{"id":2372,"date":"2018-12-11T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:28:54","slug":"addressing-unfunded-mandates-via-energy-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/12\/11\/addressing-unfunded-mandates-via-energy-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Unfunded Mandates Via Energy Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2373\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1264\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Chris-Russell-UMD-1024x633.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"chris.russell@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Russell<\/a>, State Buildings Program Manager<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability leaders gathered on\u00a0December 4, 2018 in College Park for the University System of Maryland Sustainability Summit at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The Maryland Energy Administration\u2019s Christopher Russell, Program Manager for State Buildings, addressed the perennial challenge of unfunded mandates. Russell introduced finance tactics and tools to attendees who pursue sustainability goals imposed without commensurate funding support.<\/p>\n<p>Russell explained energy performance contracting, which \u201dborrows against future energy savings to finance upgrades&#8221; of lighting, space conditioning, and other large mechanical systems. &#8220;When colleges and universities use energy savings this way, it reduces escalation of tuition rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similar opportunities await State and local government agencies as well.\u00a0To learn more about energy efficiency, visit us <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/Pages\/all-incentives.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher Russell, State Buildings Program Manager Sustainability leaders gathered on\u00a0December 4, 2018 in College Park for the University System of Maryland Sustainability Summit at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The Maryland Energy Administration\u2019s Christopher Russell, Program Manager for State Buildings, addressed the perennial challenge of unfunded mandates. Russell<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/12\/11\/addressing-unfunded-mandates-via-energy-savings\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}