Our fight against the climate crisis is a lot like a decathlon, with all kinds of individual contests we need to get through and we can t win unless we do well in them all, said Secretary Granholm. Today s decathletes are tomorrow s architects and engineers who are going to help us achieve President Biden s ambitious and achievable clean energy goals and build our net-zero future. I can t wait to see their big ideas come to life in neighborhoods across the country and around the world.
According to DOE analysis, buildings currently account for approximately 74% of electricity use, 39% of total energy use, and 35% of carbon emissions in the United States. There are more than 125 million buildings in the nation that need retrofits to achieve the Administration s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 which President Biden s American Jobs Plan proposes to address. The Solar Decathlon supports a key strategy to bring that vision to life, by building a pipeline of energy-savvy workers p