Thermal Energy Networks Webinar

Join us for a webinar on the new Thermal Energy Networks: A Legislative Guidebook—a resource for states, cities, and utilities advancing neighborhood-scale clean heating and cooling.

Heating and cooling buildings makes up 43% of U.S. energy use. To cut emissions, states are passing laws to enable thermal energy networks (TENs): water-filled pipe systems that deliver heating and cooling without combustion. Eight states have already passed TENs legislation, and more are following suit.

Hosted by Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment and the Building Decarbonization Coalition, this webinar will introduce the guidebook and key lessons from recent TENs laws. We will discuss:

• What are TENs, and why enable them?
• How can legislation ensure TENs are equitable, affordable, and effective?
• What is needed for a system-wide transition to clean heating and cooling?

Speakers:

Lawrence Garber, Interim Associate Director of Policy Acceleration, Building Decarbonization Coalition
Eduardo Nicolás Otero Bakai, Global Energy Fellow, Institute for Energy and the Environment
Moderator: Ana Maria (Ania) Camargo Cortes, Associate Director, Thermal Networks, Building Decarbonization Coalition
Host: Mark James, Interim Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment