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Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* White House Announcements The White House has been busy and released multiple fact sheets and press releases in relation to the housing and energy industries. Modernize Building Codes, Improve Climate Resilience, and Reduce Energy Costs In this June 1 announcement, the White House highlighted that modernized energy codes can save households an …
ICAST’s Work with Environmental Justice Communities Advances Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion As recently announced, ICAST was awarded $50,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to serve multifamily affordable housing (MFAH) property owners in environmental justice (EJ) communities in New Mexico. Maintaining healthy, affordable housing is a clear EJ goal: it promotes healthy, productive, and sustainable environments for …
Case Study: Getting Ahead of the Decarbonization Curve By Mark Fogarty / Issue: June 2022 Projects in New York and Salt Lake City Save Tons on Carbon Annually Decarbonization, changing from fossil fuels to electric, is a word affordable multifamily asset managers are going to need to learn in a hurry, if they don’t know it already. And that’s true even if the electricity …
ICAST Signs Contract to Create Energy Efficiency and Healthy Homes in Environmental Justice Communities ICAST recently signed a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to facilitate green upgrades for small business multifamily affordable housing (MFAH) property owners in New Mexico. ICAST will provide property owners with the necessary support to help them pursue green retrofits, including information on the …
Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* White House Publishes Clean Energy Opportunities On April 20, the White House published a fact sheet on the Administration’s creation of cost-saving clean energy opportunities to combat the climate crisis. The following are included directly from the publication: HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing Benefits from Solar The U.S. Department of …
ICAST Releases Resource Guide for Deploying Innovative Green Technologies in Multifamily Housing Since 2020, ICAST has been implementing a U.S. Dept. of Energy-funded program to catalyze the mass adoption of very high-efficiency (VHE) heat pump-based HVAC and water-heating technologies in multifamily affordable housing (MFAH). VHE heat pumps can help reduce MFAH residents’ utility bills, cut carbon emissions, and preserve and …
ICAST Awarded $2 Million Healthy Homes Production Grant The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently awarded ICAST a $2M Healthy Homes Production Grant to retrofit at least 200 low-income (LI) multifamily homes in New Mexico. ICAST will collaborate with local partners to identify properties with significant home environmental hazards (e.g., radon, mold) and deliver healthy homes and …
A wave of monster energy storage projects has washed up in Southern California, with LS Power recently flipping on the most powerful one yet. Things are moving fast in the grid battery industry — and nowhere faster than California. That’s where LS Power, a private equity firm and grid infrastructure developer, hooked up the new most powerful battery in the country last month. …
As the world begins to emerge from mandated lockdowns, many of us have developed a different perspective concerning humankind’s impact on the environment. Even though Harvard University has asserted that there isn’t direct evidence to link climate change to the spread of COVID-19, the Ivy League college did suggest that climate change affects human health in general. Whether it’s deforestation, the emission …
GridLab and UC-Berkeley show that a 90 percent carbon-free US electricity grid is both reliable and lower cost For a decade or more, even as renewables have gained market share within the US power grid, accelerated progress toward a lower-carbon grid has been held up by two dominant–but outdated–narratives. First, utilities and others have long argued that renewables, in particular …