Increasing Energy Efficiency in New Buildings in the Southwest
Energy Codes and Best Practices
SWEEP's
new study examines the potential for and benefits from adopting and enforcing
up-to-date residential and commercial energy codes and "best practice" building
techniques in the Southwest states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah, and Wyoming. The study examines three scenarios - business-as-usual,
moderate efficiency improvement, and strong efficiency improvement - modeling
costs and energy savings for the latter two scenarios in 2010 and 2020.
The study also makes a series of policy recommendations to promote energy
codes and the construction of highly-efficient new buildings.
The following are links to the executive summary of the study, the complete
study, fact sheets for the six states, and SWEEP's press release announcing
the release of the study. All of the following documents are in Adobe Acrobat®
format and require the free Acrobat Reader software to view them. To obtain
your free copy of Acrobat Reader,
click here.
Increasing Energy Efficiency in New Buildings in the Southwest
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