By Erin Cosgrove |
In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced winners of the Climate Pollution Reduction (CPRG) implementation grants, which will award $4.3 billion to states, metropolitan areas, and tribal governments across the country. The NEEP region had six selected applications, totaling about $1.5 billion. Four of the awards were coalition-based, harnessing the power of regional…
By Hunza Irfan |
Nationwide, electricity prices have risen in recent years. From 2022 to 2023, residential electricity prices rose 6.2 percent. When energy costs increase, more households face high or severe energy burden leading to economic energy insecurity – the inability to adequately meet basic household energy costs – and face difficult choices like trading off costs for heating or eating. Energy burden –…
By Kelly O'Connell |
This post was co-authored with Stefen Samarripas, Senior Local Policy Manager, at ACEEE.New England features a unique and diverse housing stock, with many types of buildings from smaller rowhouses to tall multifamily buildings. With this unique building stock comes unique challenges. Often, building decarbonization initiatives are targeted towards one sector, such as single-family residences that…
