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California Moves to Tackle Another Big Emissions Source: Fossil Fuel Use in Buildings

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California's funding is "an important step forward, but it’s only a piece of what’s needed," said Pierre Delforge, building decarbonization senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). NRDC’s Delforge said the SGIP HPWH incentive program is expected to be online by the end of 2020.

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California Nears Tipping Point on All-Electric Regulations for New Buildings

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“The letters that you are seeing are basically trying to set the stage and influence that process,” Pierre Delforge, a building decarbonization expert who tracks the proceeding for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview. “We need to find a recipe. And the recipe isn’t clear yet.”

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Debate on California All-Electric New Buildings is Coming to a Head

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The CEC has proposed compliance credits for all-electric building, which could encourage more builders to adopt it, Pierre Delforge, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview. But that alone may not be enough, he said.

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Heat Pumps & Efficiency — Key Solutions To Texas’ Electricity Woes

CleanTechnica

By Alejandra Mejia Cunningham & Pierre Delforge As Texans continue to grapple with the devastation from recent winter storms, it is becoming increasingly clear that the failure of the state’s electric system was caused as much by an exceptional surge in demand for power as it was by a failure of power plants that weren’t equipped to handle the (..)