- Buildings consume approximately half of all the energy used in the USA and 75% of all electricity. Fossil fuels supply 76% of the energy consumed by these
- buildings.*
- Building energy retrofits (applying EE measures to existing buildings):
- Reduces Energy Consumption
- Saves owners money
- Reduces CO2 emissions**
- Scaling retrofits could mitigate more than 600 million metric tons of CO2 per year (or about 10% of US emissions)
- Creates new jobs**
- Increased building retrofits could create more than 3.3 million new cumulative job years in the US economy.
* According to the US EIA
** According to US Building EE Retrofits by the Rockefeller Foundation and DB
