Energy Efficiency, Southern Style -- with Mandy Mahoney, President of SEEA (Ep.46)

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In this episode we take a regional look at energy efficiency in the Southeastern U.S. My guest is Mandy Mahoney, President of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, or SEEA.

We start off by discussing the concept of energy efficiency and what it means these days, and then dive into SEEA’s energy efficiency work in the South, including the energy equity work that SEEA is doing in high poverty and often rural communities. Mandy, a native-born Southerner, shares her perspective on some of the economic and cultural nuances that can make it challenging to advance energy efficiency and clean energy in the South, but we also explore some innovative approaches that work. We then get into some of the interesting ways in which SEEA is expanding its energy efficiency focus to include electric transportation, storm resiliency and even healthcare. We close with a preview of SEEA’s upcoming annual Conference which will be held in Atlanta this October.

Resources mentioned include:

• Collaboration: One Key to Arkansas' Success (slide deck by Arkansas PSC's Matthew Klucher
• Ouachita Electric Cooperative's HELP PAYS (Pay As You Save) Energy Efficiency Program
• Partnership for Southern Equity
• Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
• FORTIFIED Home™ standard for resilient construction
• ACEEE Rural Energy Conference
• fusion (2018 SEEA Conference)

Recorded August 22, 2018.

Published August 27, 2018.

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