{"id":1115,"date":"2011-06-13T19:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:09:57","slug":"new-report-commercial-building-energy-efficiency-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2011\/06\/13\/new-report-commercial-building-energy-efficiency-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report: Commercial Building Energy Efficiency = Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1118\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2011\/06\/Architecture-20302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1118\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2011\/06\/Architecture-20302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Architecture 2030<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blog Post By: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=31066\">Jackie Roberts<\/a>, EDF&#8217;s\u00a0Director of Sustainable Technologies, National Climate Campaign<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/02\/03\/president-obama-s-plan-win-future-making-american-businesses-more-energy\">Better Buildings Initiative<\/a> proposes to make American businesses more energy efficient through a series of new initiatives including newly designed tax incentives for building efficiency, better financing opportunities for commercial retrofits, a \u201cRace to Green\u201d for state and municipal governments that streamline regulations and attract private investment for retrofit projects, a \u201cBetter Buildings Challenge\u201d to CEOs and University Presidents, and, finally, new training for commercial building technology workers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgbc.org\/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9531\">An analysis released today<\/a>, conducted by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, showed that more than 114,000 new jobs, many of which would come from the hard-hit construction industry, would be created through the Better Buildings Initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Insights into which firms will benefit, and where those jobs may be located, can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cggc.duke.edu\/environment\/climatesolutions\/\">Duke University\u2019s value chain analyses<\/a> of three energy efficiency strategies for buildings: \u00a0high efficiency windows and glass, smart grid, and LED lighting.\u00a0 If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efficiencyfirst.org\/home-star\/\">HOME STAR<\/a> legislation is also passed, the firms involved in residential re-insulation and electric heat pump hot water heaters will also benefit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Job creation is no mystery for the business world:\u00a0 it begins and ends with new customers.\u00a0 Every policy initiative that pushes more customers to U.S. firms identified in these value chain studies is critical. \u00a0Hopefully, the Better Building Initiative is followed by a commitment to broader policy that puts us on a path to a low carbon economy.\u00a0 Broad policy creates customers for the many firms involved in the value chains for hundreds of climate solutions \u2013 whether renewables, energy efficiency, transportation, agricultural, industrial or other innovations. \u00a0And, at the end of the day, customers = jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Post By: Jackie Roberts, EDF&#8217;s\u00a0Director of Sustainable Technologies, National Climate Campaign The President\u2019s Better Buildings Initiative proposes to make American businesses more energy efficient through a series of new initiatives including newly designed tax incentives for building efficiency, better financing opportunities for commercial retrofits, a \u201cRace to Green\u201d for state and municipal governments that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,307,324],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-jobs","category-washington-dc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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