📖 In celebration of #HeatPumpWeekCA, The Clean Green Neighborhood is 10% off! Now through April 19, use code HPWEEK26, and take home your copy today (link in bio).
🌱 Want to learn how neighborhoods can share energy affordably?
The bilingual book is about sharing energy, building power, and the union workers helping create resilient, all-electric communities.
#TheCleanGreenNeighborhood
📣 BDC’s Momentum Q1 | 2026 report is now available, with new data and other insights on how heat pump market momentum and rising gas costs are reshaping what households pay for energy.
Highlights from this quarter’s report include:
📈 Market momentum: Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces for the fourth year in a row in 2025 and outsold air conditioners for the first time ever in September 2025.
💲 Gas system costs and affordability: In 2025, gas bills rose 60% faster than electric bills, and four times faster than the rate of inflation. Gas utility spending on distribution infrastructure has also more than tripled since 2010.
➡️ Utility regulation and the shift away from gas expansion: States are beginning to unwind financial incentives for new gas expansion by eliminating gas line extension subsidies.
⚡ State action to scale equitable electrification: Minnesota, California, Massachusetts, New York, and other states are launching or considering new policies to accelerate their transitions to affordable, clean heat and cooling.
Visit the link in our bio to read the full report.
#BuildingDecarb #HeatPump #ThermalEnergyNetwork
📖 How do you build a clean green neighborhood—on the page?
You’ve read The Clean Green Neighborhood, our bilingual English-Spanish children’s book that tells the story of union workers building resilient, all-electric communities for their friends and family.
At the link in our bio, you can now read our new behind-the-scenes blog about how the story came together. Author @kristingeorgeb and illustrator @mindfulnicole discuss:
🎨 How their creative vision was shaped by the oversight of six labor union locals
📊 Why writing a children’s book is very different from a technical report
🏗️ The real-world neighborhood-scale decarbonization projects that served as inspiration.
See you in the clean green neighborhood!
#TheCleanGreenNeighborhood
Workers who build #ThermalEnergyNetworks install high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes in trenches. Once operational, the pipes move warm water from building to building, where #HeatPumps extract thermal energy to warm a space.
But how long do these systems last? Well, as Derek Kobe of Green Built Construction explains, “This pipe is going to last 100 years.”
⛰️In this #ThermalEnergyThursday video, we’re in Hayden, Colorado, where Bedrock Energy and the Town of Hayden are building a business park that will be heated and cooled by a thermal energy network — bringing new jobs and economic growth after the local coal plant closed.
➡️ Learn more about the benefits of TENs at the link in our bio.
Huge thanks to Bedrock and Hayden for letting us share your project! 🙌
🎥 Film by @morningpeopleprod
During periods of peak electric demand, utilities and their customers must pay top dollar for energy. This #ThermalEnergyThursday, Joselyn Lai, CEO of Bedrock Energy, and Boyd Lee, founder Outside the Box Geo, explain – from their own experiences – how geothermal heat pumps and thermal energy networks can remove costly peak strain for businesses, homeowners, and the utility itself.
#EnergyAffordability #ThermalEnergyNetworks #Geothermal
🎥 Film by @morningpeopleprod
“There’s no question it’s in the best interest of any utility to take on a geothermal program.”
Boyd Lee, owner of Outside the Box Geo, knows what he is talking about. During his years working for electric cooperative utilities in Oklahoma, he pioneered a ground-source heat pump installation program for co-op members. The heat pumps were so efficient that their performance benefitted all members’ electricity rates, whether they had installed a heat pump or not. 💰
Want to hear more about Boyd’s program? Subscribe to our newsletter to read an upcoming case study explaining how geothermal heat pumps prevented rate increases for co-op members.
#ThermalEnergyThursday #Geothermal #HeatPumps
🎥 Film by @morningpeopleprod
🎓 Colorado Mesa University built one of the country’s first modern thermal energy networks, using an ambient-temperature pipe loop that draws clean thermal energy from geothermal boreholes. This heating and cooling system has proven to be so cost-effective that it has helped suppress tuition hikes:
🧾The University estimates that tuition would be 2% higher today were it not for this hyper-efficient heating and cooling system.
❔What could your institution, community, business, or municipality do with those operational #heating and #cooling savings?
