November 2, 2022
Connected Communities Cohort Kicks Off: A New Era for Grid-Efficient Buildings
Today, DOE kicked off the inaugural cohort of Connected Communities at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
November 2, 2022
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $250 Million Investment From Inflation Reduction Act For Domestic Heat Pump Manufacturing
DOE Seeks Input on Best Uses of Defense Production Act Authority to Bolster American Clean Energy Manufacturing and Strengthen National Security, Announces Additional Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge Partner Successes
November 1, 2022
EPA’s New ENERGY STAR® Specifications for Windows, Doors, and Skylights Made Possible through DOE Investments and Analyses
Recently, the ENERGY STAR® program released its final specification (Version 7.0) for residential windows, doors, and skylights that establish higher energy-efficiency benchmarks for products to earn EPA’s coveted ENERGY STAR certification.
November 1, 2022
Study Finds Home Energy Score Positively Linked to Sale Price and Loan Performance
First-ever Berkeley Lab study finds relationship between Home Energy Score, sale price, and mortgage repayment in cities with Home Energy Score listing policies.
October 27, 2022
DOE Intends to Issue Funding Opportunity for Innovations that Electrify, Optimize, and Decarbonize Building Operations
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced its intent to issue a FOA called “Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) - 2022.”
October 26, 2022
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $84.5 Million to Make Clean Energy Improvements and Lower Energy Costs for K-12 Schools
New Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Grant Program and Prize Competition for Public School Energy Improvements Will Save Schools Money and Enhance Learning Environments
October 17, 2022
Meet Clean Energy Champion Antonio Bouza
Tony Bouza has a passion for heat pumps and says working in energy efficiency is his dream. Find out where his enthusiasm comes from and how he's working to improve homes and buildings around the country.
October 14, 2022
Discovering Unexpected Synergies Between Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
With funding from the Building Technologies Office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently published a four-part, multi-year study looking at the interactive effects of energy efficiency and demand response.
October 13, 2022
GSA and DOE Issue RFI for Technologies that Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. General Services Administration, in collaboration with BTO, has issued a request for information for technologies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings.
October 3, 2022
DOE Seeks Input on How Defense Production Act Could Support National Security by Strengthening Grid Reliability
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a Request for Information (RFI) to determine how DOE could best leverage the Defense Production Act (DPA) authority invoked by President Biden