Clean Building Compass

Adds additional insight from environmental justice and energy democracy advocates regarding the potential and challenges for equitable thermal energy network implementation

Explores the potential benefits of TENs, potential challenges in installation and implementation, and recommendations for amplifying and maximizing community involvement and benefit

Focuses on PJM’s interconnection process and compares two scenarios: the status quo and a scenario where the interconnection queue is reformed, finds reduction in bills, adds additional clean energy deployment and create new jobs

Provides an overview of building decarbonization policies available at the state and local level with an eye towards understanding federal preemption considerations under the Energy and Policy Conservation Act, post the California Restaurant Association v. Berkeley decision

Reviews the tenant-landlord legal landscape in three U.S. cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York highlighting the difficulties tenants face within those housing markets, and how decarbonization policies designed without tenant protections could make difficulties worse. At the same time, the authors recognize building decarbonization policies can benefit tenants by lowering their energy bills and creating healthier homes.

Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.

Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.

Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.

A quarterly update on the building decarbonization movement

A step-by-step guide to help state lawmakers and advocates craft equitable, affordable thermal energy network (TEN) legislation

Presents a labor-centered vision to steer the long-term direction of state climate policies in a way that prioritizes union jobs creation, expands economic opportunities to Colorado’s marginalized communities, and invests in a just transition that benefits all Coloradans while maximizing emissions reductions