The State Energy Program (SEP) provides grants to states and directs funding to state energy offices from technology programs in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. States use grants to address their energy priorities and program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

States often combine many sources of funding for their projects, including DOE and private industry. The State Energy Program plays a role when:

• the state energy office is involved in the project,
• the State Energy Program provides funding, or
• the state uses petroleum violation escrow funds for part of the project and it is in the state's SEP plan.

Conservation Update

Your connection to energy projects in the states.

The State Energy Program publishes this bimonthly newsletter outlining projects by state energy offices, summarizing news from the states, and listing new state publications. More

A Look behind the Texas Renewable Portfolio Standard 

The Texas Renewable Portfolio Standard is widely regarded as the most effective state-level policy to promote the adoption of renewable energy technologies to date. Among other things, it has vaulted Texas into first place for wind power generation in the United States. But what are the conditions in Texas that made this policy so successful? What might other states learn from this experience? More