Washington State Leads Way With Efficiency First !

Washington State Leads way with Efficiency First !

Washington will become the first state to legislatively adopt the Architecture 2030 Challenge for making our buildings as energy efficient as possible.

More than 30 percent of energy used in Washington State goes to power houses, office towers, stores and other indoor spaces, yet buildings are one of the state’s biggest energy wasters.

In addition to promoting super efficient buildings, Efficiency First provides a means of rating energy use and disclosing energy use scores to commercial building buyers and tenants.

The bill will avoid about 30 million tons of global warming pollution between now and 2020. That’s equivalent to taking about 5 million cars of the road for one year.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy says improving buildings’ energy efficiency 20 percent by 2030 could create an estimated 800,000 net jobs nationwide.

A kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned. Energy efficiency typically cost about 3 cents per kWh saved compared with 7-12 cents per kWh for electricity from a new power plant.

A 10-percent improvement in U.S. buildings’ energy efficiency would save Americans $20 billion a year and would be equal to taking 30 million vehicles off the nation’s roads.

Joe Yosso  “the windowguy”

www.northwestenergysavers.com