California Heat Pump Partnership member A.O. Smith's new Voltex X heat pump water heater reaches more cold-climate and space-constrained homes that standard units can't serve, bringing innovation to market and expanding access to these highly efficient appliances. 🔌 bit.ly/4wCgzoW #CAHPP #EnergySky

Member Spotlight: A.O. Smith's Split Heat Pump Water Heater Is Closing a Gap in the California Market - California Heat Pump Partnership

This month, we're spotlighting how CAHPP member A.O. Smith’s brand new heat pump product, the Voltex® X Outdoor Split Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) developed in partnership with Panasonic, is helping ...

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New research: swapping gas stoves for electric ones improved asthma symptoms 2x as much as typical medical treatment. Not only are these appliances healthier, but they’re also safe, highly efficient, and can help lower energy bills. @sammyroth.bsky.social breaks it down: bit.ly/3TN34nH

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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The next phase of the heat pump transition depends on contractors. BDC’s Panama Bartholomy joined Amply Energy to discuss how supporting HVAC contractors helps us make our homes healthier and more efficient. 🎧 Listen now to this episode of the #HeatPump podcast: youtu.be/ZyyNvivBl_U

Kern County is becoming one of CA's top heat pump markets: 45 contractors have completed 1,790+ installs through #TECHCleanCA at a median cost of $130—and some paid nothing. @capitolweekly.bsky.social has Chris Burmester's case for funding the program that made it happen. bit.ly/4yG1e8l #EnergySky

Kern County is building the heat pump workforce of the future - Capitol Weekly

OPINION — One of California's most surprising clean energy affordability breakthroughs isn't unfolding in San Francisco or Los Angeles. It's happening in hot, dry rural Kern County, where local contra...

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BDC’s Ashley Besic joined a panel at the 2026 NCEL National Forum this past weekend on “Cutting through the Noise: Digging Deep on New & Revived Energy Technologies,” during which she described how communities can use #ThermalEnergyNetworks to transition to clean heating and cooling.

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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ACHR News highlights #HVAC findings from BDC’s Q2 Momentum report: ⚡ 61% electric heating market share in new U.S. homes (2024) 📈 Q1 2026 #HeatPump shipments beat fossil-fuel furnaces by 32% 📊 Heat pumps coming within 2% of parity with ACs shipments in Q1 Read more: bit.ly/4vLeVQx #EnergySky 🔌💡

Electric Heating Gains Momentum in New Homes

Electric heating reached its highest-ever share of the U.S. new housing market in 2024, the Building Decarbonization Coalition report said, as 61% of the units completed that year were outfitted with ...

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🗞️ Per @grist.org, "It appears America is falling in love with heat pumps." New data from our Momentum report shows: ⚡ Q1 #HeatPump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32% 🏠 46% of new 2024 housing installed a heat pump 📈 Heat pump sales doubled in 15 yrs Read more: bit.ly/3Roc9Td #EnergySky

The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps

In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

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In CA mobile home communities, free heat pumps are cutting bills & protecting residents from extreme heat. @lauraklivans.bsky.social reports for @kqedscience.bsky.social on how a savvy contractor & state incentives are bringing #electrification to low-income Californians. bit.ly/4weWBR2

‘A Blessing from Heaven’: How Free Heat Pumps Are Saving Low-Income Californians From Extreme Heat | KQED

One Los Angeles contractor found a planet-friendly solution to a problem many California mobile home park residents face: dangerous heat and unaffordable cooling.

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BDC's Matt Casale spoke to @publicnewsservice.bsky.social about the many benefits of efficient electric appliances like window heat pumps and how all-electric buildings are healthy, comfortable, and affordable.

