Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) Require Lower Energy Usage Requirements and Elimination of Carbon. Get Informed and Fight For Equitable Policy.
Can your building afford $45 per square foot to comply with laws? Plan with your facilities manager and find out about government programs that can assist.
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Benchmarking and Paths to Compliance are Now Required -- But Can We Afford Them?
Both Maryland Department of Energy (MDE) and The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection Legislated Draft Regulations. Read about them (below.)
Maryland regulations are currently on hold, after key issues were revealed during a January 25 hearing for the House and Senate Committees on the Environment. The state allows for no alternate pathways to compliance but instead imposes stiff fines.
Buildings For Energy Fairness is a Grass Roots Movement
Meet with elected officials and change the law
Maryland BEPS policy is overambitious, leading the nation in Performance Standards. If your building is a condo or co-op but not affordable housing, you may find fewer resources than you need, and without the revenue streams available to commercial counterparts who can more easily afford energy efficient measures (EEM). Yet it is not clear that energy companies will ever supply enough electricity to electrify all of Maryland. And what is Pepco doing to meet climate challenges? Let's insist that government and industry do their parts to make compliance affordable.
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Maryland condos and co-ops are not directly eligible for tax incentives from the Federal, State, and County grants and loans unless they are affordable housing. You will need tax advice to take advantage of them.
