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The Potential for Alternative Fuels in Building Decarbonization
ACEEE’s study analyzed costs and emissions for decarbonizing buildings through electrification and alternative fuels for combustion, like biomethane from landfills or livestock manure or synthetic gases made from hydrogen and other chemical compounds.
Building with Biomass: A New American Harvest
This report sheds new light on a powerful and cross-cutting solution: manufacturing building products from upcycled biomass that’s already abundant across the United States.
2025 State Policy Watchlist
Our 2025 State Policy Watchlist offers a concise breakdown of what to watch and why it matters for public affairs professionals navigating these evolving challenges.
ACEEE Annual Report 2024
From securing federal appliance efficiency standards that will save households nearly $1 trillion to helping localities build transportation systems that meet community needs, ACEEE initiatives are helping tackle today’s energy challenges
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.
Testing HPWH in Manufactured Housing
AESC will measure whether the HPWHs' cool exhaust air can lower existing air conditioning costs and improve resident comfort and will quantify the energy, cost, and GHG impacts of the retrofits.
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.
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.
The Global Campaign Against Building Electrification
A new report by InfluenceMap shows how the oil & gas and utilities industries are leveraging a common fossil fuel playbook to prolong the use of fossil gas in buildings globally
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).
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.
Inclusive Workforce Development Strategies for Building Electrification
Rooted in real world examples, Inclusive Workforce Development Strategies for Building Electrification provides policymakers with a comprehensive guide to develop inclusive workforce strategies for building electrification.