The U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Neighborhood Program has help make energy efficiency more accessible to homes and businesses nationwide over the past five years. The program has:
- Upgraded more than 119,000 residential and commercial buildings to be more energy efficient
- Performed more than 250,000 residential and commercial energy assessments
- Developed sustainable energy efficiency upgrade programs, approximately three-fourths of which continued through at least 2014 without additional DOE funding
- Saved consumers $850 million in estimated lifetime energy savings, in addition to improving the comfort of their homes and buildings
- Trained more than 5,600 home performance workers to enhance their skills
- Completed more than $878 million worth of energy upgrades
- Leveraged more than $440 million in private capital and other capital for financing building energy efficiency upgrades.
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