A Power Plant That Fits in Your Utility Room
Multifamily landlords and institutional property owners seeking to cut their electricity bills have a new utility system option developed by a South Windsor company, Enviro Power.
The City Where Skyscrapers Are Turning to Carbon Capture
The goal is to stop that climate-warming gas from entering the atmosphere. And there’s a dire need for reducing emissions from skyscrapers like these in such a vertical city: New York state’s buildings also emit more air pollution than any other state’s.
How to Prep a Home for the All-Electric Future
The shift toward all-electric living is underway. But if you are a buyer in today’s new home market, how do you navigate the transition to make sure your house is not outdated before you’ve hardly settled in?
A Rapid Growth Phase in Green Energy Financing
When landlords want to finance building energy upgrades on a repayment timetable that makes sense for them, they turn to Alexandra Cooley.
CT Green Bank Revamps Incentives for Efficiency in New Construction
The Connecticut Green Bank has added incentives for developers of new construction, repositioning, and gut rehabilitation projects to go green with their designs and building materials.
Lamont Calls for ‘Zero Carbon’ Statewide by 2040
Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed the state set a binding target to make the state’s electrical grid carbon-free by 2040.
Lamont Signs Sweeping Order on Climate Change, with Real Estate Implications
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed a sweeping executive order aimed at reducing pollution and addressing climate change Thursday.
Homebuilders Push Back Against Proposed Green Building Code
Connecticut’s homebuilding industry is pushing back against efforts to mandate more energy efficiency in new buildings as a way to combat climate change.
Nuveen Buys Darien CRE Lender
Commercial real estate lender Greenworks Lending, which focuses on funding energy efficiency projects for multifamily and other real estate projects, has been bought by an arm of a large pension fund.
CT Scores Grant to Finance Energy Efficiency in Affordable Units
A new $100,000 grant will bolster housing projects serving low- and moderate-income Connecticut residents, allocated by a national organization that assists renewable and energy-efficiency financing efforts.
The All-Electric House Makes a Comeback
The reason? Climate change: The heating and cooling of buildings accounts for roughly 10 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Fighting Climate Change in America Means Changes to America
President Joe Biden has initiated a flurry of executive actions to make sure the country can get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but many steps still remain.
New Haven Offers Height-for-Green Building Trade in Downtown Zoning
New Haven officials are offering to let buildings in part of the city’s downtown soar to new heights, provided they implement green building technologies.
Let’s Stop the Demolition Derby
What if builders stripped out the good stuff – cabinetry, doors, windows, bathroom fixtures, hardwood floors – before bulldozing old dwellings? Then those materials could be used in remodeling jobs, incorporated into new construction, or sold.
Green Bank Clean Energy Program Hits 300-Project Mark
The Connecticut Green Bank’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program surpassed 300 closed projects at the end of 2019, reaching a total of more than $163 million in clean energy financing investment in local businesses.
Yale Plans Off-Grid, 127K SF ‘Living Village’
Yale Divinity School plans to build a 127,000-square-foot student housing project on the site of a parking lot next to its New Haven campus that promises to be a model of sustainable construction.
Builders Wary of Lamont Green Building Code Proposal
Gov. Ned Lamont wants to give Connecticut cities and towns the power to adopt their own “green building codes” that could require designs with enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability.
CHFA Receives National Recognition For Green Building Strategies
A new report from national environmental organization Global Green USA recently awarded the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) an “A-” for building strategies included in the state of Connecticut’s Qualified Application Plan (QAP) and CHFA’s multifamily design, construction and sustainability standards and guidelines that result in energy-efficient housing that costs less to operate.
