Better Buildings Accelerators | Better Buildings Initiative

Building Energy Data Analysis Building Energy Data Analysis Develop and test a unique building identifier (UBID) that enables spatial tagging to reduce the barriers to and cost of joining different building datasets.	Clean Energy for Low Income Communities - Completed Clean Energy for Low Income Communities - Completed Develop plans to identify funding that will lead to expanded installation of energy efficiency and distributed renewables in low-to-moderate income communities.	Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency - Completed Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency - Completed Develop plans for communities to capitalize on CHP’s strengths as a reliable, high efficiency, lower emissions electricity and heating/cooling source for critical infrastructure.
Data Centers Data Centers Reduce the infrastructure energy intensity of one or more data centers by 25 percent over a period of five years.	Energy Data - Completed Energy Data - Completed Local governments joined with their local utilities to develop technical solutions that expand building owners' access to whole-building energy usage data for benchmarking.	Energy Savings Performance Contracting - Completed Energy Savings Performance Contracting - Completed Catalyze $2 billion in public-sector energy efficiency investments through the use of innovative and best-practice approaches to ESPC.
Home Energy Information - Completed Home Energy Information - Completed A collaborative effort making energy-related information more available to home buyers and sellers in real estate transactions through multiple listing services and reports.	Home Upgrade Program - Completed Home Upgrade Program - Completed Minimize program costs and improve and expand savings through use of information technology and common data standards to streamline data exchange.	Industrial Superior Energy Performance - Completed Industrial Superior Energy Performance - Completed Utilities and administrators are deploying SEP programs across their service territories and manufacturers are implementing SEP across a corporation or multiple plants.
Outdoor Lighting - Completed Outdoor Lighting - Completed Accelerate the adoption of high-efficiency outdoor lighting and improve system-wide replacement processes.	Packaged Combined Heat and Power Packaged Combined Heat and Power Partners will validate that installation times and total project costs for pre-engineered, technically-validated packaged CHP systems can be reduced by 20% or more.	Smart Labs Smart Labs Universities, federal agencies, national labs, hospitals, and corporations commit to advancing strategies that rapidly improve energy efficiency in laboratory buildings.
Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure of the Future Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure of the Future State, regional, and local agencies work to improve the energy efficiency of water resource recovery facilities by at least 30% on their path to more sustainable infrastructure.	Zero Energy Districts Zero Energy Districts Partners demonstrate how to plan for and develop Zero Energy Districts, which are designed to maximize energy efficiency and use renewable energy at a district scale.	Zero Energy Schools Zero Energy Schools States and school districts will work together to develop a road map for zero energy schools.

Better Buildings Accelerators

Better Buildings Accelerators are designed to demonstrate specific innovative policies and approaches, which will accelerate investment in energy efficiency upon successful demonstration. Each Accelerator is a targeted, short-term, partner-focused activity designed to address persistent barriers that stand in the way of greater efficiency. To learn more about Accelerators, view the Overview Fact Sheet.