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This week in buildings, land and industry decarbonization news, NetZero Insider’s John Cropley wrote about the Vermont PUC pushing back on a legislative requirement for a costly credit-trading system meant to meet a clean heat standard. The commission said any system was too expensive for one small state to pay for on its own and that it would craft an alternative.
Vermont is one of the few states where residents use heating oil, which EIA said was going to be the priciest of the four main heating fuels this year, in its Winter Fuels Outlook. James Downing wrote about the outlook, which is calling for the Midwest to see the biggest jump in heating bills this winter as temperatures return to normal after mild weather last year.
James also wrote about a paper on how electrification will impact the grid and what aspects planners need to consider. The Energy Systems Integration Group paper said the biggest change would be how many more regions are winter peaking, which has many knock-on effects.
In news from other sources, Energy News Network has the details on the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities requiring National Grid to come up with a special rate for heat pumps. The technology is an important part of the state’s decarbonization plan, but expensive electricity and cheap gas have held back their deployments in the commonwealth.
Emerging Tech Brew looked into the issues around artificial intelligence’s energy demands and how the new technology might be able to relieve stress on the grid through demand response and improved efficiency.
Read all that and more in this week’s intelligence report:
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