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Enigin News - Billions Available For Energy Saving From U.S. Stimulus Fund
Knoxville in the U.S has recently conducted an extensive energy audit and they are about to find out which of 99 city buildings are wasting the most energy.
Their timing couldn't have been better with a flood of U.S. federal government stimulus money earmarked for energy efficient measures will be available for them to fund the changes.
Knoxville’s preparation has placed the city in a good position to benefit, but experts worry that other U.S. cities are not ready to oversee the huge sums of energy-efficiency money about to come their way.
The money in the bill is enough to pay for a tremendous expansion of efficiency efforts across the U.S.
“There’s enormous opportunity here for expansion of energy efficiency in this country,” said Lowell Ungar, the policy director for the Alliance to Save Energy, an advocacy group. “But there is certainly the potential for waste.”
Public sector decision makers can benefit from the experience and expertise that Enigin bring to the energy efficiency market, with Distributors in the U.S. and worldwide able to help organisations with their energy efficiency audits and resulting implementation of programs and technologies.
Enigin Distributor in Daytona Beach, Florida, Ekon Energy Group, have already been instrumental in helping out the City of South Daytona and the Bethune Cookman University to become energy efficient - check out the video now.
In the U.S. accelerating the country’s energy transition is at the top of President Obama’s list, and experts in the field agree with him that carefully chosen investments in efficiency will ultimately save more than they cost, by cutting energy bills.
The stimulus package will start boosting the budgets of many States departments that are more used to scraping the barrel to fund projects, for example Utah expects that its state energy office will receive $40 million for energy efficiency and related programs — 123 times the size of the office’s current budget.
Commercial buildings in the States account for a large percentage of national energy consumption. Improving their efficiency is not only cost-effective but also a good way to reduce the nation’s emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
But figuring out how to spend the money effectively — learning which university buildings need energy efficiency more than others, for example, or which office buildings need energy efficient lighting management — can involve time-consuming, tricky analysis for skilled technicians.
“People are very conservative about their buildings,” said Donald Gilligan, the president of the National Association of Energy Service Companies, a trade group. “Nobody wants to put a failed technology into school buildings or have the lights not work.”
Enigin Distributors have the answers and the teams to be able to help organisations make wise choices as far as energy efficiencies are concerned, and then take the appropriate action.
Knoxville hopes to reduce the city’s energy bills as much as 25 percent, and the city is setting a lead for many other municipalities.
“There’s a lot of municipalities out there who are completely unaware this is moving forward,” Seth Kaplan, a vice president of the environmental group Conservation Law Foundation, stated - referring particularly to smaller cities. “They just don’t have the infrastructure in place to deal with this.”
Contact Enigin now so you do not miss out either on funding or on the saving available to you from become energy efficient.
Monday 1st March 2010
