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Companies are leading the way toward creating more energy efficient buildings. In this Bonus Scene of the Better Buildings Challenge SWAP (), brought to you by the U.S. Department of Energy, hear from Maria Vargas, director of the Better Buildings Challenge program talk about the importance of leadership and innovation to achieve energy savings goals.

Commercial buildings and industrial plants account for 50% of our nation’s primary energy use and cost about $400 billion annually to power/operate. The Better Buildings Challenge is aimed at achieving the goal of doubling American energy productivity by 2030 while motivating corporate and public-sector leaders across the country to save energy through commitments and investments. More than 285 organizations are partnering with the Energy Department to achieve 20 percent portfolio-wide energy savings and share successful strategies that maximize efficiency over the next decade. Across the country, partners have shared energy data for more than 32,000 properties and are reporting energy savings of 20 percent or more at 4,500 properties, and 10 percent or more at 12,000 properties.

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Transcript:
Through the Better Buildings Challenge, the Department of Energy has sought out and is now working with leaders across many different market elements in this country to be more energy efficient.

We’re trying to understand who’s leading the way, who the good role models are in energy efficiency. And then have others understand what they’re doing so they can follow their example and do what they do.

These organizations both on their own, are incredibly good at energy efficiency. So, the idea that they can continue to learn from each other, despite the differences in store size, despite the hotel versus a grocery store, the opportunities to be more energy efficient and to continue to learn about things you can do in your stores, your hotels, your hospitals, your schools, is really important.

In this country, we spend about 200-billion dollars a year to run commercial buildings.
And what we also know is about 20 or 30% of that energy is wasted. So, by using energy more effectively, more efficiently, we have a tremendous opportunity, not only to save energy and money, but to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.