City postpones energy deadline for buildings larger than 25,000 sq. ft.
Denver’s effort to reform how its larger buildings use energy ran into resistance a couple of years ago, and now the city, through its “Energize Denver” program, has postponed a deadline for large building owners to comply.
The Denver Gazette reported that Energize Denver has moved its target for compliance from 2025 to 2026 and eliminated a 2027 compliance. A 2030 final compliance target, although still in effect, will be flexible.
In Colorado Springs, the Gazette — a sister publication to the Denver Gazette — snickered in triumph
“Denver City Hall’s dogma-driven response to the oft-promised climate ‘crisis’ includes a gut punch to the city’s commercial property owners,” said the Gazette editorial page. It called the Energize Denver agenda “absurdly costly and unworkable.”
The schedule was too aggressive and the standards unrealistic by compelling “conversion to unproven and likely inadequate heat-pump technology(that was) never intended to warm large buildings in Colorado’s climate.”
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