It has been nearly 10 years since Duke University's formal commitment to climate action via the creation of the first campus-wide climate action plan, "Growing Green: Becoming a Climate Neutral Campus". As the Duke Office ...

States across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic have implemented particularly ambitious policies to deploy clean energy and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electric sector. These policies create a challenge ...

The goal of this project is to provide recommendations for the design of a blockchain ecosystem that can be used for creating or supporting a market for energy efficiency certificates, a trading commodity for packaging energy ...

New York’s Upper West Side composes of hundreds of housing cooperative (co-op) apartment buildings using No. 6 oil as their primary heating fuel. The use of No. 6 oil in less than 1% of the building stock citywide provided ...

The purpose of this project is to help Better Buildings New York (BBNY), a non-profit organization focused on increasing energy efficiency and decreasing energy bills of NYC buildings, educate multifamily co-op and condo ...

This study offers a qualitative appraisal of the interaction between affordable housing policies and energy efficiency in New York City. We summarize key affordable housing policies and energy efficiency programs at the ...

Previous studies of Energy efficiency (EE) investments at the household level suggest they can be cost effective and contribute to energy security, and reductions of CO2 emissions from the electric power system. This study ...

Energy efficient technologies are a major tool for reducing electricity usage as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, serious market barriers impede the diffusion of these solutions. Many utilities offer programs ...

North Carolina’s demand for electricity will grow at approximately 1.1% annually through 2035. That could mean an additional yearly demand of 39 million megawatt hours (MWh) by 2035, enough to power 2.9 million North Carolina ...

On behalf of their client Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU), three Nicholas School Masters of Environmental Management students have composed the framework for a future comprehensive sustainability plan. The purpose is ...