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Better Buildings Challenge Partner, Sabey Data Centers, improved its every performance 24 percent in 10 years.

Alabama Power’s Smart Neighborhood is nearly complete, bringing together 62 high-performance, connected homes and a community microgrid.

Model building energy codes can save $126 billion in energy cost savings between 2010 and 2040 – but only if buildings are built to code.

OEMR utilized Petroleum Violation Escrow funds under the authorization of the Energy Department’s State Energy Program.

DOE’s RTU Campaign recognized seven businesses for their leadership in energy-efficient commercial buildings.

ORNL launched the JUMP into STEM initiative to advance student skills in the STEM fields and encourage early-stage research in energy efficiency.

At LIGHTFAIR International, held a few weeks ago in the Windy City, DOE’s SSL team played to standing room only crowds in our award-winning booth…

These projects are funded through DOE’s SBIR and STTR programs, which are competitively awarded based on scientific and technical merit.

DOE announced progress made by 900+ organizations that are driving energy efficiency in the U.S. economy through the Better Buildings Initiative.

Today DOE announced up to $11.5 million to support early-stage research and validation of energy performance improvements in residential buildings.

With a rapidly changing energy industry, Southern Company recognizes that accelerating technology development is more important than ever.

Funding will help support Administration’s goal to drive U.S. leadership in energy-saving building technologies.

Enabling smarter grids has the potential to create a revolution in the building sector that will save energy and costs.

Improving the operational performance of America’s buildings offers significant energy and cost savings.

DOE today unveiled the fourth installment of the "Better Buildings Challenge SWAP," featuring General Motors and L'Oréal USA.

DOE announced the winners of its fifth annual Race to Zero Student Design Competition.

Karma Sawyer is the Program Manager for Emerging Technologies.

The campaign works with commercial building owners that wish to upgrade to high-efficiency RTU technologies and practices in commercial buildings.

Often located in small- to medium-sized buildings, small businesses face a common barrier to maximizing economic growth – energy costs.

Numerous barriers persist to widespread uptake and implementation of smart building technologies.

To help city staff and program administrators manage energy data, IIMT recently released the Putting Data to Work toolkit.

HVAC, water heating, and other appliances represent more than half of the total energy used in U.S. residential and commercial buildings.

BTO recently released a retrospective benefit-cost analysis that quantifies the impact of Building America activities in the new residential market.

Zero energy buildings are defined by the Building Technologies Office (BTO) as extremely energy-efficient buildings.

It's no surprise that aging properties are in desperate need of improvements given that nearly 60% of multifamily buildings were built before 1980.