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Energy Code Development Begins: Commercial Proposals
This article is the second of a two-part series. To read about residential code proposals, click here. With millions of commercial and apartment buildings in the United States, an improved…
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Energy Code Development Begins: Focus on Residential
This is part one of a two-part series. Code officials, builders, energy efficiency advocates, and others weighed in last month on proposals to update the next model building energy code–a…
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Energy Efficiency Incentives Need Updating
A broad coalition representing millions of Americans earlier this month urged Congress to modernize and extend expired energy efficiency tax incentives, touting the enormous, long-term benefits for both the industry…
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Proposal to Cut Efficiency Budgets Makes No Sense
It’s not Groundhog Day, but it sure feels like it: the Trump administration rolled out its detailed Fiscal Year 2020 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and once again, it…
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Manufactured Homes Could Save Big. Why Haven’t They?
There may be some major changes afoot for the energy efficiency standards covering manufactured homes, which house 20 million Americans, but it’s unclear whether they will actually save residents energy…
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Appliance Standards: A Powerful Job Engine
Federal energy efficiency standards for appliances, electronics, and other equipment are known to save energy, cut utility bills, and reduce harmful pollution. But something that isn’t widely known is that…
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States Step Up for Progress on Efficiency Standards
In the face of threatened rollbacks and inaction on national appliance energy efficiency standards by the Trump administration, the states are stepping up to protect their citizens and climate. Driven…
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Efficiency Standards: A Few Steps Forward, A Few Steps Back
First, some good news: After a lengthy and illegal delay, the Trump Administration finally announced that new bipartisan energy efficiency standards for ceiling fans, which will save consumers up to…
