Energy Data Hit by Fed Budget Cuts
Key Energy Data Hit Hard by Federal Budget Cuts
Source: www.buildinggreen.com
"Tracking the energy performance of commercial buildings—not an easy feat—just got even harder. Followers of the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) have been rocked by two recent announcements about the state of the survey, a program of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) at the Department of Energy. EIA announced that the 2007 survey data was not up to its statistical standards and would not be released, and that the 2011 survey was suspended as a result of budget cuts made by Congress in April 2011. The survey is normally conducted every four years, so the 2003 data set will continue indefinitely to be the most recent available."