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- EIN 84-1593046
- (303) 447-0078
- 2334 Broadway St Unit A Ste A Boulder CO 80304-4140 USA
- www.swenergy.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Energy Resources Conservation & Development, Environment
Mission: To promote greater energy efficiency in colorado, utah, arizona, new mexico, nevada and wyoming. The organization works on policy and program development, analysis and advocacy, evaluation of energy savings measures and efficiency potential, and documentation and analysis of ongoing energy efficiency projects and their benefits.
Programs: Sweep continued to build momentum towards more efficient energy use in the region in2017. With advocacy and support from sweep, the electric utilities in the regionhelped their customers save about 2,400 gwh per year from energy efficiency programsimplemented in 2017, equivalent to the electricity use of 230,000 typical households. The utilities estimate that their 2017 programs will provide households and businesses about $900 million in net economic benefits over the lifetime of energy efficiency measures installed that year, while also reducing co2 emissions bymillions of tons and water consumption by billions of gallons. With support from sweep, states, cities and counties continued to adopt either the 2015 or 2018 version of international energy conservation code (iecc). As of 2017, sweep estimates that over 50 percent of new housing permits in the region were issued in jurisdictions that have adopted a state-of-the-art building energy code. Sweep also helped to advance policies that are facilitating the deployment of electric vehicles. In 2017, arizona, colorado, nevada and utah ranked in the top ten states nationwide with respect to growth in ev sales.