Description
The Biden Administration has committed to putting the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050[1]. Agencies are directed to, among other things, implement a Government-wide approach that reduces climate pollution, increases resilience to the impacts of climate change and spurs economic growth through innovation, commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies and infrastructure.[2] Working towards these and other goals, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain responses from vendors and other interested parties on retrofit technologies that help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of commercial buildings and have significant potential for equitable and wide adoption in the U.S. marketplace. This includes, but is not limited to, technologies that produce or enable on-site energy savings, load flexibility, carbon-free, clean power generation, or carbon capture, and technologies that use lower global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants, decarbonized heating and cooling systems or other solutions that provide improvements towards transitioning commercial buildings to net-zero carbon emissions. Responses will be evaluated not only on energy efficiency and decarbonization capabilities, but also on the ability to reduce the energy burdens in underserved and disadvantaged communities. [1] White House Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Executive Order No. 14008, January 27, 2021, section 201, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/ . [2] Ibid.