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January 12, 2025

Building Decarbonization

Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing
Vermont Climate Council Puts Clean Heat Standard on the Table
The Vermont Climate Council heard recommendations on how to reduce emissions for the electricity, thermal and transportation sectors.
PSEG
NJ Enviros Squeeze Governor on GHG Goals
Groups say Murphy talks aggressively on climate change but is moving too slowly to cut GHG, while the DEP continues to approve natural gas projects.
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Maryland Consumers May Pay High Heating Costs to Cut Building Emissions
Maryland is looking at challenges of different pathways to building decarbonization, while Montgomery County explores solutions in energy performance standards.
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NARUC Panel: EE Needs New Metrics to Help Reach Net-zero Goals
State regulators must change their thinking about the value of energy efficiency to meet net-zero goals, speakers told the NARUC Summer Policy Summit.
Sunrise Maine
Solving for Equity in the Rates and Climate Policy Equation
Given Maine's ambitious climate policies, one state regulator sees a need to reconsider how the costs of those policies are allocated to ratepayers.
DOE
DOE: Building Codes Key to Net-zero Economy
Updating building codes is “one of the easiest things we can do" to reduce emissions, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at a DOE conference.
City of New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell
$536M in Pandemic Aid Tagged for Climate, Energy Across New England
Vermont and Maine will put $136 million in federal aid into climate and energy initiatives; Massachusetts is looking to spend $400 million on those sectors.
TeMix
Talking to Alexa: Transactive Energy Markets are Coming
Officials at a SEPA webinar discussed a transactive market platform pilot in California that proactively helps shift load and save customers money.
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Massachusetts Sets 1st Emission-reduction Goal for Efficiency Program
The current draft energy efficiency plan for Massachusetts does not envision meeting a new program-specific emission-reduction goal set by the state.
Central Main Power
Overheard at 3rd Annual EBC New England Energy Leadership Conference
Regional energy policy leaders presented their plans and priorities at the Environmental Business Council of New England Energy Leadership Conference.

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