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Power Forward Communities — a coalition including Rewiring America — has been selected to receive a $2 billion grant from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to create affordable financing solutions for Americans to decarbonize their homes.
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Power Forward Communities — a coalition including Rewiring America — has been selected to receive a $2 billion grant from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to create affordable financing solutions for Americans to decarbonize their homes.
New alliance forms to develop nation’s most comprehensive open-source data set of residential electrification incentives
NODE Collective is recruiting collaborators and funders to help overcome the fragmented incentive data landscape.
Rewiring America Launches “Personal Electrification Planner” Tool to Help American Homeowners Go Electric and Save Money
“PEP” delivers comprehensive whole-home electrification plan with new features forthcoming to help homeowners go from planning to fully electrified living.
A New Coalition Forms for Unprecedented U.S. Housing Decarbonization
Rewiring America, Enterprise Community Partners, LISC, United Way, and Habitat for Humanity apply for $9.5 billion in funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as new entity: Power Forward Communities.
Rewiring America on the Inflation Reduction Act Anniversary
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law one year ago, is the largest climate investment in American history — but also a generational investment in our personal infrastructure: our homes, vehicles, and communities.
Rewiring America Statement on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Proposed Guidance on Electrification Rebates
By early next year, $8.8 billion for home energy upgrades will start saving Americans money on home improvements, lower their energy bills, and create 50,000 new, skilled jobs.
Aimee Witteman Joins Rewiring America
Former Energy Department and climate philanthropy leader will head investment strategy to scale home and community electrification
Ilyse Hogue Joins Rewiring America
Former NARAL Pro-Choice America President Joins Movement to Electrify American Homes and Communities.
Stacey Abrams Joins Rewiring America as Senior Counsel
Political leader, voting rights activist, and bestselling author Stacey Abrams is joining Rewiring America.
Electrify my government
How a federal government-wide electrification campaign will meet our emissions goals.
10 facts about all-electric new buildings
The All-Electric Buildings Act would electrify new construction in New York State.
QR codes aren’t just for restaurant menus
Optimizing electric appliance data and reporting to unlock a new home energy information ecosystem
An IRA Implementation Memo: Frictionless Income Verification Methods
Making the Electrification Rebates efficient and effective, from DOE to SEOs to program implementers
Major U.S. Companies Launch A Nationwide Education Campaign To Help American Households Go Electric
Today, the first seven U.S. companies joined nonprofit Rewiring America in a new consumer outreach and education campaign to connect American households with Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) rebates and tax incentives to go electric.
Making the Electric Bank Account Go Further
Implementation recommendations for the $27B Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to prioritize deployment, equity and sustained growth to help every U.S. household use their Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
IRA Investment for Tribal and Indigenous Communities
Our memo outlines over $46 billion in eligible funding for electrification, energy system transformation and pollution reduction.
Implementing the DPA
The Defense Production Act (DPA), together with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reduce energy bills for everyday Americans, bolster national energy security, spur domestic clean energy manufacturing capacity, create good-paying jobs and deliver meaningful progress in the fight against climate change.
Go Electric! Free guide to the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act is full of incentives to help you and your family go electric. But there’s a lot to explore and understand, from electric appliances you may not even know about yet to the best way to structure your electric journey for maximum savings.
Clean and Healthy Schools are Electric
Years of disruption — by heat waves, wildfires, mudslides and the COVID-19 pandemic — have demonstrated that California’s schools are not equipped to keep students safe and healthy. Aging HVAC systems cannot filter wildfire smoke or viruses, so schools close and students fall behind. Students in schools without HVAC systems altogether face even worse outcomes.
- August 5, 2022
Climate Deal (IRA) Joint Statement
Over 60 organizations celebrate introduction of historic climate provisions in Inflation Reduction Act, call for its swift passage to address climate emergency, lower household energy costs
The Electric Explainer: Key programs in the Inflation Reduction Act and what they mean for Americans
A landmark climate investment to charge a path forward.
Clean energy investments are the antidote to inflation
Congressional energy investments will empower American families to electrify their homes and save money on their energy bills, all while combating inflation, foreign energy dependence and climate change.
Circuit Breaker: Electrification won’t break the grid, it will make it smarter.
