Article: Consumer Coalition Applauds Commission for Introducing Draft Plan to Increase Energy Efficiency.

Significant Growth in Energy Efficiency Efforts Could Be Seen in Early 2008

AUSTIN, Texas, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Efficiency Texas, a broad-based coalition of electricity consumers, today praised the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) for releasing a draft rulemaking proposal intended to improve and expand the energy efficiency programs managed by Texas's regulated electric utilities. The Commission will hold a March 19 stakeholder meeting on the proposal and hopes to conclude its rulemaking by August.

"Significantly increasing Texas's energy efficiency efforts is long overdue," said Mark R. Stover, Director of Efficiency Texas. "While we need ...

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