Clean Building Compass

A quarterly update on the building decarbonization movement

Maryland’s forthcoming Zero‑Emission Heating Equipment Standard (ZEHES) will accelerate demand for high‑performance heat pumps—and the contractors who install them with confidence. This webinar provides HVAC professionals with the technical know‑how and business insights needed to thrive as the state moves to zero-emission heating and cooling.

Roadmap for streamlining and standardizing clean heating installations in California focusing primarily on permitting and how to simplify the process

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.