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CCI Wields Purchasing Power for Energy Efficiency

The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) has announced several large partnerships in support of its Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, announced in May 2007 (see

EBN Vol. 16, No. 7). Working with 40 cities throughout the world, CCI has created a purchasing consortium to leverage buying power for lower prices on energy-saving technologies and to support the development of new technologies. The latest partners in this effort, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, are working with CCI to bring the benefits of the purchasing consortium to the 1,100 member cities of the Conference of Mayors. Among the organizations tapping into this purchasing power is the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which has announced a partnership with CCI and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to retrofit its more than 2,600 public housing buildings. NYCHA, the largest public housing authority in the U.S., will work with CCI and HUD to update its central heating plants, replace some hot water tanks with on-demand water heaters, upgrade lighting fixtures, and reduce overall electricity consumption by 15%. More information is available at www.clintonfoundation.org/cf-pgm-cci-home.htm or at www.nyc.gov/nycha.

Published January 1, 2008

Wendt, A. (2008, January 1). CCI Wields Purchasing Power for Energy Efficiency. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/cci-wields-purchasing-power-energy-efficiency

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