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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.
Save on Better Appliances
Most of these upgrades require completed installations by December 31, 2025, so do your future tax-filing self a favor and make a plan today. We can help get you started.
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.
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.
Thermal Energy Networks Legislative Guidebook
This resource from the Building Decarbonization Coalition examines enabling legislation for thermal energy networks across eight states and derives lessons for other states considering these policies.
2025 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
The top finishers in the 2025 scorecard are California, Massachusetts, and New York, with Maryland and Vermont tied for fourth place. Colorado, Louisiana, and New Jersey are among the most improved states since the last scorecard.
The small but mighty federal tax credit that supports 240,000 jobs nationwide
When it comes to delivering savings to Americans while bolstering domestic jobs, the federal Energy Efficient Home Improvement Tax Credit (also known as the 25C tax credit) punches well above its weight.
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.
NEEP’s 2024 Regional Roundup
Welcome to NEEP’s 2024 Regional Roundup, which provides a snapshot of state policies and progress toward greater energy efficiency in each of the NEEP region’s 12 states and Washington, D.C.
Energy Efficiency Jobs in America 2024
This report serves as a baseline by which to measure future energy efficiency job growth enabled by critical large-scale investments such as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).