Scheduled energy-efficiency upgrades worth more than $2 billion will put Americans back to work, an article on The White House website said.
As part of President Obama’s “We Can’t Wait” initiative, the president challenged federal agencies in December to make at least $2 billion worth of energy-efficiency upgrades to its buildings over the next two years. According to the article, federal agencies have identified $2.1 billion worth of projects that will “pay for themselves using performance-based contracts.”
More than $100 million in Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) and Utility Energy Savings Contracts (UESCs) has been awarded for the projects already. An additional $1.2 billion in projects are in development.
|
Agency |
Agency-Reported Performance Contracting Target (ESPC + UESC) |
|
Agriculture |
$5,000,000 |
|
Commerce |
$5,000,000 |
|
Defense |
$1,180,000,000 |
|
Homeland Security |
$48,000,000 |
|
Energy |
$100,000,000 |
|
Environmental Protection Agency |
$9,000,000 |
|
General Services Administration |
$175,000,000 |
|
Health and Human Services |
$35,200,000 |
|
Interior |
$5,000,000 |
|
Justice |
$192,000,000 |
|
Labor |
$3,000,000 |
|
National Archives and Records Administration |
$5,000,000 |
|
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
$19,600,000 |
|
Office of Personnel Management |
$1,000,000 |
|
Smithsonian |
$9,600,000 |
|
Social Security Administration |
$8,100,000 |
|
State |
$4,900,000 |
|
Transportation |
$36,000,000 |
|
Treasury |
$9,500,000 |
|
Tennessee Valley Authority |
$17,000,000 |
|
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
$2,500,000 |
|
United States Postal Service |
$28,000,000 |
|
Veterans Affairs |
$160,000,000 |
|
Other |
$6,000,000 |
|
Total |
$2,064,400,000 |
“These federal agencies join leading corporations, colleges and universities, hospitals, cities, and states that together have committed nearly $2 billion in private capital investments, and more than 1.6 billion square feet of building and industrial space to upgrade energy performance by at least 20 percent by 2020 through the Better Buildings Challenge,” the article said.
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