This U.S. city just voted to decarbonize every single building

Following a city council vote, Ithaca, New York is set to be the first city in the country to electrify its buildings with the help of BlocPower.

a founder of BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based company focused on “greening” aging buildings. Ithaca chose BlocPower to manage its initiative. Baird said the vote has marked a milestone.“To me, the hardest part is done,” he said. “The hardest part is finding the city with the courage to make the commitment.”Ithaca’s common council voted unanimously in favor of this latest move, which is part of the broader Green New Deal that.

The decarbonization effort is officially called the Efficiency Retrofit and Thermal Load Electrification Program. Building improvements could range from swapping natural gas and propane cooking stoves with electric induction cooktops to installing solar panels.Timur Dogan, a professor at Cornell University, which is located in Ithaca and is consulting with the city on the project, said researchers are working on modeling to help inform what buildings to tackle first.

The goal, Aguirre-Torres said, is to reach full building decarbonization by 2030 and have the first phase done in the next three years. Baird said that may take closer to four or five years but is certainly achievable. He pointed to BlocPower’s work in Brooklyn as proof, saying that the company retrofitted more than 1,000 apartments there in under two years.Dogan said the timeline is “ambitious” but is technically feasible.

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