MEI's annual economic development meeting examined the role utilities played in two economic development projects in the service areas of 2 Missouri utilities.

New Jersey legislators backed a bill Monday that would prevent state agencies from requiring buildings to use electric heating.

New York officials tweaked the state’s draft scoping plan on climate action to include cost/benefit and consumer impacts analyses as soon as possible.

Distributed energy resources, electrification and just wholesale compensation for both dominated two panels during the virtual North America Smart Energy Week.

The Department of Energy's LEAP program will provide technical assistance to help environmental justice, low-income and coalfield communities develop clean energy projects.

A pilot project in Virginia found that electrification retrofits on low- and moderate-income homes cut energy consumption but not always costs and carbon emissions.

Mass. regulators have proposed a mechanism for tying quantifiable equity goals and GHG emission reductions to state energy efficiency program funding.

Decarbonizing the U.S. grid will also mean overcoming communities’ aesthetic objections to large projects, Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith told SEPA.

Mass. AG Maura Healey’s office organized a panel of policy experts to help regulators think about how they will manage a declining fossil fuel system.

Even as the electricity sector decarbonizes and appliance efficiency improves, reducing GHG emissions from buildings will prove increasingly difficult.