Neighborhood-scale building decarbonization transitions street segments, neighborhoods, and entire communities to clean energy infrastructure, with the goal of managing and scaling the transition off of methane (“natural”) gas.
To be eligible for this map, a project must:
- Include multiple buildings. It can be a campus, a street segment, a complex, or a business district.
- Use electric appliances for space heating and cooling. (Bonus if the buildings also have fully-electrified kitchens and heat pump water heaters!)
- Heats and/or cools with non-emitting renewable sources of energy (for example, geothermal or sources of anthropogenic waste heat).
- If the project is not yet operational, it must be in a design, engineering, or construction phase, or have filed with the state’s regulatory commission. (At this stage, it does not include feasibility studies).
Not included: It does not include all-electric neighborhoods that did not transition away from fossil fuels, or that are within communities with zero-emissions building standards. To learn where local and state governments are encouraging and requiring all-electric buildings, please visit our Zero Emissions Building Ordinance Tracker!
Neighborhood-scale building decarbonization transitions street segments, neighborhoods, and entire communities to clean energy infrastructure, with the goal of managing and scaling the transition off of methane (“natural”) gas.
To be eligible for this map, a project must:
- Include multiple buildings. It can be a campus, a street segment, a complex, or a business district.
- Use electric appliances for space heating and cooling. (Bonus if the buildings also have fully-electrified kitchens and heat pump water heaters!)
- Heats and/or cools with non-emitting renewable sources of energy (for example, geothermal or sources of anthropogenic waste heat).
- If the project is not yet operational, it must be in a design, engineering, or construction phase, or have filed with the state’s regulatory commission. (At this stage, it does not include feasibility studies).
Not included: It does not include all-electric neighborhoods that did not transition away from fossil fuels, or that are within communities with zero-emissions building standards. To learn where local and state governments are encouraging and requiring all-electric buildings, please visit our Zero Emissions Building Ordinance Tracker!