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Marilyn A. Brown, PhD, is endowed professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she created and directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab.Yu Wang is assistant professor of global energy policy in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University.

• Figures, Tables, and BoxSeries ForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction1.1 The Multiple Motivations for Energy Efficiency1.2 The Value of Cross-Disciplinarity1.3 The Energy-Efficiency Gap1.4 The Focus on Electricity Consumption by "End-Users"1.5 The Value of Polycentric Systems of Policies1.6 International Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities1.7 Questions and Challenges Addressed by This Book1.8 Organization of This BookChapter 2 Energy-Efficient Technologies and Practices: Today's Portfolio and Tomorrow's Promise2.1 How Energy and Electricity Are Currently Used2.2 Technologies and Practices for Energy-Efficient Buildings2.3 Technologies and Practices for Energy-Efficient Industry2.4 Matching Load to Generation2.5 Estimating the Levelized Cost of Electricity Generation and Savings2.6 Energy Efficiency and Carbon Mitigation Supply Curves2.7 ConclusionsChapter 3 Obstacles to Energy Efficiency and the Logic of Policy Design3.1 Market Failures and Public Interest Rationales for Public Policy3.2 Market Failures and Barriers3.2.1 Financial Barriers3.2.2 Regulatory Barriers3.2.3 Information Barriers and Behavioral "Wrinkles"3.2.4 Lock-In of Energy Waste3.3 Non-Energy Benefits, Costs, and Drivers3.4 The Logic of Energy-Efficiency Policy Design3.5 ConclusionsChapter 4 Energy-Efficiency Policies and Programs in a Maturing Marketplace4.1 A Taxonomy of Policy Instruments4.2 Policy Levers for Energy-Efficient Buildings4.2.1 Financing Policies4.2.2 Regulatory Policies4.2.3 Information Policies4.3 Policy Levers for Energy-Efficient Industry4.3.1 Financing Policies4.3.2 Regulatory Policies4.3.3 Information Policies4.4 Integrating Policy Concepts4.4.1 Economy-Wide Policy Instruments4.4.2 Multiple Measures and Policies4.4.3 Multiple Scales of Governance4.4.4 Polycentric Governance4.5 ConclusionsChapter 5 Program Evaluation and the Need for New Business Models5.1 Isolating the Efficiency Effect in Energy Intensity Metrics5.2 Evaluating Energy-Efficiency Programs and Policies5.3 Measurement and Verification of Impacts5.4 Controlling for Rival Explanations5.4.1 Free Ridership5.4.2 Spillovers5.4.3 Rebound5.5 Trade-offs and Alternative Views of Success5.6 Integrating Energy Efficiency into the Utility Business Model5.6.1 Integrated Resource Planning5.6.2 The Virtual Power Plant5.6.3 Alternative Utility Models for Promoting Energy Efficiency5.6.4 Third-Party Entities for Delivering Ratepayer-Funded Energy Efficiency5.7 ConclusionsChapter 6 Follow the Footprints: Leading and Lagging States6.1 Federal Effort toward Energy Efficiency6.1.1 Overview of National Legislation6.1.2 Multiple Scale U.S. Governance of Energy Efficiency6.2 State Performance on Energy Efficiency: A Statistical Analysis6.2.1 Conceptual Framework for the Energy-Efficiency Performance of States6.2.2 State Policies and Characteristics6.2.3 Policy Impacts on State Energy-Efficiency Performance6.3 Lessons from Leading and Improving States6.3.1 Massachusetts6.3.2 California6.3.3 Wisconsin6.3.4 Arkansas6.4 Room for Improvement6.5 ConclusionsChapter 7 Potential for the Future7.1 Technical, Economic, and Achievable Potential7.2 Estimating the Potential with Energy Modeling7.3 Policy Supply Curve for Energy Efficiency7.4 Policy Supply Curve for Carbon Abatement7.5 Comparison of Global Policy Practices7.5.1 Germany7.5.2 China7.5.3 Japan7.5.4 United Kingdom7.6 ConclusionsChapter 8 Policies and Markets: Moving Forward in Unison8.1 The Skeptics and the Advocates8.2 Policy Recommendations8.2.1 Keeping Up with Technology Assets8.2.2 Following the Leaders8.2.3 Employing Polycentric Policy Systems8.2.4 Closing the Energy-Efficiency Gap8.3 Looking to the FutureAppendix: Correlation Table: All VariablesNotesReferencesIndex