In a game-changing win for decarbonization, the Washington State Building Code Council voted to require heat pumps in new residential home construction.

President Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, 2022. Here is a roundup of our favorite resources that have helped us understand the IRA’s role in accelerating the clean energy transition.

This project aimed to: (1) understand the barriers to decarbonizing buildings for the state’s rural and Tribal low-income, energy-burdened households, and (2) determine whether decarbonization strategies and clean energy development could address energy inequities in these communities.

On September 8, 2022, the Clean Energy Transition Institute released Community-Defined Decarbonization: Reflecting Rural and Tribal Desires for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition in Washington.

President’s Biden’s recent announcement to invoke the Defense Production Act could expand domestic manufacturing of heat pumps. This blog summarizes the current policy landscape related to heat pumps in the U.S.

Heat pumps are a crucial strategy for decreasing emissions from the building sector. This post summarizes the major factors concerning this promising piece of low-carbon infrastructure and the role it could play in decarbonizing buildings.

We dug into the underlying dataset of two map visualizations from the Atlas: 1) Northwest Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Large Emitting Facilities, by Gas and 2) by Industrial Process.

The first quarter of 2022 has flown by with the Clean Energy Transition Institute team hard at work on scaling building decarbonization; analyzing strategies for decarbonizing industrial emissions

A selection of some of the best podcasts and webinars on the latest technical and economic developments in decarbonization that the CETI team engaged with during the first three months of 2022.

After more than a decade of public investment in clean energy in the United States, a wealth of studies makes clear that funding clean energy drives broad economic development and job creation.

When the Washington State Legislature passed the Climate Pollution Limits bill in 2020, it etched into law aggressive economy-wide carbon emissions limits to achieve by 2050. For the building sector, this translates into a 96% emission decrease below 2020 levels in three decades.

Eileen and Jeremy Hargreaves of Evolved Energy Research presented on state and regional pathways to carbon neutrality at the opening plenary of the Intermountain West Energy Sustainability & Transitions (I-WEST) Workshop, hosted by Montana State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy.