We are thrilled to announce that Commissioner Andrew McAllister will be a keynote speaker at our 2019 Getting to Zero Forum. Commissioner McAllister was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in May 2012 and...

The DLC’s Networked Lighting Control System Technical Requirements V4.0 took effect in June, with a 12-month grace period for products qualified under the V3.0 requirements. It reflects two rounds of stakeholder comments, as well as robust discussion at the DLC’s...

This blog was originally posted on Energy News Network on May 17, 2019. Written by Lisa Prevost.  The last time Hugh Fisher built an all-electric house was in the 1970s, when he was among a very few homebuilders in Rhode...

The market for residential zero energy (ZE) buildings continues to show growth across the United States and Canada, according to the new Zero Energy Residential Buildings Study released by Team Zero. The report documents 22,146 units that are either in...

We are excited to announce that Kat Taylor will be a keynote speaker at our 2019 Getting to Zero Forum. Kat is Co-Founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and certified B Corporation whose...

Flywheel Development is a real estate development company in the District of Columbia that builds ultra-low energy properties in urban neighborhoods. We sat down with co-owners Jessica Pitts and John Miller to learn more about how they are redeveloping areas...

When Appendix Z becomes the District of Columbia base energy code in the next decade, all new construction will be required to be designed to net-zero standards. This means all new buildings will use only as much energy as they...

This blog was originally posted by Brooks Kushman on May 30, 2019. A new “net zero energy building” opened in Singapore recently, signaling a step in the right direction for the World Green Building Council’s mission of all buildings operating at...

Guest blog written By Chris McEntee, Executive Director/CEO at AGU AGU is a global community of 60,000 Earth and space scientists. They are celebrating their Centennial year reflecting on past accomplishments and looking to the future to transform and improve...

Earlier this month, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels that surpassed 415 parts per million. That’s the highest level in recorded human history. As the potentially devastating impacts from carbon-fueled climate change loom, many cities and...