The Town of East Hartford joined 36 organizations from around the country in President Barack Obama’s Better Building Challenge, designed to reduce energy use in facilities.
East Hartford will establish a town-wide energy use benchmark and reduce it 20 percent by 2020.
To accomplish this, the town will sign energy performance contracts, replace streetlights, install better windows and incorporate energy efficiency measures in a library expansion project.
Obama launched the Better Buildings Challenge in 2011 to leverage nearly $4 billion in private and public investments to reduce energy use across the country. More than 100 organizations have joined, representing 2 billion square feet of building space.
