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Santa Cruz Natural Gas Ban

Natural Gas Bans in New Buildings
Local Governments
All construction permit applications for new buildings in the city must submit a declaration that their design is “Natural Gas-Free.”

RAP Report, Principle of Smart Heat Electrification

Improving State and Local Building Energy Codes, Energy Efficiency Mandates, Gas Quality Standards
States and State Governments, Local Governments
Surveys policies that impact smart heat electrification, including electricity pricing, energy efficiency obligations, carbon intensity standards, financial support schemes, building codes, appliance standards, and labeling. 

RAP report, Electric Cost Allocation for a New Era

Reducing Fixed Electricity Charges, Rate Restructuring, Grid Modernization, and Utility Reform
State Public Utility Commissions, Public Utilities
Focuses on cost allocation practices for electric utilities and their implications, acknowledging that charting a new path on cost allocation is an important part of creating the fair, efficient and clean electric system of the future.

Report, Implementing TCFD: Strategies for Enhancing Disclosure

Stranded Assets and Climate Disclosures
Private Entities
Focuses on translating information from global climate and energy transition scenario analyses into company-level financial insights, as well as helping companies assess and disclose the risks and opportunities related to climate change.

Maine’s Distributed Generation Procurement Program

Financial Incentives for Installation of Distributed Energy Resources, Community Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures
State Public Utility Commissions, Private Entities
2019 law requires the PUC to procure 250 MW of Shared DG projects and 125 MW of Commercial and Institutional DG projects through a series of competitive solicitations.

Get Food Smart Tennessee

Food Waste
States and State Governments
State-run program coordinating with restaurants, schools, governments, non-profits, grocers, agriculture, and industry to reduce food waste.

Report, Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry

Reports on Industrial Efficiency Generally
Congress, States and State Governments
Develops a blueprint to help action policymakers and businesses address the inter-connected concerns of innovation, technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, an enabling policy environment, and the need for social equity.