For commercial residential property owners, it is important to understand why municipalities and utilities offer financial incentives for energy efficiency retrofits. It is because we’ve added a new line to our national anthem and it is all about reducing our national energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. For the municipalities, the drivers are state and federal dollars that incent the municipalities directly for implementing programs like Energy Upgrade California. These programs promote energy conservation and efficiency by offering financial incentives to property owners that apply energy saving retrofits and upgrades to their buildings.
America has become a nation of fossil fuel junkies shooting foreign oil into veins of comfort and transportation through the scar tissue of habit. We cannot have the independence that our founding fathers envisioned for us until we overcome our national dependency on imported fossil fuels. American fathers and sons die as soldiers in wars that protect our national freedom yet we sacrifice just a little bit of that freedom every time we fill our gas tanks or turn up the heater. Energy conservation is the civic and moral responsibility of every freedom loving American.
Multi-residential property owners don’t have to be cold at home and take the bus instead of driving but they should feel responsible for insuring that their tenants are operating energy efficient appliances; especially considering that this is to the property owner’s best financial interest. All levels of our government understand and recognize our national energy vulnerability and municipal energy efficiency incentive programs are the direct result of our political leaders addressing our national energy problem by incenting and implementing a necessary change.
