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Retrofit Navigators: Building Retrofit Programs that Advance Climate, Housing, and Community Goals
This report from BEI outlines the issue with traditional retrofit programs and how to design better programs, including examples from programs in Philadelphia, Madison, and New York City.
Beyond the Building: Strengthening Neighborhood Resilience Through Energy Efficiency Programs
ACEEE researchers find that energy efficiency upgrades and heat pumps installed in multiple buildings in an area provide benefits beyond each individual building by reducing local peak demand and the likelihood of outages. An analysis of commercial and residential buildings in Westchester County, New York finds that building envelope sealing and heat pumps in multiple buildings reduce summer peak demand by 8 percent and outage time by 63 percent.
Momentum Q2 | 2025
The Buildings Decarbonization Coalition details developments in the second quarter of 2025, including the latest HVAC sales figures, updates on utility rate cases, prominent state policies, and a preview of the next quarter.
Reforming Residential Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs: Best Practices and Legislative Options
This report presents best practices for program administrators, utility regulators, policymakers, and advocates to make energy efficiency programs more simple, market-friendly, durable, and equitable.
A Blueprint for HOA Electrification
This case study from TECH Clean California lays out how the Heather Village homeowner's association leveraged grants and utility financing to switch from gas boilers to heat pumps to heat its residents' water.
Electricity Rates that Keep Bills Down after Electrification of Home Heating
New research from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) identifies commonsense electric utility rate reforms that will keep households from seeing increased bills when switching home heating from fossil fuel–fired systems to heat pumps in some of the coldest U.S. states.
Using Necessary Upgrades to Electrify a Senior Property
This case study illustrates how BRIDGE Housing and its partner Carbon Zero Buildings completed cost-effective in-unit and common space electrification upgrades and demonstrates how changes to utility allowances resulted in financial savings for both BRIDGE Housing and residents.
Electrification that works: Jobs for a clean and healthy future
The 2024 Workforce Report emphasizes the potential to generate over 1.1 million new jobs and would have an overall employment effect of over 3 million new jobs.
The Value of Prioritizing Equitable, Efficient Building Electrification
This study systematically analyzes the costs and benefits to LMI households and to society at large of efficient electrification, including both installation and operation of residential space heating, water heating, and other equipment.
State Electrification Policy Menu
The State Electrification Policy Menu is intended to be a foundational guide for state-based policy approaches that make building electrification easier and more affordable.
PLUG-IN HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER FIELD STUDY FINDINGS & MARKET COMMERCIALIZATION RECOMMENDATIONS
Emerging, plug-in 120-volt heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) are entering the market and proving themselves to be important new offerings from manufacturers aiming to address some of the key barriers.
Retrofitting Buildings to be Future-Fit: The journey to decarbonization
We estimate that across the world’s most developed cities at least 90% of office buildings are over 10 years old. Most of these assets would not meet today’s energy efficiency standards for new builds and very few have firm plans in place to prepare for even more stringent regulations on the horizon as governments pivot efforts to decarbonize existing buildings.