The Second Generation of Strategic Energy Management Programs

As an energy efficiency program design, SEM is still new—the earliest adopters in the northwest US and Canada launched pilots in 2009. When the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) first surveyed its members in 2011, only seven program administrators reported SEM offerings. Since then, the number of SEM programs and implementations has increased steadily. In 2014 CEE counted twenty-one program administrators with SEM offerings for industrial end users, and more than 420 industrial facilities that have participated in SEM programs.