To meet our climate goals, we’ll need to deliver two to three times as much electricity as today. Fortunately, we’ve scaled the grid faster than this before and can do it again. Smart grid technologies can allow more electricity to be delivered by the same infrastructure, reducing the amount of new grid build-out and increasing resilience. Smart electric panels can enable whole home electrification, including EVs and heat pumps, largely without upgrading upstream infrastructure like wires or transformers, cutting the cost and time required for electrification.
President Biden invokes the Defense Production Act to boost the clean technology we need for economy-wide electrification.
We applaud President Biden for his decisive action to advance American energy independence and climate leadership by invoking the Defense Production Act to boost the domestic manufacturing capacity for heat pumps, solar panels and building insulation.
Statement on Supreme Court Decision
Our work gets harder, but we continue with conviction
Electrify for Peace Plan
The Electrify for Peace Policy Plan is a three-part market transformation plan that bolsters American manufacturing and labor capacity. It is a geopolitical and climate imperative that we embrace the politics of abundance and freedom that come with electrifying everything and powering our lives with renewable energy.
Electrification Caucus Co-Chairs and Members Call on FERC to Improve Grid Reliability and Lower Energy Costs
“We have technologies we can deploy today to reduce household energy bills, improve reliability, create jobs, and cut harmful carbon pollution. We urge you to take next steps as expeditiously as possible to upgrade and expand our electric grid to enable power sharing across regions and the connection of more affordable and abundant renewable energy to power our homes, businesses, and vehicles at lower costs.”
Circuit Breaker: Heat Pumps emit less than high efficiency gas appliances in nearly every household in America.
Heat pumps are the cleaner choice. Even under conservative DOE minimum efficiency standards and 100-year global warming potentials, 98% of U.S. households would cut their carbon emissions by installing a heat pump.
Electrification Caucus Co-Chairs Call On President Biden To Achieve True Energy Independence With Electrification And Clean Energy
Electrification Caucus Co-chairs: "We urge the Biden Administration to take action to ramp up American manufacturing and adoption of electric appliances like heat pumps and work with the Senate to steer transformative investments in clean energy across the finish line."
A New Rewiring America Report: How to Electrify a Mid-Size City
Rewiring America, Sierra Club DC, and Earth Justice share their electrification vision for the District of Columbia. We know that electrification is the right solution. This report, submitted to the DC Public Service Commission, where we welcome your comments and support, provides an electric blueprint for mid-sized municipalities.
Handbook: Electrify Everything in Your Home
We’ve been telling you why to do it. Now we’ve put together the best advice on how to do it. "Electrify Everything in Your Home" is a guide to replacing all of your fossil-fueled appliances with modern electric ones. A guide to comfy, healthy, carbon-free living. The e-book is free.
Fact Sheet: What’s at Stake
Forty-two percent of U.S. energy-related emissions come from our homes and the machines we use every day: the cars we drive, how we heat and cool our homes, how we heat our water, dry our clothes, and cook our meals. We stand no chance of staying inside of 1.5°C warming unless we electrify our lives.
Delivering President Biden's Climate Agenda
Call to action for the U.S. Senate to pass Biden's Build Back Better legislation.
Energy Bill Security Through Electrification
Americans who electrify their lives will save money and increase bill certainty while cutting emissions through efficient, electric heat pumps and electric vehicles.
Three Coalitions Have Launched
The Congressional Electrification Caucus and Rewiring America’s Mayors for Electrification and CEOs for Electrification represent the first time that public, private, national and local leaders are coming together to make electrification central to our climate strategy.
Electrify! by Saul Griffith
An action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs: electrify everything. “Surprisingly optimistic, realistic, and persuasive," according to Kirkus Reviews.
U.S. Benefits of Household Electrification
In addition to utility bill savings, you can see other benefits like job creation and emissions reduction mapped by county.
Bringing Infrastructure Home
The case for why the American household is infrastructure that our government should invest in. We spend more time in homes than on our highways!
Poll: U.S. Attitudes on Electrification
Nearly three-quarters of voters support federal investment to lower monthly household electricity costs.
Zero-Emission Homes Act
Support legislation to make electric appliances affordable for all American households.
