Eric Mackres
7 years ago | 3 IMPRESSIONS
4 Surprising Ways Energy-Efficient Buildings Benefit Cities
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Urbanization presents major challenges: congestion, sprawl, inefficiency, health hazards and high cost of living, just to name a few. ...
buildings
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Stefen Samarripas
7 years ago | 20 IMPRESSIONS
Affordable housing is disappearing; energy efficiency and solar energy can help reverse that trend
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Many low-income individuals and families are finding it increasingly difficult to rent apartments (see here and here), but energy efficiency and solar energy can help save affordable multifamily housing. ...
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William Baker
7 years ago | 41 IMPRESSIONS
Nearly half a million of our clients can’t afford to heat their homes
Everyday we see people struggling to heat their homes. In 2017, 400,000 of our clients said they weren’t able to keep their home warm enough. A cold home puts your health at risk. ...
energy poverty
heating
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Jeremy Hodges
7 years ago | 6 IMPRESSIONS
Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
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Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model. ...
emobility
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Robert Walton
7 years ago | 19 IMPRESSIONS
New York raises efficiency targets, will spend $36M for job training
Dive Brief: Calling it the "most cost-effective" energy strategy on the table, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) Friday announced a significant expansion of the state's efficiency goals along with $36.5 million in clean energy job training investments. ...
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American Council
7 years ago | 23 IMPRESSIONS
Buying an Efficient Home is About to Get Easier in Massachusetts
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Home buyers in Massachusetts may soon be able to better gauge the energy efficiency, or inefficiency, of their potential future homes. Last Tuesday, Governor Charlie Baker introduced legislation that would establish energy performance ratings and disclosure requirements for homes across the state. ...
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Jadwiga Emilewicz
7 years ago | 25 IMPRESSIONS
Clean air for everyone – Poland challenges smog
Environmental protection and the fight for clean air are global challenges in today’s world. Poland’s entrepreneurship and technology minister explains how his country is doing its bit to overcome air quality challenges. Jadwiga Emilewicz is Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology. ...
air pollution
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poland
Eliot Whittington
7 years ago | 3 IMPRESSIONS
Buildings renovation: The low hanging fruit for emissions savings
With real estate responsible for over a third of the EU’s CO2 emissions, legislating to improve energy savings in the building stock is a low hanging fruit that our governments would be mad not to pick, argues Eliot Whittington. ...
buildings
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renovation
europa.eu
7 years ago | 4 IMPRESSIONS
Commission welcomes final vote on energy performance of buildings
New rules will make buildings smarter and more energy efficient, saving money and creating jobs in the renovation and construction sector. The European Parliament gave today its final approval on the revised Energy Performance of Buildings directive. ...
buildings
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Stephen Lacey
7 years ago | 22 IMPRESSIONS
Imagining Two Futures for Energy Blockchain
Blockchain is largely untested compared to its potential. We know it’s likely transformative — we just don’t know exactly how. There are hundreds of potential applications in the electricity business. ...
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www.heatroadmap.eu
7 years ago | 3 IMPRESSIONS
Heat Roadmap Europe
The developed profiles provide a detailed picture of today's heating and cooling energy use in the industrial, residential and service sectors. They help to answer questions about how heating and cooling is used, as well as where it already is, and is not (yet) relevant. ...
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Regulatory Assistance Project
7 years ago | 5 IMPRESSIONS
When Utility Gas Affiliates Play by Monopoly Rules, Consumers Are Likely to Lose
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Can monopolies with market power send business to other regulated monopolies? Can one monopoly create a “need” for which ratepayers will be charged by another related monopoly? As it stands right now, the answer to both these questions is yes. ...
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www.instagram.com
7 years ago | 20 IMPRESSIONS
7 Likes, 1 Comments - California Energy Commission (@calenergy) on Instagram: “In 2015, the California Energy Commission adopted water efficiency standards requiring toilets,…”
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water
Jeffrey Rissman
7 years ago | 25 IMPRESSIONS
Tackling climate change in Poland saves emissions : and money
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The Sośnica coal mine in Gliwice began operations in 1917. Polish mines suffer from years of under-investment and struggle to achieve profitability ...
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poland
www.mass.gov
7 years ago | 3 IMPRESSIONS
Press Release Baker-Polito Administration Files Legislation to Improve Residents’ Access to Home Energy Information
BOSTON — Building on the Baker-Polito Administration’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering energy costs, Governor Charlie Baker today filed legislation to ensure homeowners and prospective homebuyers have access to information about the anticipated energy efficiency cha ...
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