EV charging
Newsletter: Forget La Croix, this is the employee perk of the future
Want your employees to drive your corporate electric vehicles? Give them a free home EV charger.
By Julian Spector .
Energy efficiency
Carbon-free buildings
Major Ohio cities aim to cut building emissions with voluntary program
A $10M Inflation Reduction Act grant will help Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton collaborate on new building performance standards.
By Kathiann Kowalski .
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Opinion
Pacific Northwest heat wave makes the case for incentivizing heat pumps
Electric heat pumps can act as air conditioners — and move home heating systems away from natural gas.By Justin Guay, Nate Adams .
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Energy efficiency
The secret of home energy efficiency? Don’t talk about home energy efficiency
Residential retrofit startups agree: Energy savings must pay for quality-of-life improvements to grow business and bring in lower-cost capital.By Jeff St. John .
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Climate crisis
Inside the industry-enviro partnership that scored a big climate win on HFCs
The US is now poised to curb use of super-climate-warming refrigerants, one of this century's most significant climate mitigation efforts.By Jay Stein .
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Opinion
Building retrofits can duplicate the success of wind and solar power
Smart government policies have spurred rapid acceleration in renewable energy. They can do the same for building efficiency upgrades.By Richard Roberts .
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Electrification
The case for upfront incentives to electrify everything in US homes
A report from Rewiring America and the Center for American Progress asks policymakers to make the replacement of electric appliances as cheap and easy as possible.By Jeff St. John .
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Electrification
Chart of the day: Fuel cell industry profits
The hydrogen funding wave and the enormous potential of the hydrogen economy boosted the stock price of public fuel cell companies in 2020 — but not their profits.By Eric Wesoff .
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Policy & regulation
Green 'liberty' bonds: The American way to win the war on climate change?
Taking a lesson from the World War II financing playbook to combat the climate crisis.By Jean Haggerty .
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Climate crisis
The policy pathways to cut US carbon emissions in half by 2030
Energy Innovation's models show that technologies and policies can cost-effectively meet President Biden’s carbon-cutting commitments. The politics are another matter.By Jeff St. John .
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Energy efficiency
How to reduce winter grid peaks from behind the meter
Weatherization, heat pumps and flexible loads could prevent Texas-style disasters, cutting peaker-plant and in-home carbon emissions to boot.By Jeff St. John .
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