CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is out to prove that green buildings don’t have to be all that high tech.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is out to prove that green buildings don’t have to be all that high tech.
MIT and utility Nstar on Wednesday announced an energy efficiency initiative to cut its electricity usage by 15 percent over the next three years. If met, the reduction will be 34 million kilowatt-hours, or about the same as 4,500 homes in Massachusetts in a year.
The efficiency push, which MIT hopes will be a model for other institutions, is an offshoot of the MIT Energy Initiative launched five years ago, which has helped make MIT a vibrant source of clean-energy technology research and development. The university wanted to create a “living lab” for clean energy and efficiency, students and school administrators said during a press conference here.
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