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Maine Utility Seeks Surcharge for Renewables
Central Maine Power asks regulators for permission to impose a ‘standby charge’ for customers who generate some of their own power
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Passivhaus on Spec in Boston
The design-build firm Placetailor has sold a single-family Passivhaus in the city's Roxbury neighborhood
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Website Targets LEED Program
A well-known Washington lawyer is apparently behind the campaign to discredit the USGBC’s building-rating system
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New Web Tool Compares Energy Performance
NREL’s new Technology Performance Exchange is designed to help consumers get energy performance data for building products
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Maine Will Host North American Passivhaus Conference
Passivhaus founder Dr. Wolfgang Feist will deliver the keynote address in Portland, Maine, in September
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Looking for Common Ground in the Solar Debate
A utility group and a major environmental organization issue a joint appeal to regulators to balance utilities’ financial needs with efforts to encourage PV installations
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Habitat’s New Net-Zero House in Minneapolis
University architecture students have designed a house with 8 inches of extruded polystyrene insulation on the exterior side of the wall sheathing
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Toronto Hosts Energy Conference in April
A scientist who was on the Nobel-Prize-winning U.N. climate change panel will deliver the keynote address
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Two Builders Will Share Top Connecticut Prize
Lehto Design/Build and Wolfworks win the CT Zero Energy Challenge, a competition that honors energy efficiency and low environmental impact
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Tiny Houses Replace Tents for Homeless
In Olympia, Washington, one-time tent dwellers take up residence in 144-square-foot houses they can call home