For the nation’s buildings, successful implementation of the IRA is more critical than ever. This Blog is part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2023 Climate & Clean Energy Developments. As 2023 comes to a close, it’s a great time to reflect on the progress made to date on the Inflation … [continued]
A New Analysis Shows that Geothermal Heat Pumps Can Decarbonize Buildings and the Grid, While Reducing Grid Transmission Needs and Saving Energy
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been chronicling the idiotic battle over remote vs in-person work. The pandemic and lockdowns broke a lot of assumptions people had been making about work, because companies simply didn’t have any choice in many cases. If they wanted to stay alive, they had … [continued]
When it comes to EVs, it’s easy to think a lot about how efficient they are after the vehicle leaves the factory. That’s obviously very important, but a super clean vehicle that comes from a dirty and inefficient manufacturing process isn’t a great way to get started. Perhaps more importantly, … [continued]
In some ways, efficiency has been the main struggle in the automotive world for the last 40-50 years. There have been times where reliability and overall quality struggled (for example, the Malaise Era for U.S. automakers), but during the last several decades vehicles have generally been pretty decent. It’s not … [continued]
Funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and the Defense Production Act Will Boost U.S. Manufacturing, Grow the Clean Energy Workforce, and Lower Energy Costs for Families NEW ORLEANS, LA — As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a historic $169 million … [continued]
The race is on to push oil and gas HVAC systems out, and let new energy efficient cold-climate electric heat pumps in.
Connected, automated vehicle traveling through time-controlled, integrated traffic lights maximized energy efficiency Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers determined that a connected and automated vehicle, or CAV, traveling on a multilane highway with integrated traffic light timing control can maximize energy efficiency and achieve up to 27% savings. In a demonstration, … [continued]
Legacy forms of electrical generation are going to diminish radically in significance. Total energy requirements are going to halve. Renewable generation will dominate. Grids will become even more important. Storage will be everywhere.
Researchers set out to achieve passive cooling inside naturally conditioned buildings in hot, arid climates
