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This week in buildings, land and industry decarbonization news, our K Kaufmann has a story detailing the General Services Administration’s efforts to decarbonize federal buildings. On July 31, it released a solicitation for 1.1 million MWh of 24/7 carbon-free power from PJM’s markets. The next day, it worked with the Energy Department to request information on energy efficiency and carbon technologies that can be tested in federal buildings.
NetZero Insider’s John Cropley has a story on an emerging dispute in New York around the pace and costs of its economy-wide climate laws. The state determined it would miss 2030 power mix and emissions targets for 2030. Now environmentalists want the state to pick up the pace, while business and labor groups want the state to slow down and assess the policy’s economic impact.
International Water Power and Dam Construction has a story that could help New York’s building sector hit some of those targets, as it highlights the use of “micro hydro-generators” that can be installed in their water systems to produce electricity. Getting water to upper floors and allowing residents to use it safely has many opportunities to capture waste heat, or run a turbine.
A big source of climate emissions comes from the wrong end of cows, whose gaseous emissions release methane into the atmosphere, and the Christian Science Monitor wrote about efforts to cut the climate impacts of bovine belches and farts. Scientists are testing methods such as new sources of feed to limit methane from cattle.
Cooking is a major source of emissions tied to homes and restaurants, and Canary Media has a story on how new electric stoves are paired with batteries to get around voltage levels in older homes. Older homes often lack the 240-V connections that modern electric stoves require, but pairing them with batteries can make such models work with 120-V plugs.
E&E News by POLITICO has a story on how the Department of Energy has released Inflation Reduction Act money for low-income home energy retrofits to just its second state, Wisconsin. New York was first, but the money was first allocated two years ago, and it is only now starting to reach consumers.
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