What is the American Physical Society (APS) and why should policy makers or the public care about the findings of this report on energy efficiency?
The APS represents more than 46,000 U.S. physicists in academia and industry and includes nearly 60 Nobel Prize Laureates. APS has long been active in the area of energy policy and released a seminal study in 1975 that helped set the research agenda for energy for many years. Energy efficiency is an area that inherently raises many technical questions about the potential for energy savings and how to achieve them. Therefore, energy efficiency was a logical focus for APS. This study, though, was written by experts from a variety of fields.
