Many households in the northern hemisphere have been waking up to the first frost of the winter season. With energy prices soaring, consumers will be nervously checking their smart meters as they ...
ATLANTA – While the importance of building energy performance metrics to reduce energy use is accepted worldwide, there is no single generally accepted definition of that metric. Currently, proposed ...
The Energy Department released its findings in the recently published A Common Definition for Zero Energy Buildings. The U.S. Department of Energy has released a common definition for a zero energy ...
After four years of backsliding under former President Donald Trump, the U.S. is back to increasing its climate ambitions. But there’s a fight brewing over what exactly constitutes zero-carbon energy, ...
U.S. Department of Energy Headquarters, the Forrestal Building, in Washington, D.C. (Payton Chung/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) DOE added that the definition established in 2024 was not a regulatory ...
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 made significant modifications and additions to the energy credit available under Section 48 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code” and ...
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has issued its first definition of what it means to be a zero-energy building, and buildings-related organizations say that it should provide consistency and clarity for the ...