On April 30, 2015, President Obama signed S. 535, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015, which specifies various Federal actions to increase energy and water efficiency in commercial buildings and adjusts a Department of Energy efficiency standard for grid-enabled residential water heaters.
Of particular interest are two provisions that:
* promote commercial building energy-use benchmarking and disclosure
* create a voluntary Tenant Star program to promote rental property energy efficiency
These are modest measures with modest impacts on energy use, but it’s nice to know Congress can get together on something, particularly something as important as energy efficiency, an area a majority of Americans agree is important.
President Obama signs the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015. Image courtesy of the Alliance to Save Energy
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