In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

Steam, Coal, and Capital

Join BDC and the Future of Heat Initiative for a discussion about utilities’ accelerated gas pipeline replacement programs, including new research on their costs and safety outcomes. Using Pennsylvani...

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from quality to quantity to work

How ground-source heat pumps and thermal energy networks can ease Cascadia’s grid crunch.

In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil-fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

Heat is universal, heating is social, and fossil heat is historical

The pollution inside our homes

What pipeline disasters tell us about the buried risks of cheap heat

The stratification of risk in frontline and fenceline communities

How cheap heat depends upon unequal exposure

A bill in Massachusetts would create a framework for a geothermal utility, with the aim of heating and cooling buildings cleanly and affordably.

How past decisions shape our energy future

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Ultraefficient heat pumps need to replace more than gas furnaces. They have to replace inefficient space heaters as well.

Rhode Island and New York are in the early stages of considering similar discounts for households that install the electric, clean-heating technology.

New heat pump funding and authorization of Maryland’s Strategic Energy Investment Fund for building electrification will lower Marylanders’ energy bills and create jobs