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Building more apartments could do more than ease the #housing shortage. A new report says apartments are often an "almost automatic form of building decarbonization" because they use less energy and are more likely to rely on electric heating than single-family homes. Collab with @grist.org

⚡ BDC’s July Decarb Digest highlights insights from the Momentum Q2 | 2026 Report, #HeatPump and #Induction testimonials, the latest report roundup, and policy updates from California and New York. Read more: bit.ly/4vAqtWS #EnergySky

CA is moving closer to neighborhood-scale decarbonization pilots through #SB1221, which will have real benefits for households: lower bills, cleaner air, life-saving cooling. Now, we need an expedited process to get these pilots off the ground. @nrdc.org bit.ly/4gGwhKE #BuildingDecarb #EnergySky

California moves closer to neighborhood-scale decarbonization pilot programs but state regulators must expedite process

The first-ever process will enable voluntary pilot programs where it will benefit homeowners with affordable, zero-emission alternatives like neighborhood electrification and thermal energy networks

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📣 BDC Report finds that most new houses are being built with #CleanHeat systems, #HeatPump sales continue to outpace fossil fuel heating equipment, #EnergyAffordability is a big midterm election issue, and states are building regulatory tools to transition away from gas. 🔌💡 bit.ly/4y6yOnr

BDC’s Ted Tiffany spoke to @alisontakemura.bsky.social at @canarymedia.com about how the DOE’s latest building code analysis ignores half the affordability picture—and why energy-efficient homes actually lead to long-term bill savings. bit.ly/4buDfi6 #EnergySky #BuildingDecarb #HeatPumps

Trump admin could undermine energy efficiency with dubious new…

A Department of Energy study found that the latest version of an international energy code would raise construction costs by billions — and ignored bill…

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Maryland's new Clean Heat Rules will help make energy more affordable for the state’s residents, while also delivering them cleaner air and healthier communities, write @sirnatony.bsky.social and @ruthannnorton.bsky.social in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social. #EnergySky #CleanHeat bit.ly/44OsKCz

Amid record-breaking heat, Maryland must act | GUEST COMMENTARY

Opinion: Amid record-breaking heat, investing in healthier, more affordable homes is so important, writes Ruth Ann Norton and Tony Sirna.

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SB 222, the #HeatPumpAccessAct, just passed two Assembly committees with bipartisan support 🎉 This bill will make #heatpump installations faster, easier, and more affordable for CA homeowners and contractors. Thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social for your leadership! bit.ly/4aBbrs5 #EnergySky

Senator Wiener's Heat Pump Access Act Advances in Legislature

SB 222, the Heat Pump Access Act authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), passed the Assembly Local Government Committee with bipartisan support after passing the Assembly Housing Committee...

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Cypress Mandela Training Center is teaching apprentices in the Bay Area to install #HeatPumps and build careers in clean energy as CA works toward its goal of 6 million heat pumps by 2030. Apply to join the next 12-week program starting in August! ⚡ Learn more: bit.ly/4p0MEnu #EnergySky

In East Oakland, a workforce center is training the next generation of clean energy professionals - California Heat Pump Partnership

If you walk into the 80,000-square-foot Cypress Mandela Training Center on a weekday morning in East Oakland, you'll find 50 to 60 trade apprentices deep in classroom lessons and hands-on training dem...

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Read about the @calenergy.bsky.social program @buildingdecarb.org's @panamaredhat.bsky.social calls "the biggest building decarbonization program in the universe." www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/california-i... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

California is investing a half-billion dollars to decarbonize homes for low-income households

California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households across the state under the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program.

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⚡ BDC’s June Decarb Digest highlights insights from the Electrification Summit, a Volts podcast on energy affordability and the future of gas systems, and an Electric Happy Hour! that educated CA policymakers on the benefits of #HeatPumps and #Induction. Read more: bit.ly/4aLU2Nk #EnergySky

The 4th annual Electric Happy Hour brought together policymakers, industry leaders, and clean energy enthusiasts in Sacramento to experience the benefits of heat pumps and induction. Thanks to @asmransom.bsky.social, APICA, Copper, & Daikin for helping make it a record year. ⚡🏠 bit.ly/4e8fL2U

The 4th Annual Electric Happy Hour Celebrated All-Electric Homes in Sacramento - California Heat Pump Partnership

The Building Decarbonization Coalition hosted its annual Electric Happy Hour in Sacramento to educate and raise favorability for electrification through heat pumps and induction.

