NYCHA Induction Stoves are a practical test of whether building electrification can move through older public housing without triggering uncontrolled infrastructure costs. NYCHA’s 2026 Sustainability Agenda sets a target of installing 10,000 induction stoves in apartments by 2031, including 7,500 in Section 9 units and 2,500 in Section 8 conversion, or PACT, units, according to the NYCHA Sustainability Agenda. That target is specific enough to measure, but the pathway depends on electrical capacity, appliance design, safety approvals, funding, and resident acceptance.… Read the rest
Author Archives: Jeffery Garrett
Building Electrification in New York Housing
New York’s investment in building electrification has moved from climate planning into enforceable building rules, multi-year budgets, and early compliance reporting. As of September 29, 2026, the clearest evidence is not a single emissions number. It is the combination of state and city mandates, funding authorizations, and identified housing segments where fossil-fuel heating systems are old enough to create a near-term replacement decision.
For green building policy, that distinction matters. A mandate can change what is allowed in new construction.… Read the rest
Lower Carbon Concrete Adoption in Greater LA
Greater Los Angeles has a scale problem as much as a materials problem. Lower carbon concrete adoption is being discussed because the region uses very large volumes of ready-mix concrete and cement, and because public agencies have started to connect procurement, building codes, and embodied-carbon targets. As of September 29, 2026, the available evidence points to real policy movement and early field use, but not yet to a fully mature regional market.… Read the rest
Clean Energy Permitting Faces New Delays
Clean Energy Permitting became a more visible constraint for U.S. renewable energy development by September 28, 2026. The issue is not whether wind, solar, and storage technologies are commercially ready; utility-scale projects are already part of the power system. The harder question is whether project approvals, grid connections, environmental reviews, federal land decisions, airspace reviews, and court challenges can move at a pace that supports investment without weakening legitimate public-interest safeguards.… Read the rest
Renewable Energy Forecasting With Machine Learning
Renewable energy forecasting has become a practical data problem for grid operators, plant owners, virtual power plant planners, and demand-side energy teams. Solar and wind output varies with weather, geography, equipment condition, and time of day. Consumption also changes across buildings, industrial sites, transport charging, and distributed energy systems. Machine learning can help identify patterns in these data streams, but the evidence does not support treating it as an automatic fix.… Read the rest
Renewable Capacity Growth After 2025 Policy Shifts
Renewable capacity growth in the United States during 2025 sent a mixed signal. Solar still added substantial capacity, battery storage set a higher annual mark in the research record, and wind additions improved from 2024. At the same time, policy changes narrowed tax-credit timelines, added permitting pressure for some projects, and reduced the certainty that developers had relied on after the Inflation Reduction Act.
The useful reading is not that federal policy stopped clean power development in 2025.… Read the rest
GEB Software Testing in Las Vegas Buildings
GEB Software Testing in Las Vegas has moved beyond a laboratory concept and into occupied commercial and federal buildings. The clearest documented case is the Foley Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, where the U.S. General Services Administration Green Proving Ground partnered with the National Laboratory of the Rockies to field validate a grid-interactive efficient building software solution. The evidence available as of September 22, 2026 supports a cautious reading: the project tested a real software approach in a real building, but the public research notes do not provide full quantified savings for Foley.… Read the rest
Retrofit Energy Savings Models In Los Angeles
Retrofit Energy Savings in Los Angeles are no longer being discussed only as equipment-level improvements. Recent modeling and demonstration work has connected building upgrades with electricity use, peak demand, anthropogenic heat, indoor heat stress, and life-cycle cost. The evidence remains uneven across building types, but the strongest studies point to a consistent pattern: retrofit design choices matter, and packages chosen only for energy savings may miss measurable urban-cooling benefits.
For a waste management and sustainable-building perspective, the Los Angeles research is useful because it focuses on existing buildings.… Read the rest
Data Center Energy Rules And Clean Grid Risk
The EPA’s May 11, 2026 proposal on data center energy infrastructure did not approve new emissions by itself, but it changed a key permitting question: what project work can begin before a major air-emissions permit is secured. The agency proposed redefining “Begin Actual Construction” under the Clean Air Act so that data centers, gas plants, and factories could build non-emitting components such as wiring, cement pads, and piping before receiving major air permits, according to the EPA proposal.… Read the rest
Clean Energy Additions Set 2026 Capacity Test
As of September 14, 2026, clean energy additions planned for the year point to a record-setting period for U.S. power-sector construction, led by solar and battery storage. The data should be read with care: planned capacity is not the same as completed capacity, and the power-system effect depends on interconnection, permitting, market conditions, and how reliably new resources operate once connected.
The near-term signal is still significant. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that developers plan to add 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale electric generating capacity in 2026, which would be a record if realized.… Read the rest