Electrification
As the wealthy go electric, who will pay for aging gas infrastructure?
Electrification is ramping up. Advocates say we need plans to shield lower-income people from the costs of maintaining a deteriorating fossil-gas system.
Electrification
Batteries
Looking for some home energy storage? You’ve never had so many choices
The once-tiny residential battery market is attracting dozens of new entrants, including recognizable consumer brands like Anker, Duracell and Energizer.
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Guides and how-tos
Could you get home energy and EV incentives under the climate law?
Find out which tax credits and upfront discounts you can earn for heat pumps, solar, electric vehicles and more — and how much money they could save you. -
Heat pumps
Finally, a heat-pump water heater that plugs into a standard outlet
How a public-private collaboration brought a key climate-change-fighting tool to market: an efficient 120-volt water heater that can be easily installed in homes.
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Electrification
How much money can you save under the new climate law?
Rewiring America CEO Ari Matusiak breaks down the discounts, credits and incentives available to homeowners in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Podcast
Going electric? The new climate law can help
Now that the Inflation Reduction Act is law, how might it transform your home? And how much money can you save by going electric?
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Electrification
Climate law could spur ‘market transformation’ in home electrification
The Inflation Reduction Act has tax credits, rebates and loans to make homes more efficient and move them from fossil fuels to electricity.
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Electric vehicles
US climate law will help electrify more USPS mail trucks
The Inflation Reduction Act includes $3 billion to convert the nation’s aging mail truck fleet to cleaner electric vehicles.
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Heat pumps
Chart: Which states have the most heat pumps?
More than 17 million U.S. homes have central heat pumps. Most of them are in states you might not expect.
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Guest Essay
America's heat-pump market has a sugar-crash problem
Incentive programs for heat pumps offer big consumer rebates that cause demand to spike, then they run out of money and cause demand to plummet. Here’s a fix.
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Heat pumps
Window heat pumps will help electrify New York City's apartments
A $70 million initiative will deploy 30,000 electric heat pumps to bring climate-friendly comfort to residents of NYC's aging public-housing units.
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