The City of Atlanta, businesses and nonprofit organizations are uniting upgrade energy efficiency in Atlanta's 220 block downtown improvement district. The goal is to improve energy performance by 20 percent by 2020.
They expect to partner with banks, funds energy service companies and others to do retrofits of downtown university, healthcare, municipal, and commercial buildings. The retrofits alone are expected to exceed 2 million square feet. It is part of the Better Buildings Challenge Community Partners being spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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