Efficiency First — About Efficiency First

Reduc­ing demand is the first part of a cohen­ert energy pol­icy — or plan for most home own­ers. By reduc­ing the demand for elec­tric­ity, alter­na­tive energy sys­tems can be smaller to meet your house­hold needs. Sav­ings from energy effi­ciency long after pay­ments for the upgrades have been completed.

The fol­low­ing is the mis­sion state­ment from the effi­ciency first web site:

Res­i­den­tial effi­ciency improve­ments can reduce energy waste in most homes by 20 to 40 per­cent. A nation­wide ini­tia­tive to improve the effi­ciency of America’s 128 mil­lion homes has the poten­tial to unlock sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tions in building-related green­house gas emis­sions, improve national secu­rity by reduc­ing our depen­dence on for­eign oil, and gen­er­ate long-term energy sav­ings for Amer­i­can consumers.

Expan­sion of the Home Per­for­mance indus­try also rep­re­sents a cru­cial path to eco­nomic growth in the face of his­tor­i­cally high unem­ploy­ment and unprece­dented weak­ness in the con­struc­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tors. Con­sumer demand for effi­ciency retro­fits will cre­ate hun­dreds of thou­sands of high-paying local jobs that can­not be out­sourced over­seas, while stim­u­lat­ing a surge of man­u­fac­tur­ing of build­ing mate­ri­als pri­mar­ily made by Amer­i­can workers.

via Effi­ciency First — About Effi­ciency First.