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Energy Efficiency

Making Efficiency a More Efficient Business

How energy efficiency professionals can make the most out of these new Better Buildings Neighborhood Program features.

Energy Department’s Hospital Energy Alliance Helps Partner Save Energy and Money
Gundersen Health System teamed up with La Crosse County to turn methane gas from the county's landfill into electricity and heat for the Gundersen Lutheran - Onalaska Campus, making it the first-known energy independent medical campus in the U.S. | Photo courtesy of Gundersen Health System.

How energy efficiency is helping one healthcare organization improve facilities and reduce environmental impacts.

Nashville Turns an Eyesore into an Energy-Efficient Asset
The completed Nashville Bridge Company's building (called NABRICO for short) includes a geothermal heat pump system to keep public energy costs low. | Photo courtesy of David Powell, AIA.

A century-old building on Nashville's waterfront is revitalized with help from an Energy Department grant.

Going Big: Building the Largest Ever Energy Efficiency Project
New screening equipment used to refine wood chips at the North Pacific Paper Corporation paper mill in Longview, Wash., is expected to save NORPAC 100 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year, which is enough energy to serve 8,000 Northwest homes. Construction of the chip pretreatment structure, shown here, is scheduled to be completed in 2013. | Photo courtesy of Bonneville Power Administration.

A paper mill in Washington State is changing the way it conserves electricity and is saving money.