy efficiency measures being more rapidly adopted?

I explore this question and more from the floor of Con Ed’s Energy Efficiency Summit on The Energy Collective blog.

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