Offshore Wind’s Path Ahead in the U.S.
In early December 2023, New York’s first offshore wind project—South Fork Wind—became the first commercial-scale installment to send electricity to the U.S. grid. When...
With a mission to accelerate the clean energy transition in Indiana, McKinney Family Foundation, Herbert Simon Family Foundation, and U.S. Energy Foundation (EF)—in partnership...
In early December 2023, New York’s first offshore wind project—South Fork Wind—became the first commercial-scale installment to send electricity to the U.S. grid. When...
This month is your chance to learn everything you wanted to know about electric vehicles (EVs) and even test drive one. National Drive Electric...
As the school year commences yet again for young people across America, we want to shine a light on the many ways local K-12...
As children head back to school this fall, some families may notice that their yellow school bus has gotten an upgrade. Electric school buses...
On August 25, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation. The historic action will...
Heat waves kill more people in the U.S. than hurricanes, tornados, floods, or any other weather hazard—combined. Heat waves have grown three times as...
Buildings now are the leading source of air pollution from human activity connected to premature death—more than any other sector (see note below), including...
This week, the environmental movement lost a great leader much too soon with the passing of Cecil Corbin-Mark, the Deputy Director and Director of...
U.S. Energy Foundation recently welcomed new leadership to its board of directors: Rose McKinney-James has been named board chair and Nicole Systrom is vice...
Coronavirus is in the air—particularly indoor air. Eight months into this pandemic response and the science has confirmed more strongly the airborne risks of...
The built environment is responsible for the vast majority—over 60 percent of energy use—of our nation’s carbon problem, if you include industrial facilities. And...
Today’s typical American home powers an impressive array of appliances, electronics, and equipment—but believe it or not, energy consumption has actually declined over the...
This post is part of our blog series, “Energy Optimization: It’s Time to Reimagine Energy Efficiency.” No effort to clean up our emissions can...
As we’ve touched on so far in our series on Energy Optimization, electrifying our built environment requires innovation in policy frameworks, finance mechanisms, and...
In today’s connected world, devices can tell us everything from how well we slept last night to who knocked on the door while we...
In our six-part series on energy optimization, we’re introducing five pivots in strategy that can shift the building sector into being an accelerator of...
2018 saw a 30 percent increase in farm bankruptcies across six Midwest states, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, as...
Thanks to a decades-long fight to make our light bulbs more energy efficient, you have probably swapped out many of your home’s old Edison...
For decades now, energy efficiency has been a stalwart tool for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and lowering utility bills. With appliance standards, utility programs,...
A future filled with electric cars, renewable energy, and efficient buildings will require a modernized grid. As utilities begin to recognize the financial opportunities...
On Earth Day, people around the world take stock of how our countries and communities are doing in addressing the challenges that threaten our...
Electric vehicle (EV) sales are on the rise in both the U.S. and across the globe. Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Morgan Stanley both...
It takes energy to heat things up and to cool things down—a lot of energy. In the U.S., 25 percent of our energy use...
A group of 29 philanthropists recently pledged $4 billion over the next five years to combat climate change—the largest-ever philanthropic investment focused on climate...