
by Paul Karrer
In the wake of the Great Recession in 2009, Congress passed the Recovery Act to stimulate the national economy. Within that legislation, a pot of $3.1 billion in expanded State Energy Program (SEP) funding was linked to commitments from states to update their building energy codes and to develop plans to achieve greater rates of compliance by 2017.
By January 2014, BCAP projects that about two of every three U.S. states will have implemented building energy codes that meet o...
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