This BPA report highlights the culmination of research into the opportunities, needs, and innovative strategies to upgrade homes across the country with a review of how last year’s infrastructure law applies to those opportunities to improve the lives of American families while delivering on...
Building a Sustainable Residential Infrastructure.Report - Building Performance Assoc - 8.4.22 (1).pdf
Despite the urgent need to decarbonize, most utility energy efficiency programs are not designed, operated, or evaluated with decarbonization as a leading goal. This report, which builds upon ACEEE’s previously published The Need for Climate-Forward Efficiency, introduces a roadmap of 31...
ACEEE- A Roadmap for Climate-Forward Efficiency.pdf
States are adopting increasingly ambitious clean electricity standards and/or greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, driven by scientific consensus that global emissions must be drastically reduced in the next decade and beyond to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. A clean...
ACEEE- Meeting State Climate Goals.pdf
by Macie Melendez Recently, the Indoor Environment and Residential Building Systems Groups at Berkeley Lab completed a study, titled “Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications” that examined the use of zoned ventilation systems using a coupled CONTAM...
The 2021 Clean Jobs Midwest report is now available online. The clean energy industry is a major employer in the Midwest, employing over 677,000 workers. Like most of the economy, clean energy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn in 2020 but the...
This second edition of the ACEEE Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard assesses the 52 largest US electric utilities across a range of energy efficiency metrics. The metrics fall into three categories critical to utility-sector efficiency: (1) energy efficiency program performance, (2) program...
The ACEEE 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard analyzes the efforts of 100 major U.S. cities to make buildings and transportation more energy efficient and scale up the use of renewable energy. It provides the most comprehensive national measuring stick for climate progress and a roadmap for...