June 28, 2002—The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently launched the newest Energy Star performance-rating tool for hotels. For the first time, hotels can benchmark their energy performance against others on a nationwide scale of 1 to 100.
The first two hotels in the country to receive the Energy Star label for superior energy performance were Courtyard Indianapolis Capital and the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
According to EPA, the hotel industry spends almost $5 billion a year on energy bills. If hotels improved their energy efficiency by an average of 30 percent, the annual electricity bill savings would be nearly $1.5 billion, and almost 6 million fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide would be emitted.
For more information about the Energy Star program, contact EPA.
