MEPS have been used by national and sub-national governments around the world and, while MEPS have typically taken between 4 and 10 years to develop and implement, we can shortcut this process to quickly cut energy waste and emissions from our built environment. First and foremost, we can take advantage of statistical data on national building stocks gathered from existing benchmarking programs, a precondition for setting MEPS that was not available in other locales where MEPS were first introduced. We can also leverage new technology and processes such as virtual energy audits, as well as tools to identify poor performing buildings such as energy heatmapping. Finally, we have the advantage of looking at numerous jurisdictions that have already implemented MEPS and heed the lessons learned to significantly reduce the time needed to scale up MEPS at any level of government.