§15832 Energy Efficiency Public Information Initiative

Summary

The Secretary must run a national program with ads and media campaigns to tell people to cut energy use during the four-year period starting August 8, 2005. The program must explain why saving electricity, natural gas, and petroleum matters (especially during peak times), how low energy costs help the economy and manufacturing jobs, and give practical, low-cost steps people can take — like fixing and maintaining heating and cooling systems and ducts, weatherizing homes and buildings, buying energy‑efficient products, and proper tire care. The program must work with state and local governments and the private sector and use successful local education efforts when possible. The Secretary must send Congress a report on the program’s effectiveness by July 1, 2009. The program ends December 31, 2010, and up to $90,000,000 is authorized for each fiscal year 2006 through 2010.