Resource Library

Enterprise Green Communities sets the standard across the U.S. for green affordable homes. The 2026 edition centers three themes – energy, health, and resilience.

The Climate Tech Map seeks to ignite bold, scalable breakthroughs and drive ambitious global investment in existing, emerging, and yet-to-be-discovered climate technologies.

The Maryland Clean Buildings Hub has launched the first version of its Building Decarbonization Incentive Library, which includes incentives Marylanders may be eligible to receive for investments that contribute to building decarbonization goals.

To help more Arizonans find out if they are eligible for the Efficiency Arizona program, the Governor’s Office of Resiliency launched a new resource, the Efficiency Arizona Eligibility Screening Tool.

This paper presents updated estimates of a standard measure of price responsiveness in the US residential electricity market—the price elasticity of demand for electricity (PEDE)—and explores how it varies across states.

Utilities and regulators have long used rates to drive energy efficiency. Today, emerging priorities often compete with other objectives, including aligning prices with electrification, optimizing grid use, and ensuring affordability.

The Climate Resilience Playbook is not a strict rulebook—it’s a guide full of ideas, tools, and examples from other Massachusetts communities who’ve tried different approaches and learned from them.

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.

In the 2025 legislative session, we tracked 130 bills and budget items promoting building decarbonization. This tracker is updated annually.

Welcome to BDC’s 4th annual building decarbonization legislative roundup.

Recommendations for state action are organized into four categories – equity and workforce, carbon reduction obligations, codes and standards, and utility planning and regulation – using a framework introduced in a 2024 policy brief, Decarbonizing Buildings: How States Can Set the Table for Success.

There is an overlooked solution that has the potential to provide sweeping benefits: investing in the household as energy infrastructure.

The Energy Tax Credits for Schools Hub provides up-to-date information and resources to help district leaders learn about these tax credits, understand recent changes, and make the most of this opportunity.

This policy brief offers an overview of the current LEA landscape in the U.S. and recommendations for reforming outdated policies that promote the growth of gas consumption and emissions.

The Green, Healthy Schools (GHS) initiative, championed by the Climate Works for All coalition, offers a comprehensive solution that provides a win for environmental justice and sustainability, and a path to creating good, green union jobs.

The findings highlight the urgency of addressing energy affordability through targeted policy action, community-driven solutions, and investment in energy infrastructure.

To ensure you have a direct path forward navigating these federal incentives, we’ve done the work, updating our free, public, interactive Clean Energy Tax Navigator with H.R. 1 changes.

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.

These FAQs are being issued to provide general information to taxpayers and tax professionals as expeditiously as possible.

This report discusses these and other decarbonization options for centrally heated multifamily buildings, analyzing the life-cycle cost of the different options and providing examples of installations using each of these options.

The report provides a landscape assessment of existing BPS compliance and ACPs offered across the nation using a common taxonomy, and identifies key challenges.

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.

The Buildings Decarbonization Coalition details developments in the second quarter of 2025, including the latest HVAC sales figures, updates on utility rate cases, prominent state policies, and a preview of the next quarter.