BALTIMORE — The “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe,” launched in November 2011 by the Alliance to Save Energy and the U.S. State Department’s League of Green Embassies, is nearing completion. In its wake, building makeovers are helping residences and offices of 10 U.S. ambassadors across Europe save energy and money.
In addition, the success of the program in Europe has inspired embassies in Washington, D.C., to promote and employ energy-saving efficient technologies. In fact, more than 40 embassies and international organizations joined with Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Patrick Kennedy, under secretary of the Department of State, on Jan. 31, 2012, to pledge to make their buildings and operations more sustainable.