On May 7th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the launch of the ENERGY STAR NextGen new home certification program. This latest energy efficiency certification is a voluntary program aimed at residential new [...]
Join us on Thursday, May 30 at 1:30 PM EST as we sit down with Laruen Ross, Deputy Director of Energy Justice at the DOE's Office of Energy Justice and Equity, and Dylan Martello, Senior Building Systems Consultant at Steven Winter Associates, to discuss the decarbonization of affordable housing, both in new builds and retrofits.
Across the country, states have been enacting legislation requiring gas and electric utilities to decarbonize their systems. Often, these bills complement statewide initiatives to reduce either total greenhouse gas emissions or specifically buildings-related emissions. [...]
Join us Wednesday, May 1 at 9:30am EST for a discussion on progress and developments in electrifying buildings in cold climates with Marnese Jackson, Executive Director of the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, and Michael Stoddard, Executive Director of Efficiency Maine.
On March 20, the International Code Council (ICC) finalized its residential and commercial building provisions for the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), a reference code that many states consult for their statewide building [...]
The residential and commercial building landscape features a diversity of space heating, cooling, and water heating equipment. These technologies vary in terms of the fuels they draw on and their efficiency, with electric heat [...]
At the federal, state, and local levels, there is a verifiable ongoing effort to electrify public buildings. Our last digest focused on states with “lead by example” electrification and decarbonization policies for their municipal [...]
According to Buildings Hub’s Market Factors dashboard, about 13 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the domestic building stock. Additionally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated in 2019 that the building [...]
By nearly all accounts and measures, California is the most climate-forward state. California’s climate stances and policies set the tone for the rest of the country and, occasionally, for industry. For example, in 2018 [...]
Every few years, the Energy Information Agency (EIA) sends around the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), a national sample survey of commercial buildings and all of their energy-related characteristics and activities. The latest [...]
