California's New Green Building Code Creates Opportunities for Enigin Partners
The US' first state-wide mandatory green building code was adopted earlier this month by the state of California, as announced by its Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This code, called the Green Building Standards Code - or CALGREEN - will come into force in January 2011. It will impose that all of the state's new buildings have to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
Governor Schwarzenegger outlined the code's aim: “The code will help us meet our goals of curbing global warming and achieving 33% renewable energy by 2020 and promotes the development of more sustainable communities by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy efficiency in every new home, office building or public structure."
CALGREEN will require large non-residential buildings (over 900 m2) to have audits of energy systems including furnaces, heat pumps and air conditioners to ensure that systems are operating to their maximum efficiency.
CALGREEN will also include a number of voluntary provisions designed to encourage new buildings be more energy efficient and conserve natural resources.
Energy efficiency, through energy efficiency specialists such as Enigin PLC, is indeed the number one cost-effective solution to reducing emissions and saving money on energy bill.
Enigin distributors are able to cater for the exact solutions that buildings in California, but also worldwide, will be needing in order to become energy efficient in compliance to the new code. This presents Enigin partners with an un-paralleled business opportunity, and places them at the heart of demand.
Enigin distributors deliver the latest technology in energy efficiency in their wide range of products, and can respond to demand anywhere in the world, putting their knowledge and expertise at the service of business owners wishing to eradiquate energy wastage, excessively high energy bills and carbon emissions.
In order to be compliant to the new standards and to pass the energy efficiency audits that will be conducted, business owners can turn to Enigin who can provide the most useful tool - Eniscope. Eniscope is a smart monitoring instrument which measures energy consumption, identifies wastage and enables business owners to analyse energy usage trends.
Enigin solutions include the most essential energy consuming needs, which buildings encounter the most, such as lighting, air conditioning, refrigeration and motor driven production facilities.
This new code represents a great initiative because it imposes energy efficient measures on public buildings, in order to achieve a broad impact on reducing carbon emissions. Saving energy also implies saving on energy costs, which will not be negligible for business owners, especially with the constant rise of energy prices.
The California Air Resources Board estimates that the new code will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an equivalent of 3 million metric tons of CO2 by 2020.
