Another middle-aged white guy is offering a pragmatic climate reset, me. It seems to be the season for it. Bill Gates has pivoted from “zero carbon at all costs” to “improve human welfare first.” Tony Blair has decided that hard climate targets are too idealistic and that a more rational … [continued]
The New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) and The Green Launchpad recently announced the NYC Energy Efficiency Workforce Coalition. Workforce development is critically important for supporting clean energy and energy efficiency jobs. Even though at the moment, the social media sphere and news appear to be nearly dominated … [continued]
This is something I never do. I am writing about a topic I know next to nothing about. But the world of 2050 is 25 years in the future and the next 25 years are expected to be very transformative. It is impossible to know anything with something approaching certainty … [continued]
I recently sat down with Richard Halsall, CEO and Founder of Exhale Fans, for another episode of CleanTech Talk. I’ve been doing CleanTech Talk for more than 10 years, with more than 1.1 million listens on our 359 episodes on SoundCloud alone thanks to the hundreds of super interesting people … [continued]
Here at the nonprofit-led Advanced Water Heating Initiative, we are heat pump water heater dorks. Our favorite day of the year is Heat Pump Water Heater Day — which this year falls on October 23. That whole day and really the entire week, we focus our attention and energy on … [continued]
An increasing share of U.S. households are using electricity for heating, although natural gas remains the most common heating fuel. In 2024, 42% of U.S. households reported that electricity was their main space heating fuel, according to annual estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Natural gas was the … [continued]
Some interesting data crossed our desk this week out of California. The Tech Clean California program, which provides heat pump and heat pump water heater incentives in California, reported in an earlier meeting this year some significant savings for the 120V plug-in heat pump water heater (HPWH). Their data confirmed … [continued]
The global aluminum industry is decarbonizing, with an assist from renewable energy and new energy management software.
Cooling in the Persian Gulf is one of the hardest energy challenges anywhere on the planet. Air conditioning is not a luxury in the United Arab Emirates but a necessity, and it consumes as much as 70% of the country’s electricity. That reality has made Masdar City, the experimental urban … [continued]
For those of us thinking about replacing our aging, polluting water heaters with money-saving, planet-protecting heat pumps, now is the time to do it. Tax credits of up to $2,000 for a heat pump water heater (HPWH) are being phased out after this year thanks to the Republican legislation that … [continued]
