"Natural gas scene from 'CCS: a 2 degree solution' (film)" by Carbon Visuals is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Why were US utility prices so high in Q1 2026? Is it a recent phenonemon, or is it a result of long-established trends? You’d think that natural gas itself would be the cause of rising costs, right? You would’ve been correct years ago, but there’s a set of more recent … [continued]
Merino Energy is a new “climate hardware company” (I like that phrasing) based out of San Francisco that just came out of stealth mode this week. The company notes that it is “building a new category of professional-grade home heat pumps,” and it launched its first product, the Merino Mono, … [continued]
Chatgpt generated policy-focused landscape showing engineers, regulators, and household infrastructure
The Fife, Scotland, hydrogen trial is moving forward at Easter 2026, and that timing matters more than it might seem. Easter is a season associated with renewal, honesty, sacrifice, and the choice to leave behind what no longer serves the common good. Against that backdrop, SGN is advancing a project … [continued]
The foodservice industry is notoriously difficult to decarbonize, especially when it comes to water heating. From quick-service chains to grocery stores and fine dining, each subsector has its own challenges, from volatile draw profiles (how much water a site uses each day and when) to a lack of airflow or … [continued]
The UK Future Homes Program will require rooftop solar and heat pumps in new homes beginning in April of 2028.
This week, I attended New York Build Expo, co-located with Installer Expo in the Javits Center. There were far more professionals there than press, which meant that I was able to get into practical discussions quickly. While there were many interesting technologies, less focus was on showing off or attracting … [continued]
Chatgpt generated: Conceptual seawater air conditioning plant on the Honolulu waterfront supplying district cooling to nearby buildings.
The starting point for evaluating seawater air conditioning on Oʻahu is the fully electrified energy system for the island that has been developed through the earlier Sankey analysis. In that framework the island’s civilian energy system excludes overseas aviation fuel, maritime bunkering for ships crossing the Pacific, and military energy … [continued]
In early February I had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas to the AHR Expo. For those of you who have never heard of it, it’s a ginormous 50,000-person expo focused primarily on space and water heating systems, a Mecca of sorts for a heat pump dork like me. … [continued]
The US heat pump startup AtmosZero has enlisted the legacy boiler supplier R.F. MacDonald to help boot fossil fuels out of commercial and industrial steam systems.
ChatGPT generated: Comparison of useful energy cost multipliers in Germany showing hydrogen and RFNBO fuels as structural multiples of electrification for freight and heating
The German Bundesrat’s recent plea to Brussels to double green hydrogen-based fuel quotas is less a bid to accelerate decarbonization than a request to manufacture demand for an infrastructure program that never made economic sense and had weak demand signals from the start. The upper chamber’s proposal to increase mandated … [continued]
