New York City passes bills requiring major energy cuts in buildings

Crain's New York Business reports:

The City Council passed sweeping legislation on Thursday that will require substantial reductions of fossil-fuel consumption in buildings 25,000 square feet or larger.

The package of 10 bills includes other mandates with the same goal: to cut the city's emissions of greenhouse gases.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign the initiatives into law on Earth Day this Monday. Efforts by owners of large office buildings to modify the legislation were largely ignored, although religious institutions, hospitals and some others won some modifications.

Energy experts described the legislation as a major upheaval to the way that buildings, which produce two-thirds of the city's greenhouse-gas emissions, consume energy.

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