{"id":2645,"date":"2021-05-03T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/piedmont-office-realty-trust-earns-2021-energy-star-partner-of-the-year-award\/2645\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:49:27","slug":"piedmont-office-realty-trust-earns-2021-energy-star-partner-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/piedmont-office-realty-trust-earns-2021-energy-star-partner-of-the-year-award\/2645\/","title":{"rendered":"PIEDMONT OFFICE REALTY TRUST EARNS 2021 ENERGY STAR\u00ae PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> Department of Energy have recognized the Company as a 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year.  <\/p>\n<p>Each year, the ENERGY STAR program honors a group of businesses and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy achievements.ENERGY STAR Award Winners lead their industries in the production, sale, and adoption of energy-efficient products, services, and strategies. These efforts are essential to addressing the human impact on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiedmont is honored to receive the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award, recognizing our accomplishments to date and our ongoing commitment to reduce energy consumption within our buildings. More and more businesses are focused on their impact on the environment and the communities in which they live and work. Piedmont is proud to be a leader in real estate sustainability which benefits our tenants by lowering operating expenses as well as reducing their carbon footprint,\u201d said C. Brent Smith, Piedmont\u2019s President and Chief Executive Officer. <\/p>\n<p>Piedmont\u2019s 2020 accomplishments related to award-winning energy management programs included:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Earned ENERGY STAR recognition for 41 buildings (12.2 million square feet).<\/li>\n<li>Benchmarked 100% of managed office assets for energy and water usage, within ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Continued our progress toward achieving our goals of 20% energy, water, and greenhouse gas emissions by 2026, 2028, and 2028, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Piloted multiple cutting edge, efficiency technologies and healthy building strategies throughout the portfolio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cENERGY STAR award-winning partners are showing the world that delivering real climate solutions makes good business sense and promotes job growth,\u201d said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. \u201cMany of them have been doing it for years, inspiring all of us who are committed to tackling the climate crisis and leading the way to a clean energy economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winners were selected from a network of thousands of ENERGY STAR partners. For a complete list of 2021 winners and more information about ENERGY STAR\u2019s awards program, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/awardwinners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><u>energystar.gov\/awardwinners<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Piedmont Office Realty Trust<\/strong><br \/>Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc.(NYSE: PDM) is an owner, manager, developer, redeveloper, and operator of high-quality, Class A office properties located primarily in select sub-markets within seven majorEastern U.S.office markets, with the majority of its revenue being generated from the Sunbelt. Its geographically-diversified, approximately$5 billionportfolio is currently comprised of approximately 17 million square feet. The Company is a fully-integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) with local management offices in each of its markets and is investment-grade rated byS&amp;P Global Ratings(BBB) and Moody\u2019s (Baa2). As ofMarch 31, 2021, approximately 74% of the Company\u2019s portfolio was ENERGY STAR certified and approximately 43% was LEED certified. For more information, see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.piedmontreit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.piedmontreit.com\">www.piedmontreit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About ENERGY STAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ENERGY STAR\u00aeis the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local organizations\u2014including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500\u00ae\u2014rely on their partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped American families and businesses avoid more than $450 billion in energy costs and achieve 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at:<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energystar.gov%2Fabout&amp;data=02%7C01%7CJones.Enesta%40epa.gov%7C67bbc14dfcbc4439120308d7d4d6d886%7C88b378b367484867acf976aacbeca6a7%7C0%7C0%7C637211891522846146&amp;sdata=rTshBuTLciHqrzgxnO1Y%2FrZGkqya3RV3ZCRYUIWKufU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/about<\/a>and<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energystar.gov%2Fabout%2Forigins_mission%2Fenergy_star_numbers&amp;data=02%7C01%7CJones.Enesta%40epa.gov%7C67bbc14dfcbc4439120308d7d4d6d886%7C88b378b367484867acf976aacbeca6a7%7C0%7C0%7C637211891522846146&amp;sdata=XiBeJyoWw76BxsfegO03JQySOSNFN5tY10SESKYTOkw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/about\/origins_mission\/energy_star_numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Jon Kuskie<\/strong><br \/>Director of Sustainability and National Initiatives<br \/><strong>Piedmont Office Realty Trust<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"mailto:Jon.kuskie@piedmontreit.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><u>Jon.kuskie@piedmontreit.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/release\/track\/e4306b6d-dd77-4182-89c6-f5552016117d\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Atlanta, GA, April 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: PDM) today announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1reason.com\/re\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}