Advanced Praise for Clean Electricity

Submitted by: Charles Eley
on Thu, 08/25/2022 - 18:36

The transition to carbon-free energy won’t depend primarily - or even mostly - on energy experts. Of course, we need highly educated technologists and planners to get there. But it’s people – lots of people! - from all walks of life, across every stratum of our society, who will make the billions of decisions that all together will produce our clean energy future. It is for them that Charles Eley, drawing from his decades of leadership on energy efficiency and sustainable buildings, has created this volume.

Carbon Dioxide Emission Rates

Submitted by: Charles Eley
on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 00:00

ASHRAE has published carbon dioxide emission rates and source energy conversion factors for fuels used in buildings and for electricity use in each of the 26 EPA eGRID subregions. The updated figures result from a couple of years of work by Working Group 7.5 of Standard 189.1, which I chair. These data will be published in the 2020 release of Standard 189.1 and will become part of the 2021 update to the International Green Construction Code (IgCC). The source enrgy conversion factors take account of the increased renewable energy on the U.S.

2022 ZERO Code for California

Submitted by: Charles Eley
on Fri, 08/28/2020 - 23:43

I'm proud to annouce that the next version of Architecture 2030's ZERO Code for California is published on their website. Click here. I was the primary author of this document, as a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030. We are now working with AIA California to promote its adoption by local governments. It is also being proposed as an addition to the CalGreen, the green building code for California.

Book Released

Submitted by: Charles Eley
on Tue, 11/01/2016 - 16:02

Clean Electricity, A practical path to zero-carbon buildings

This book is available from Amazon in both a paperback and eBook format. Click here to order.

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