Clean Energy Solutions

Improvements in energy efficiency are the most economical way to provide for our future power needs. We have the technical potential to reduce electricity demand by 33% by 2020 in a cost-effective manner (1). Such action could, by itself, erase the demand for new coal-fired power plants.

Commercial and residential buildings account for more than 65% of U.S. electricity use (2). The design and construction of buildings will play a huge role in determining our future energy use. The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Institute of Architects have called for the “immediate energy reduction of all new and renovated buildings to one-half the national average for that building type, with increased reductions of ten percent every five years so that all buildings designed by the year 2030 will be carbon neutral – meaning that they will use no fossil fuel energy.” (3)

1)       American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. http://www.aceee.org/energy/eeassess.htm
2)       Pew Center on Global Climate Change. http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/10%2D50%5FLoftness%2Epdf
3)       The American Institute of Architects. http://www.aia.org/release_060806_mayors_2030

Community Energy Solutions