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| Energy Finder Description Energy Finder, One-page Description The Energy Finder is an interactive, web-based tool that enables communities to explore untapped opportunities for economic development, pollution prevention, and risk reduction through energy efficiency. It helps any community estimate these benefits and provides details to get them started on their own energy projects. Since approximately 40 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. is for the building sector, and about 90 percent of that energy comes from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), increasing energy efficiency in a community can go a long way towards saving money and reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The Energy Finder mimics an expert consultant’s preliminary analysis of what a community can do to save money and create jobs through energy efficiency, but costs the community nothing. |