This work aims to characterize how home energy upgrade projects and programs in the US
have evolved over the past decade. It also identifies what changes are needed to drive …

In order to meet climate goals, it will be necessary to significantly reduce the greenhouse
gases emitted by homes. A key factor in the US is to reduce the on-site combustion of fossil …

Electrification of fossil-fuel combustion in buildings is a key component of achieving global
greenhouse gas emissions targets. We use physics simulations of 550,000 statistically …

Concerns about the potential economic consequences of earthquakes have increased in
recent years as scientifically based probabilities of future earthquakes in many large urban …

Climate change is driving urgent investments in decarbonization. One core decarbonization
strategy is to electrify energy services that currently directly use fossil fuels, because …

Building electrification is the movement to shift building operational energy use from fossil
fuels toward electricity. It has been pursued mainly to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Residential heat pumps could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but increase energy
burdens, the proportion of income households spend on utility bills. We analyze utility bills …

The upgrading of existing homes through electrification will play a critical role in the
decarbonization of the residential building stock in the US. Currently, upgrade project cost is …

Decarbonizing the US residential building stock requires a substantial acceleration in home
energy upgrades. Numerous barriers exist to accelerating adoption of efficient and electric …

Executive Summary The Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative from the US
Department of Energy Building Technologies Office is working to accelerate industrialized …