While energy efficiency remains at the forefront of trends impacting the HVACR industry, it’s not only efficiency that the industry — and country — needs to be thinking about. We also need to address energy productivity: increasing GDP while reducing energy use. In fact, the Alliance to Save Energy recently announced an initiative to double energy productivity by 2030 — a goal that could save the United States $327 billion annually in avoided energy costs, create 1.3 million jobs, reduce imports to a mere 7% of overall energy consumption, and lower greenhouse gas emissions by 1/3 compared to the level emitted in 2005.
Reaching this ambitious goal, however, requires collaboration between the public and private sector on four critical aspects.