Bloomberg News reports on a scheduled Wednesday Capitol Hill briefing on increasing energy efficiency in the US to be hosted by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. The institute has found that “it takes about 50 percent less energy today than in 1973 to produce the same amount of gross domestic product,” yet the US is still “ninth among 12 of the world’s largest economies in energy efficiency, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.” Ross Eisenberg, Vice President of Energy and Resources Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, said the association favors a bill by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) that would “establish voluntary national model building codes and boost energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector.”
The U.K. came in first in the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy‘s 2012 energy efficiency ranking which included China, Brazil, Russia and Japan. The U.S. landed in ninth place in the survey which found that in the last decade the U.S. has made “limited or little progress toward greater efficiency at the national level.” READ MORE