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Article: Energy Star label now open to hospitals
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- Building Operating Management
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Trade Press Publishing Company Feb 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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With the expansion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR program, hospitals will for the first time be able to benchmark their energy performance against others nationwide on a scale of 1-to-100. The best performing hospitals can qualify for an ENERGY STAR Label.
Hospitals use more than twice as much energy per square foot as office buildings. In total, hospitals consume almost 50 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and spend close to $3 billion each year on electricity alone. Hospital energy costs can run as much as 8 percent of operating expenses. If all hospitals improved energy efficiency an average of 30 percent, the annual national electricity ...