Episode Details

Researchers from MIT recently published a paper detailing all of the great benefits that would come from passing the BIG WIRES Act, and researchers from Vanderbilt published a study about the big role household electrification and efficiency will play in realizing the Inflation Reduction Act's climate pollution reductions potential. We also received an update about the status of the IRA's important home electrification and efficiency rebate programs that have been in development for the past year and a half. Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will summarize all of this new information that's critical to CCL's clean energy permitting reform and building electrification & efficiency policy areas.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

• (0:00) Intro & Agenda
• (2:25) Why Clean Energy Permitting Reform Is Essential
• (9:00) Problems To Solve w/ the BIG WIRES Act
• (18:28) MIT’s Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act Study
• (35:00) Incentivizing Household Action Study- Up to 40% of Emissions Reduction from the IRA

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/BIG-WIRES-updates-slides 
CCL Community Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/15092 
MIT’s Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act Study: https://ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MIT-CEEPR-RC-2024-01.pdf  
Incentivizing Household Action Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421524000120?via%3Dihub#abs0015