How To Prepare Your Home For Summer Heat Waves
From covering windows and planting trees, to upgrading your air conditioning system—PNNL scientists offer tips to keep your home cool in extreme heat.
Buildings
Colorado Makes Buildings More Livable, Less Polluting
With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.
Heat Pump Dryers Come to Town
Heat pumps are one of the key technologies that will save the planet from the unfolding climate crisis. In addition to heating our water and heating and cooling our homes, in their latest incarnation, they can now also dry our clothes. Yes, heat pump dryers are an exciting, mostly uncharted, … [continued]
Cambridge Has A Plan To Go Electric — It Can Be A Model For Your…
While in theory it’s best to go electric in our homes, the practical transition can be a bit overwhelming. Where do you start? What’s needed? Who do you call?
5 Lessons for Industrial Project Finance from H2 Green Steel
A project finance template is taking shape in Swedish steelmaking that could scale to clean industrial hubs around the world.
Chicago Puts $15 Million Into Induction Stove & Heat Pump Retrofits
The City of Chicago plans to invest $15 million to make low and moderate income apartments more energy efficient.
How to Upgrade & Electrify Millions of US Homes & Buildings
The White House and Department of Energy (DOE) recently laid the foundation for two monumental home energy upgrade initiatives: the Home Efficiency Rebates program, which offers up to $8,000 to households, and the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates program, which provides up to $14,000. These rebate programs — made possible … [continued]
Pathways to Equity & Savings for Low-Income Households
How tax incentives and updated standards are changing home construction.
Community Solar: Panels Without a Roof
Powering our lives with clean energy is essential to decarbonize and eliminate the CO2 emissions that are changing the climate before our eyes. Fortunately, clean energy is now more accessible than ever with multiple options for every household including the exciting, new kid on the block: community solar. While grid-supplied … [continued]
Cooling Commercial Buildings 6× More Energy-Intensive In Hot Climates Than Cold
The energy intensity for cooling commercial buildings in the United States depends on the climate the building is located in. Energy intensity in buildings is the energy consumed per square foot of floorspace. U.S. commercial buildings in hot or very hot climates, which are primarily in the southernmost parts of … [continued]
