Listen: Webinar on Accelerating Energy Efficiency
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
ELPC hosted a webinar on June 9th to review opportunities to improve energy efficiency that have been created through the federal economic stimulus legislation. Th bill provides more than $15 billion to improve energy efficiency of homes, offices and public buildings in ways that reduce energy costs, avoid pollution, create jobs and support economic vitality.
Congress is now considering legislation that would create the first national energy efficiency standard, Illinois is advancing a new statewide energy efficient residential building code and the Chicago Climate Action Plan and other local initiatives call for rapidly expanding energy efficiency retrofits of buildings in our communities.
The webinar featured ELPC’s Executive Director Howard Learner, ELPC Clean Energy Policy Advocate Barry Matchett, and Craig Sieben, President of Sieben Energy Associates. They described how the federal economic stimulus funding is being designed and implemented, assessed the potential impact of new Illinois Energy Efficient Building Code and summarized a case study of how a commercial office building can gain efficiency benefits.
Listen: the webinar is available as a podcast for playback; click here to listen to the 30-minute energy efficiency presentation.
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