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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.
Decarbonizing Tall Buildings with a New York State of Mind
New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) mandates 100 percent zero-emissions electricity by 2040 and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2050. That means that billions of square feet of New York buildings have 28 years to wean off the fossil fuel combustion and fossil-fueled steam that heat the majority of the building stock today. For many buildings, that translates to roughly one asset replacement cycle, and buildings that simply replace today’s fossil fuel equipment with newer versions of the same will not be in compliance with Climate Act mandates before the equipment reaches the end of its lifetime. [...]