#ThermalEnergyNetworks #ThermalEnergyThursday #EnergyAffordability
The knowledge of prior oil and gas workers is leading the way for this thermal energy network in Colorado. Fernando Aguilera, Operations Lead, Bedrock Energy, explains in this video. 🍿
Thermal energy networks (TENs) and geothermal heating and cooling draw from a wide array of skills that exist in the oil and gas industries, like drilling, trenching, and pipelaying. Existing workers’ safety mindsets and expertise are a boon to decarbonizing buildings at scale, and in turn, TENs and neighborhood-scale geothermal heat pumps provide new job opportunities in a growing industry.
⛰️This discussion was filmed in Hayden, Colorado, where Bedrock Energy and the Town of Hayden are building a new business park heated and cooled by ambient #geothermal, providing energy resiliency to a rural mountain community.
🎥 Film by @MorningPeopleProd
#ThermalEnergyThursday #EnergyTransition
Geothermal heat pump drillers make good neighbors. Brock Yordy, a third-generation driller and Co-Founder of the Geothermal Drillers Association, shares how drillers working on thermal energy networks put a community’s health, safety, and environment first. 🦺 🌱
⛰️ The video was filmed on-site in Hayden, Colorado, where Bedrock Energy and the Town of Hayden are building a new business park heated and cooled by a thermal energy network, supporting economic redevelopment after the closure of a coal-fired power plant.
#ThermalEnergyThursday #BuildingDecarbonization
🎥 Film by @morningpeopleprod
Happy holidays from all of us at the Building Decarbonization Coalition! As we wrap up the year and head into the holidays, let’s take a peek at the key insights that defined 2025 - a year shaped by affordability.
📃Utility Bills: Gas bills have risen more than twice as fast as electric bills, outpacing the rate of overall inflation by almost 400%.
💲Infrastructure Spending: About 66% of household gas bills went to infrastructure.
⚡The Grid: Nearly 93% of new power capacity came from renewables, making electricity cleaner and more affordable.
🏡Homes and Buildings: Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces for the third year in a row with 90% of owners recommending them.
In 2026, we’ll be building on this work to ensure that policymakers and partners recognize that building decarbonization is an affordability solution.
Visit the link in our bio to explore more insights and trends.
#BuildingDecarb #BuildingDecarbonization #EnergyAffordability
We’re thinking about gifts this holiday season. Specifically, how thermal energy networks are a gift to the grid. 🎁⚡
Geothermal heat pumps and thermal energy networks tap energy right from the ground to heat and cool homes and buildings. This #ThermalEnergyThursday, Joselyn Lai, CEO of Bedrock Energy, explains why this makes buildings, cities, and our electric grid more resilient.
⛰️This discussion was filmed in Hayden, Colorado, where Bedrock Energy and the Town of Hayden are building a new business park heated and cooled by ambient geothermal, providing energy resiliency to a rural mountain community.
🎥Film by @MorningPeopleProd
#EnergyEfficiency #BuildingDecarbonization
🎁 Before we wrap up this year, 2025 deserves reflection and celebration.
Our 2025 Wrapped: Building Decarb Edition blog looks back at a year that showed how America can make energy more affordable with modern, energy-efficient all-electric buildings.
Let’s unwrap why energy-efficient homes and equipment are emerging as energy affordability winners, and some of the developments that moved America closer to a clean heating, cooling, and cooking future over the past year:
📈 In the past year, gas bills have risen more than twice as fast as electric bills, outpacing the rate of overall inflation by almost 400%.
🏗️ On average, 66% of our gas utility bills go toward infrastructure and not energy use.
💲 According to @nytimes , nearly 80% of American households can save on their energy bills right now by upgrading to heat pumps.
📃 States passed 41 bills advancing building decarbonization in 2025
💡 26 utility-led thermal energy network pilots are currently advancing through eight states.
⚡ The U.S. passed China to become the world's number one market for heat pumps this year and is also the world’s fastest-growing market for induction stoves.
Read the full 2025 Wrapped: Building Decarb Edition blog to learn more about why 2025 has been a defining year for the building decarbonization movement that can be punctuated by a keyword: affordability. (see bio for link)
#buildingdecarb #heatpump #energyaffordability #thermalenergynetwork #buildingdecarbonization #buildingelectrification
