Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: Policy Brief

Meeting national and state decarbonization goals requires a transition to clean energy technologies. Energy efficiency, demand flexibility, renewable energy and storage can reduce consumers’ electricity bills, lower total electricity system costs, and provide health and resilience benefits. Berkeley Lab developed a series of briefs that explore these consumer benefits of a clean energy transition:

1. Contribute to a least-cost electricity system by using low-cost resources such as end-use efficiency demand flexibility, and renewable energy
2. Improved outdoor air quality from consumers shifting their home energy consumption from direct combustion of natural gas to efficient electric appliances, taking into account increased electricity generation due to demand growth.
3. Improved resilience of homes to grid outages due to installation of BTM solar PV coupled with storage. 

This brief provides an overview of the efficiency, renewable energy, health and resilience benefits and summarizes actions for states that want to take advantage of the consumer benefits of the clean energy transition.