Efficiency First

Washington Post environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin interviewed Matt Golden of Efficiency First this week for an article about the federal Retrofit Ramp-Up funding announced yesterday (see our previous post about the announcement). Here’s an excerpt:

Matt Golden, a northern California contractor and member of the contractor coalition Efficiency First, said the federal funding could help revive the nation’s building industry. The administration estimates that the 25 projects announced Wednesday will leverage about $2.8 billion of investment from the private sector over the next 3 years to retrofit homes and businesses.

“The construction industry is in the middle of a toolbelt recession, with a workforce that wants to work and contractors who want to hire,” Golden said. “This type of federal leadership is the low-bureaucracy way to send the market signal we need to put people back to work, save energy and give taxpayers a real return on investment.”

Read the rest of the Washington Post article here:
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/04/biden_ramps_up_retrofitting.html