$18.5 Billion In Energy Savings From Better Climate Challenge
DOE Announces $18.5 Billion In Energy Savings and Celebrates First Year Results of Better Climate Challenge
Better Buildings Initiative
Building Decarbonization Movement Leads Stealth Attack On Fossil Fuels
Knowledge is power: New building decarbonization technologies are mainstreaming, with an assist from new financial instruments.
Better Buildings Initiative Is Decarbonizing America’s Built Environment
Making buildings more efficient is not only good for the environment, it saves money too.
Lighting Experts Encourage Innovative Use of Advanced Lighting
The Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Initiative introduced the Integrated Lighting Campaign (ILC) in 2020 to encourage facility owners, operators, and managers to save energy and reinvest those savings in their facilities. This initiative offers resources and support to participants. It also highlights how participants are integrating lighting with other building systems to achieve energy … [continued]
Studies In Chattanooga & Roanoke Could Help Slash Energy Usage In Homes & Buildings
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings can slash utility costs. New studies in Chattanooga and Roanoke show how.
White House Finally Gets Its Solar Panels… Again (VIDEO)
The White House video above doesn’t note that President Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House decades ago that were later removed by the Reagan administration, but I guess they didn’t want to get too political with that. It is nice that the Obama administration finally got solar … [continued]
Switchgrass Biofuel Potentially Cheaper Than Oil for Heating Homes
To be filed in the category of everything old is new again: a new study from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) suggests that millions of homes and businesses in the U.S. would save money by burning biomass in their basement furnaces instead of oil, in form of switchgrass biofuel … [continued]
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Invisible Solar Cells That Look Like Glass
If researchers could develop a low cost, invisible solar cell to sub in for ordinary window glass, the result would be a sustainability twofer of epic proportions. Windows are notorious as a weak spot for energy efficiency, even in newer buildings. That goes double for millions of older buildings in … [continued]
Sprint, Macy’s, & Johnson Controls Join DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge
This article below has been republished from the U.S. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) website (image & link added): The Energy Department on February 21 announced that Johnson Controls, Macy’s, and Sprint are joining the Better Buildings Challenge. Launched by President Obama in 2011, the Better Buildings Challenge brings together corporations, … [continued]
Biggest Solar Power Company in U.S. Could More than Double in Size
With control over 320 megawatts of solar power generating capacity, Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources already calls itself the biggest solar power company in the U.S. (at least for now), and it is about to add a whopping 750 more megawatts in one fell swoop if the Environmental Impact Statement … [continued]
