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President Clinton and Clay Nesler
Clay Nesler (right), vice president, energy and sustainability, Johnson Controls Building Efficiency, joined former President Bill Clinton and others for the announcement of a new collaboration to promote and develop green tenant spaces in commercial buildings. The event was held at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.

Clinton recognizes Johnson Controls for energy efficiency collaboration

Calling Johnson Controls “a very great company,” former U.S. President Bill Clinton recognized a new collaboration formed by Johnson Controls and other organizations to promote and develop green tenant spaces in commercial buildings.

Johnson Controls will work with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Jones Lang LaSalle and Goldman Sachs among others to increase demand for green build-outs of commercial tenant spaces and energy efficiency upgrades to office buildings.

Representatives of the collaboration, including Clay Nesler, vice president, energy and sustainability, Johnson Controls Building Efficiency, joined Clinton on stage for the announcement at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, N.Y. on Sept. 20.

“Every owner of real estate wants to save costs and increase the value and competitiveness of their buildings,” Nesler said. “This initiative will apply our long-standing experience in designing, implementing, measuring and tracking energy savings to scale demand for both tenant build-outs and whole building retrofits for the billions of square feet of commercial buildings around the world.”

The three-year project will help create a model that can be repeated in billions of square feet of occupied tenant spaces around the world, potentially saving up to $33 billion per year in energy costs by 2030, according to a study from McKinsey & Company.

In his remarks, Clinton discussed Johnson Controls’ work on the energy-efficiency retrofit for the Empire State Building in New York City. The former president noted that Johnson Controls guaranteed a 38 percent savings in energy costs for the landmark building through a performance contract.

“I have tried to give Johnson Controls a little good publicity for their work as the energy service company at the Empire State Building,” Clinton said. “They created 275 jobs for all this work Johnson Controls supervised.”

In addition to the CGI annual meeting, Johnson Controls participated in several events for Climate Week NYC, a partnership between business, government and civil society convened by The Climate Group. Johnson Controls is a member of The Climate Group.
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