The LEED-NC "Green Building" Rating System and Energy Efficiency in U.S. Commercial Buildings
By David M.Hart
Any serious effort to address climate change will require fundamental shifts in national energy systems. Nowhere is this more important than in China, where—to a greater degree than any other nation—desires for purposive change are intersecting with massive efforts to build out the country’s energy system. The China Energy Group is developing a practical understanding of this system through fine-grained analyses of energy investment and operational decision-making at the micro level. The work of the China Energy Group is anchored in our China Energy Survey, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive, nationwide survey of Chinese power plants. The first implementation of this survey, completed in early 2008, collected information on plant-level technology, financing, efficiency, environmental performance, ownership, fuel supply and supplier relations, and governmental relations.
Edward Cunningham
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Greg Distelhorst
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Valerie Jean Karplus
Doctoral Candidate
Engineering Systems Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard K. Lester
Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicholas Martin
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonas Nahm
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hiram Samel
Ford-MIT Energy Fellow
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kyoung Mun Shin
Doctoral Student
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward S. Steinfeld
Associate Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology