The Biden administration’s Department of Energy finalized efficiency standards on a number of product types that will eventually affect commercial real estate, although not for a few years. They will apply to new products and do not require wholesale retrofitting.

The most closely covered one is the lightbulb standard, which is the final product of a long gestation. In 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act, signed by President George W. Bush, strengthened an executive order that sought greater energy efficiency. The law, passed by Congress, required, among other things, new standards for lightbulbs. They effectively would have made non-LED lighting types, like traditional incandescent and halogen, obsolete.


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