MICHIGAN CURRENT CODE
Residential: 2003 IRC, with reference to the 2004 IECC supplement Commercial: ASHRAE/IESNA 90.11999 DEMOGRAPHICS Population: 10,003,422 Total Housing Units: 4,331,986 ENERGY CONSUMPTION
Michigan will receive $82 Million from the federal government if the state adopts the latest energy codes: IECC 2009 (International Energy Conservation Code) ASHRAE 90.1 2007 (American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers) Accumulated residential sector savings, 2009 to 2030, would be: 9.9 trillion Btu of energy 645 thousand metric tons of CO2 (Equivalent to annual greenhouse gases for 118,132 passenger vehicles)
$87 million
$87 million would more than pay the full undergraduate tuition of current students at private universities in Michigan.
Residential Sector: 745.7 Trillion BTU
FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES: In February 2009 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated $3.1 billion for U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program (SEP) to 78% of the state’s natural gas assist states with building energy efficiency efforts. As one of the requiresupply is used for heating the home. ments to receive SEP grants, state governors must certify to DOE that their state will implement energy codes of equal or greater stringency than the Natural gas is the largest consumed source of energy for the latest national model codes (currently IECC 2009 and Standard 90.1-2007). state’s residential sector. Thus, it is in the state’s best economic interests to adopt these standards statewide and begin enjoying the benefits of an efficient building sector. Residential use of natural gas
Commercial Sector: 602.6 Trillion BTU
in Michigan costs up to $10.75/thousand cu ft.
CODE ADOPTION AND CHANGE PROCESS: Regulatory: The MichiCODE CHANGE CYCLE gan Uniform Energy Code (MUEC) is promulgated by the Bureau of ConThree year code review cy- struction Codes & Fire Safety, and is evaluated for revisions or modificacle. tions every three years. For more information please consult the Building Codes Assistance Project (www.bcap-energy.org) or Nick Zigelbaum (
[email protected])
BCAP BCAP 1850 M St. NW Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20036 | www.bcap-energy.org