The two bills deal with energy efficiency standards administered by the Department of Energy for home appliances.

Bend's proposal is modeled on a policy adopted in Ashland last year, when that city approved Oregon’s first carbon‑pollution fee on natural gas appliances in new residential construction.

While indigenous solutions face regulatory hurdles, poorly executed conventional buildings often pass through the systems quite easily.

New homes in Oregon will be built using heat pumps instead of ducted a/c, a move that might be replicated in other states.

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Part of the problem is Vermont’s cold climate. During bouts of cold weather, some customers turn off their heat pumps, the report says, to rely on other fuels. This is due to the systems being pushed ...

In September, U.S. Department of Energy canceled funding that was going to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study how wildlife interacts with solar arrays and to create an academic center on ...

Idaho won’t be getting a new building code this year. Last week, all but two members of the legislature’s House Business Committee rejected a proposal to adopt a new building code for the State of ...

Kansas City adopted stricter energy conservation codes in 2023, hoping that neighboring cities would follow its lead. Instead ...

In last year’s ZohoDay event, Zoho presented an agentic AI builder and cross-application natural language interfaces through ...

In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, ...

Learn how to choose the right roof shingle for your home. Building pros share advice for considering architectural style, ...