Elizabeth Traynor conducts research on buildings decarbonization. She joined ACEEE in 2024.
Prior to joining ACEEE, Elizabeth worked as a consultant at E3, focusing on economywide decarbonization and future of natural gas studies.
Elizabeth holds a master of public administration in environmental science and policy from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts in physics from the University of Oxford.
Large multifamily buildings with central heating systems that burn fossil fuels are among the hardest to decarbonize, but new systems such as window-mounted heat pumps, central air-to-water heat pu…
While electrification and biomethane can both reduce emissions from the 8% of building fuel demand that is hardest to decarbonize, electrification could be si…
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