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…
By Kelly O'Connell |
Who doesn't like winning a prize? Recently, 45 communities across the country were the lucky winners of a prize through the Buildings UP program by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The Buildings Upgrade Prize (Buildings UP), through DOE’s Building Technologies Office (BTO), supports the adoption of community-based retrofit programs through cash prizes. The program is administered by the…
By Kelly O'Connell |
In the last few days of 2023, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) published the state’s Climate Pollution Reduction Plan, the product of months of collaboration and public input.The plan builds on the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60 percent from 2006 levels by 2031 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, by proposing over…