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September 2, 2024

Building Decarbonization

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California Moves to Ban Natural Gas-powered Heaters
California regulators approved a plan that sets a 2025 target date for enacting a ban on sales of new gas-powered space and water heaters.
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California PUC Proposes Aliso Canyon Endgame
The California PUC proposed a combination of non-gas generation and building electrification to help close the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility.
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Business Groups Try to Head off NJ Building Electrification Rules
A group of 24 New Jersey business and union interests lobby to halt a plan that would prevent the installation of most fossil-fueled heating in new buildings.
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University of California System Pursues Hydrogen Blending
The University of California in Los Angeles and San Diego are pursuing projects to demonstrate the effects of mixing up to 20% hydrogen with natural gas.
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NJ BPU Backs Utility Benchmarking for 30,000 Buildings
New Jersey regulators approved a new benchmarking program requiring 30,000 buildings to annually report their water, gas and electricity use.
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NJ Eyes Rules to Protect, Gather Advanced Metering Data
New Jersey is studying how to set data-gathering rules to ensure the implementation of advanced metering infrastructure helps ratepayers cut energy use.
Oregon Dept. of Energy
Oregon Looks to Accelerate GHG Reduction Goals
Oregon found it is on track to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goal for 2035 earlier than that date, so it moved the target to 2030.
NJ BPU Approves Report on Costs of Energy Master Plan
A study of ratepayer impact from New Jersey's Energy Master Plan concluded that clean energy-conscious residents could see a 16% cost reduction under the plan.
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Andersen to Manufacture Energy-generating Windows
Minn.-based Andersen Corp. and Calif. startup Ubiquitous Energy have signed an agreement to develop and manufacture windows that double as solar power modules.
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Baker Signs Bill to Boost Clean Energy in Mass.
After a few days of wavering, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a compromise climate and clean energy bill sent to his desk by the state legislature.

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