All New York City Municipal Buildings Benchmarked for Energy Efficiency

[Nathanael]

New York City is making big moves to cut its emissions. Here is the one of the first stages.


Recently New York City’s Bloomberg administration announced the completion of a benchmarking project for the city’s municipal buildings that will insure every city-owned structure in excess of 10,000 square feet meets very strict energy efficiency requirements.

The project, initiated on December 9, 2009 with the passage of the “Greener, Greater Buildings Plan” (formally known as Intro. No. 476-A, Benchmarking Energy and Water Use), puts the city at the head of a national effort to improve building energy efficiency aimed at reducing America’ carbon footprint and its use of highly pollutive fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/all-new-york-city-municipal-buildings-benchmarked-energy-efficiency