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⚡ The POWER Act will establish nation-leading guardrails that protect Illinois’ water, energy, ratepayers, and communities from data center harms. Join BDC & @ilenviro.bsky.social at the IL Capitol on May 30 to ensure data centers are good neighbors who pay their fair share! RSVP: bit.ly/POWER2026

POWER Act Lobby Day 2026

Illinois' environmental movement will gather at the State Capitol to meet with legislators and push for support of the POWER Act (SB4016/HB5513) - nation-leading legislation that protects Illinois fro...

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Changes to NY’s Climate Act compromise market certainty for its clean heat industry. However, we celebrate the budget's #ThermalEnergyNetwork, EmPower+ and other #BuildingDecarb investments, which will deliver a more affordable, cleaner, and healthier future to NYers: bit.ly/49VhaIS

Statement from BDC on New York's enacted FY 2027 budget

The Building Decarbonization Coalition celebrates the investments included in the enacted state budget that will direct funding towards renewable energy and decarbonizing buildings.

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Our energy affordability crisis has a hidden driver: utilities spending billions on gas pipelines. But, as @kgeorgebagdanov.bsky.social and @panamaredhat.bsky.social tell @volts.wtf, states are increasingly implementing policies to transition us away from gas to affordable clean heat and cooling.

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Today on Volts: as affluent homeowners switch to heat pumps, the fixed costs of the fossil-gas network are born by a shrinking class of consumers who can least afford it. Today I talk with folks from @buildingdecarb.org about how to phase out gas in a thoughtful, equitable way, one chunk at a time.

If the #Abundance agenda is about making life affordable and livable, labor has to be at the center of it. We don’t build abundant energy infrastructure, like #ThermalEnergyNetworks, without skilled workers, explains @ryderkessler.bsky.social in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social. bit.ly/4utk53U

Opinion: Next on the Abundance Agenda? Abundant Labor. - City Limits

"The reason there is an abundance movement at all is to address the same challenges facing union members: working families and marginalized communities are being crushed under the weight of a status q...

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🗽Investing $200M in this year’s NY state budget to expand thermal energy networks will be a “win for affordability, a win for our environment, and a win for New York’s future,” writes NYS Assemblymember Chris Burdick. #ThermalEnergyNetwork #BuildingDecarb #EnergyAffordability bit.ly/4u85PwB

Thermal Energy Networks Are a Smart Investment for New York’s Future

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Thank you to all who attended the 4th annual Electric Happy Hour! in Sacramento for delicious #InductionCooking, co-hosted by @buildingdecarb.org @asmransom.bsky.social, AIPCA, Copper Home, & Daikin! ⚡Special thanks to @asmmikefong.bsky.social, @asmtasha.bsky.social, and Asm. Solache for joining us.

California's first-ever Heat Pump Week is a wrap, but momentum is still going strong.🔥116 events across 45 cities, support from 57 partners and sponsors, and 3.4 million social media users reached. Learn more about this historic campaign: bit.ly/3PCORIh #HeatPumpWeekCA #BuildingDecarb #HeatPumps

⚡ BDC’s May Decarb Digest spotlights the momentum around #HeatPumpWeekCA, the Maryland Utility RELIEF Act’s allocation of +$72M to help low- and moderate-income households install heat pumps, and other recent #BuildingDecarb news and policy developments: bit.ly/4tYdZbu #HeatPump #EnergySky

MD’s Utility RELIEF Act will help lower energy bills, create jobs & reduce pollution by including +$72M for #HeatPump and other home energy upgrades in MD's FY27 budget & explicitly authorizing the Strategic Energy Investment Fund to fund #BuildingElectrification programs. #EnergySky bit.ly/485Kn30

Maryland’s Utility RELIEF Act allocates over $72 million for equitable home energy upgrades and updates SEIF, expanding access to heat pumps

New heat pump funding and authorization of Maryland’s Strategic Energy Investment Fund for building electrification will lower Marylanders’ energy bills and create jobs

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Thermal energy networks are a win-win for New York because they: 🌱 Lower carbon emissions ⚡ Reduce the strain on the power grid 💲 Lower utility costs for New Yorkers. NY must include $200 million in the state budget for thermal energy networks. bit.ly/4sAp7JW