Obama’s Better Building Challenge on track for 2020 goal

President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton tour upgrades of the Transwestern Building in 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

New numbers released by President Obama's Better Buildings Challenge show challenge partners have improved facility energy efficiency by more than 2.5 percent per year on average compared to their baseline years – equal to roughly $58 million in annual energy savings. The new data, released in late May, track progress toward a goal of making U.S. commercial and industrial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020.

The announcement built upon U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest

[source: http://www.sustainableindustries.com/articles/2013/06/obamas-better-building-challenge-track-2020-goal]

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