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With the passage of Georgia’s Constitutional Amendment 4 on November 2, 2010, the State of Georgia took a major step forward for energy efficiency in state facilities via Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC). Georgia taxpayers and citizens will see the following potential benefits:

I love the holiday season with its festive spirit. We shop for holiday gifts for our loved ones, and ring in the New Year with hope for a better year to come. What could be more fun? Unfortunately, it is one of the least kindest seasons of the year to Mother Earth.

It bears repeating that seventy-two percent of all electricity consumption and thirty-nine percent of all energy consumption takes place in America's buildings. Using energy efficiency strategies in modernization or major renovation projects can reduce those electricity and energy consumptions by up to fifty percent. Simply implementing sustainable Operations & Maintenance (O&M) practices (without significant capital improvements) can create up to a twenty-four percent reduction. Even a non-environmentalist can appreciate the massive cost savings in those kinds of numbers!

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This month I want to persuade you to buy a car. It's a compact sedan with a small trunk, good gas economy although the performance is nothing to write home about. Not a great start I hear you cry. And it gets worse. I am going to charge you several thousand dollars more for this car than other highly efficient and better equipped cars on the market.