# DOE's Commercial Buildings Integration program targets 30% energy cut by 2030, what it means for facility and operations teams

By MarketScale Newsroom · Published 2026-07-14 · Updated 2026-08-24 · Building Management on MarketScale
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> The DOE program targeting a 30% reduction in commercial building energy intensity has direct implications for facility, procurement, and ops leaders.

## Key points

- DOE aims for 30% energy reduction by 2030.
- Focus on energy efficiency in commercial buildings.
- Significant impact on facility and operations teams.

Commercial buildings in the United States consume 13.6 quadrillion Btu of electricity annually, representing 35% of all U.S. electricity use, and the sector spends $190 billion on energy every year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook 2020. Roughly 30% of that energy is wasted, the U.S. EPA estimates. The U.S. Department of Energy's Commercial Buildings Integration program is designed to close that gap, and the targets it has set are now directly relevant to any operations or facilities team planning multi-year capital investments.

## The numbers behind the program

The commercial building stock covers 93 billion square feet of U.S. real estate and accounts for 18% of national primary energy consumption, a figure the EIA equates to more than all of Canada's total energy use. Those numbers make the sector one of the largest addressable targets for cost and emissions reduction in the built environment.

## Sources

- [About the Commercial Buildings Integration Program](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/about-commercial-buildings-integration-program) (U.S. Department of Energy)
- [Annual Energy Outlook 2020](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/) (U.S. Energy Information Administration)

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