On December 7, 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the first-ever Federal Building Performance Standard. The Federal Building Performance Standard requires agencies to cut energy use and electrify equipment and appliances to achieve zero scope 1 emissions in 30 percent of the building space owned by the Federal government by square footage by 2030. As the country’s single largest energy consumer and building manager, these new actions will save taxpayer dollars by reducing energy use while cutting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience, strengthening U.S. energy independence, and growing the jobs and industries of the future in America. Read the Federal Building Performance Standard.
As a complementary step, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) also announced on December 7, 2022, a proposed rulemaking to electrify new or newly renovated Federal buildings. Learn more about this proposed rulemaking.
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