Taking Small Steps to Reduce Use Is Cost-Effective, Energy-Efficient
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| A simple rooftop photovoltaic system can reduce a building’s overall energy demand, such as the 20 kilowatt system atop Boston’s MATCH School, which produces 14 percent of the school’s electricity. |
By George Metzger & Chin Lin
A decade ago, if you asked average building owners if they had ever considered constructing green buildings, the thought bubble above their heads might have contained a cartoon of a mud-walled bunker with rooftop cisterns covered in large, unwieldy solar panels – more survivalist than sustainable.
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