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Energy Efficiency Program Administrators and Building Energy Codes

This brief documents how energy efficiency program administrators have used technical, institutional, financial, and other resources to help advance building energy codes at the federal, state, and local levels, and describes the issues involved in fostering an expanded administrator role for the future. This brief is provided as part of a comprehensive suite of tools and resources to assist organizations in meeting the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency goal to achieve all cost-effecti… more

Date: September 2009

Creator: National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (U.S.)

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Building Energy Efficiency

This report focuses on energy use in buildings, which account for over one-third of all energy used in the United States. Significant energy savings in buildings are possible through the use of commercially available, cost-effective, energy efficient technologies; yet adoption rates for these technologies are often low. Interviews with industry, property managers, homeowners, and others were used to explore why technology adoption rates are so low. Past Federal efforts to encourage energy effic… more

Date: May 1992

Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.