•The Better Buildings Act to encourage commercial building tenants to saveenergy through a "Tenant Star" recognition program and green leasesthat all benefit from the cost savings;
• A provision to encourage benchmarking and public disclosure of energy use incommercial buildings, following a strategy several cities around the countryhave adopted to encourage more efficiency;
• The Energy Efficient Government Technology Act for federal agencies todevelop strategies to implement energy-saving information technologies frombuilding energy management to telework, and to improve efficiency of federaldata centers, and
• A provision to address concerns that recent efficiency standards for waterheaters could interfere with their use in demand response programs run by ruraland other utilities.