Cities across the country report the need for more skilled professionals to complete residential clean energy upgrades. This lack of qualified professionals hinders completion of home energy upgrad…
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Cities across the country report the need for more skilled professionals to complete residential clean energy upgrades. This lack of qualified professionals hinders completion of home energy upgrades—upgrades that are critical to reducing buildings’ energy consumption and carbon emissions.
This case study profiles a home energy retrofit training program in Philadelphia that prepares participants to enter the clean energy workforce as retrofit technicians, solar electricians, energy inspectors, welders, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technicians.
Elements of this program can be replicated to scale up the equitable development of a workforce ready to perform energy upgrades in owner-occupied housing.
The commonwealth spends almost $11 billion a year buying energy from out of state. Mass Save lowers bills and keeps money at home.
Utility energy efficiency programs have increased investment in low-income households, but significant gaps remain. This report examines spending and savings trends across 48 major U.S. utilities, identifies barriers to expanding low-income programs and highlights policies and program strategies that can improve energy affordability and equitable access to efficiency upgrades.
The United States faces interlocking energy challenges: rising home energy bills and gasoline prices; new demand for electricity from data centers and other loads; high greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Now, a new era of energy efficiency progress in our buildings, transportation, and industry is needed to meet this moment. This wide-ranging study finds a massive opportunity.
The BUILD America 250 Act, advanced by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, would eliminate or weaken many programs that help lower transportation …
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