North Carolina’s energy conservation code to get tighter after all

Energy News Network: New homes built in North Carolina will be more energy efficient after all.

The state’s Building Code Council does not plan to appeal a ruling that it broke the law when it weakened planned changes to the state’s residential energy conservation code.

The state’s new building codebook has been sent to a printer and will officially take effect Jan. 1 after a more than year-long saga over what efficiency advocates described as modest improvements over the previous version.

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