Buildings
Rethinking Air Conditioning for a Hotter, More Humid World
How we can design ACs to deliver reliable comfort, lower energy use, and reduced strain on power systems.
Lower Bills, Better Grids: Heat Pump Benefits for Electric Resistance-Heated Homes
Quantifying affordability, peak demand, and carbon pollution benefits of upgrading millions of electric resistance homes to heat pumps and the policies to help make it happen.
Five Policies to Lower Heating Bills and Accelerate Heat Pump Adoption in Illinois
Targeted incentives, zero-interest financing, smart rate design, and building code updates can reduce household energy costs while advancing Illinois’ clean energy goals.
Five Takeaways from the First Large-Scale Pilot of the RESNET/ICC 1550 Embodied Carbon Standard
100 Massachusetts homes reveal how embodied carbon assessments can scale in the homebuilding sector.
Case Studies in Cost-Effective Low Embodied Carbon Buildings
These case studies reveal how we can reduce embodied carbon in buildings without raising costs
