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Reports

Thermal Energy Networks: Considerations from Environmental Justice and Energy Democracy Perspectives

Common Spark Consulting and Transformative Strategies Consulting
Adds additional insight from environmental justice and energy democracy advocates regarding the potential and challenges for equitable thermal energy network implementation
Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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Thermal Energy Networks in the United States: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs

Common Spark Consulting and Transformative Strategies Consulting
Explores the potential benefits of TENs, potential challenges in installation and implementation, and recommendations for amplifying and maximizing community involvement and benefit
Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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Reports

Tackling the PJM Electricity Cost Crisis

Evergreen Collaborative
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
Electrification, Grid Planning, Jobs/Workforce
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Policy Briefs

Legal Levers to Promote Building Electrification

Public Health Law Center
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
Building Codes, Existing Buildings, Grid Planning, Neighborhood Scale, New Construction
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Reports

Tenants at the Center: An Equitable Path to Building Decarbonization

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
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.
Affordable Housing, Building Codes, Equity
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Case Studies

Case Study: West Union, Iowa

BDC
Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.
Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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Case Studies

Case Study: Ann Arbor, Michigan

BDC
Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.
Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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Case Studies

Case Study: Edmonton, Alberta

BDC
Part of our TENs ownership models case study series.
Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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BDC Policy Calls/ Resources

Momentum Q1 | 2025

BDC
A quarterly update on the building decarbonization movement
Building Codes, Electric Technologies, Future of Gas, Future of Heat, Heat Pumps, Neighborhood Scale, Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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BDC Policy Calls/ Resources

Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) Legislative Guidebook

BDC and Institute for Energy and the Environment
A step-by-step guide to help state lawmakers and advocates craft equitable, affordable thermal energy network (TEN) legislation
Financing and Incentives, Future of Gas, Gas Planning, Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
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Reports

Colorado’s Clean Energy Jobs Path

ILR Climate Jobs Institute
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
Workforce Development
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The Clean Building Compass is made possible with a generous grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the support of our partners at the Bay Area Regional Collaborative and those on the Compass Advisory Committee.

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