DOE Touts Deep Carbon Cuts Across National Building Sector

A building efficiency program within the Energy Department has helped stop 190 million metric tons of carbon from being sent into the air and saved $18.5 billion through efficiency improvements since the program’s kickoff in 2011, an agency official said on Monday.

Encouraged by those results, more and more organizations are joining the Better Buildings Initiative, including “everything from school districts to health care facilities to larger corporations and manufacturers,” said Jeff Marootian, principal deputy assistant secretary at DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

“They are incentivized not only by reducing their consumption, but also by saving money,” ...