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Saving Billions from Energy Efficiency in the Federal Sector: Institutionalizing Energy Efficiency in Facility Management
Saving Billions from Energy Efficiency in the Federal Sector: Institutionalizing Energy Efficiency in Facility Management
Pages 66-71
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The federal government is, in fact, the largest energy consumer in the country, using more energy than the entire state of Alabama. The Federal Energy Management Program has the task of leading this continuing effort.
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The federal government, with the help of the Federal Energy Management Program, has taken action to put government procurement in the service of energy efficiency. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 and Executive Order 12902 require federal agencies to purchase products that are at the upper end of energy efficiency, in fact the top 25 percent.
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Now we have Energy Star computers that use less energy than desktop computers did previously. The Federal Energy Management Program also offers leadership for those outside the federal government.
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As competition takes hold in the electricity industry, the federal government can take advantage of that competition as energy service companies offer to provide many of the services that utilities have provided in the past. Rules and procedures in place as a result of the Energy Policy Act are available to agencies to help them use energy savings performance contracts.
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The utility works with all of the agencies in its service territory Kirtland Air Force Base, several large Department of Energy facilities, Sandia and Los Alamos National laboratories, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Project facility and has offered to finance projects in its service territory. The opportunities to save energy at Kirtland alone would result in $7 million in energy savings and $500,000 in water conservation.
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Each of these champions will have a friend and partner at the Department of Energy. Collectively, we can not only stimulate the private sector to produce more energy efficient products, not only reduce pollution, but also help save the government billions of dollars.
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