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Heat Pumps Can Lower Energy Bills for Californians Today
Bill savings from heat pumps for heating and hot water are largely due to cooling savings and beneficial electric rates.
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Colorado Is Poised to Adopt a Nation-Leading Building Decarbonization Standard
A new model building code being considered in Colorado would lower energy bills, reduce pollution, and a ensure a more resilient grid.
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Building with Biomass: A New American Harvest
How manufacturing building products from domestically sourced upcycled biomass can create more jobs and affordable healthy housing…
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Reforming Residential Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs: Best Practices and Legislative Options
Best practices for creating energy efficiency programs that are simple, durable, equitable, and tailored to the local market, with a focus on heat pumps.
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Reforming Energy Efficiency Programs to Increase Heat Pump Adoption
Best practices for creating energy efficiency programs that are simple, durable, equitable, and tailored to the local market, with a focus on heat pumps.
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Impact Accounting Methodology for Building Construction
RMI and Microsoft’s Practical Accounting Methodology for Embodied Carbon Reductions in Construction…
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Clean Energy 101: Solid-State Cooling
Why revolutionary technologies are key to solving the cooling challenge.
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Paying for Clean Building Materials with C-PACE
Updating C-PACE financing rules could unlock billions of dollars of private sector investment in low-embodied-carbon American-made building materials.
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Heat Pumps Reduce Smog in Southern California. Available Incentives Mean They Can Also Cost Less Than Gas Equipment.
Southern California residents can save money by switching to a heat pump – even without current federal incentives.
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Advance Market Commitment Policy Brief
How advance market commitments can remake public purchasing for near-zero or zero-emissions concrete.
