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The state of federal buildings funding
Since the inauguration of the Trump Administration, the status of several kinds of funding has been thrown into question. Amid conflicting reports of a federal funding freeze of a wide variety of programs and [...]
How do we measure the impacts of buildings decarbonization policies?
According to the Energy Information Administration’s 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, Midwestern households are less electrified than those in other regions. 12 percent of homes in the Midwest are all-electric, compared to 25 percent [...]
Two Years Later, the IRA Pumps Money into Buildings
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed in August 2022, provided nearly $90 billion to 27 programs for residential, commercial, and public building decarbonization and electrification. Two years later, the federal government is getting the [...]
Examining home energy price trends
This is the first in a two-part Data Story series on how we use and pay for the energy in our homes. Over the last few years, rising energy bills have been a hot [...]
A look at AHRI data from the past decade
The residential and commercial building landscape features a diversity of space heating, cooling, and water heating equipment. These technologies vary in terms of the fuels they draw on and their efficiency, with electric heat [...]
Education’s electrification: Progress on the decarbonization of K-12 schools
A recent report by Healthy Buildings, a partnership between For Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that governmental investment in public schools for maintaining building quality and ensuring environmental [...]
Electrifying the Midwest
As the most gas- and propane-dependent region in the country, the Midwest is a national laggard when it comes to building electrification and heat pump adoption. However, new developments in both local and state [...]
Residential U.S. Heat Pump Market Update: Trends and Developments
To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 across the U.S. economy, a robust effort must be undertaken to decarbonize the buildings sector. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, direct emissions generated from residential and [...]