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Rethinking Air Conditioning for a Hotter, More Humid World
How we can design ACs to deliver reliable comfort, lower energy use, and reduced strain on power systems.
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Lower Bills, Better Grids: Heat Pump Benefits for Electric Resistance-Heated Homes
Quantifying affordability, peak demand, and carbon pollution benefits of upgrading millions of electric resistance homes to heat pumps and the policies to help make it happen.
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Five Policies to Lower Heating Bills and Accelerate Heat Pump Adoption in Illinois
Targeted incentives, zero-interest financing, smart rate design, and building code updates can reduce household energy costs while advancing Illinois’ clean energy goals.
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Five Takeaways from the First Large-Scale Pilot of the RESNET/ICC 1550 Embodied Carbon Standard
100 Massachusetts homes reveal how embodied carbon assessments can scale in the homebuilding sector.
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Case Studies in Cost-Effective Low Embodied Carbon Buildings
These case studies reveal how we can reduce embodied carbon in buildings without raising costs…
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Tracking the Heat Pump & Water Heater Market in the United States
This data hub spotlights publicly available national HVAC and water heating shipment data from the Air Conditioning, Heating, & Refrigeration Institute (AHRI)…
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C-PACE Embodied Carbon Policy Primer
Harmonized, flexible, data-backed pathways for including embodied carbon in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing programs.
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Strategic Decarbonization Planning: Turning Vision into Value in Commercial Real Estate
Replicable solutions to help real estate investors increase asset value and accelerate sustainability.
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From Coal to Carbon Neutral: Catawba College Paves the Way
How a small liberal arts college in North Carolina is investing in clean energy, offering a blueprint for other institutions to follow.
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How Cooling Progress Heated Up in 2025
Download the PDF A Summer That Tested Our Limits The summer of 2025 proved to be another hot and humid one. From Delhi to Osaka to Washington D.C., the world…
