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Tracking Two Decades of Utility Spending: EIA Insights, Recent Trends, and Ratepayer Impacts
Utilities across the United States spent an estimated $320 billion on electricity in 2023, a 12 percent increase from $287 billion in 2003 (in real 2023 dollars), according to data compiled by the U.S. [...]
Atlas Buildings Hub in 2024
This year, Atlas Buildings Hub published 21 original stories in our bi-weekly digests. Subject matter ranged from building codes to net metering to the electrification workforce. Here, we highlight our five post popular digests [...]
Public Utility Commission elections flew under the radar in 2024
Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), Public Service Commissions (PSCs), Consolidated Commission, or Corporate Commissions — no matter what you call them, each state (and Guam) has a public commission governing how utilities in the state [...]
New technologies dispatch novel decarbonization methods
Note: This digest is not intended to be an exhaustive list of new building decarbonization solutions. These are illustrative examples of some exciting new solutions in the market. Atlas Buildings Hub is not sponsored [...]
Domestic heat pump manufacturing’s $800 million investment boom
The past couple of years have seen an increase in government-supported initiatives to increase heat pump installations nationwide. In September 2023, a coalition of 25 state governors announced their intention to deploy 20 million [...]
Low embodied carbon building materials decarbonize structures from their foundations
The building decarbonization world overlaps with the industrial decarbonization universe when it comes to decarbonizing building materials. According to a September 2023 report published by RMI and the U.S. Green Building Council, embodied carbon [...]