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Energy Efficiency: president Obama for green buildings
During his State of the Union address, President Obama embraced a variety of policy proposals, including several addressing energy efficiency.
America aims to the energy efficiency: this is what the President of the United States Barack Obama said during the annual State of the Union held a few days ago.
In his speech, Obama proposed copious political directions and a lot of energy efficiency policies. "A new aim for America: in the next twenty years we must reduce by at least half the energy wasted from our homes and offices" declared the President. To support this energy efficiency’s campaign, Obama made a smart investment that will be repaid in a few years.
To incentivize the realization of this aim, Obama declared that "the States with the best ideas about how to create new jobs and reduce energy costs in bills, through the construction of more energy efficient buildings, will receive a federal economical supports". In this end, the White House is discussing a "race to the top awards", a race in which States compete to implement the policies for the increase of energy efficiency and the decrease of reductions.
An initiative that doesn't seem too ambitious: last year the ACEEE, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, had already published a study that showed how this aim was reachable.
The President also discussed about a tax reform that will help the increasing of energy-efficiency interventions.
Obama’s aims show that he perfectly understood the importance of energy efficiency promotion. He declared that he wants to pursue the administrative and the legislative front in order to achieve this important goal "that will save the whole nation, will produce new jobs and will reduce pollution”.
In his speech, Obama proposed copious political directions and a lot of energy efficiency policies. "A new aim for America: in the next twenty years we must reduce by at least half the energy wasted from our homes and offices" declared the President. To support this energy efficiency’s campaign, Obama made a smart investment that will be repaid in a few years.
To incentivize the realization of this aim, Obama declared that "the States with the best ideas about how to create new jobs and reduce energy costs in bills, through the construction of more energy efficient buildings, will receive a federal economical supports". In this end, the White House is discussing a "race to the top awards", a race in which States compete to implement the policies for the increase of energy efficiency and the decrease of reductions.
An initiative that doesn't seem too ambitious: last year the ACEEE, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, had already published a study that showed how this aim was reachable.
The President also discussed about a tax reform that will help the increasing of energy-efficiency interventions.
Obama’s aims show that he perfectly understood the importance of energy efficiency promotion. He declared that he wants to pursue the administrative and the legislative front in order to achieve this important goal "that will save the whole nation, will produce new jobs and will reduce pollution”.
