| Alliance to Save Energy | |
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| Formation | February 10, 1977 |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC, USA |
| Honorary Chair | Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) |
| Co-Chair | Peter Darbee, President and CEO, Pacific Gas and Electric Company |
| President | Kateri Callahan |
| Key people | Charles H. Percy (founding chair), Hubert Humphrey (co-founder) |
| Website | www.ase.org |
The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition consisting largely of industrial, technological, and energy corporations. The Alliance states that its mission is to "support energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and advocate energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to society and individual consumers, and that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate." [1] The alliance's chief activities include public relations, research, and lobbying[2] to change U.S. energy policy.
The creation of the Alliance was announced on the 10 February 1977 with the support of the then U.S. President Jimmy Carter.[3] It was the initiative of senators Charles Percy and Hubert Humphrey.
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The alliance includes over 170 organizations committed to energy efficiency as a primary way to achieve the nation's environmental, economic, energy security and affordable housing goals.
In 2007, Alliance to Save Energy came out in support of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007[4][5][6], which phases out the use of inefficient forms of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient lights, such as CFL, halogen incandescents, and LED lights. The purchase price of more efficient lights is typically higher than the purchase price of legacy incandescents. However, the low energy consumption and long life span of high-efficiency lights result in lower life-cycle costs than their legacy incandescent counterparts. Several of the founding member corporations (including Philips, Panasonic, and Sylvania) are manufacturers of high-efficiency bulbs. However, all of these corporations are also manufacturers of the incandescent light bulbs that will be phased out of production following passage of the Clean Energy Bill of 2007.
The board includes CEOs, presidents and senior executives of companies, associations, consumer and environmental organizations, as well as officials from state government, universities and law firms.
The first high-profile board of directors and board of advisors were chaired by Senator Percy and the Honorable Henry A. Kissinger, respectively. Honorary chairmen include Senators Daniel J. Evans, the late H. John Heinz III and Timothy E. Wirth.
The current board is chaired by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and co-chaired by Peter Darbee, Chairman, President and CEO of PG&E Corporation. Congressional vice-chairs include Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Richard Lugar (R–IN), Lisa Murkowski (R–AK), Mark Pryor (D-AR.), Mark Udall (D–CO), Mark Warner (D–VA). Congressional vice chairs also include Representatives Michael Burgess (R–TX), Ralph Hall (R– TX), Steve Israel (D–NY), Edward J. Markey (D–MA), and Paul Tonko (D–NY). Alliance President Kateri Callahan took office on January 1, 2004.