Efficiency First

A White House fact sheet issued today in support of a speech by President Obama on the topic of energy security reiterates the administration’s support for the proposed HOME STAR incentive program. Under the heading “Innovating Our Way to a Clean Energy Future,” the fact sheet states that:

Our homes, businesses and factories consume over 70 percent of the energy we use.  By making smart investments in energy efficiency in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, we can improve U.S. competitiveness and protect our environment, while saving consumers money on electricity bills.  That is why the Administration is on track to weatherize 600,000 low-income homes through Recovery Act investments, and why we remain committed to a series of policies that increase efficiency across sectors – including a HOMESTAR program to help homeowners finance retrofits, a “Better Buildings Initiative” to make commercial facilities 20 percent more efficient by 2020, and steps to promote industrial energy efficiency.

It’s clear that residential energy efficiency remains a cornerstone of the administration’s goal of “keeping America on the cutting edge of clean energy technology so that we can build a 21^st century clean energy economy and win the future.”

Read the entire energy security fact sheet here: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/30/fact-sheet-americas-energy-security