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Charting a Pathway to Maryland’s Equitable Clean Energy Future

Charting a Pathway to Maryland’s Equitable Clean Energy Future

Full Title: Charting a Pathway to Maryland's Equitable Clean Energy Future
Author(s): Ashita Gona (RMI), Justin Barry (GHHI), Susan Miller (Earthjustice), Dorie Seavey, PhD, and Christopher Stix (Sierra Club)
Publisher(s): Earthjustice
Publication Date: January 24, 2023
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Description (excerpt):

Maryland has cast itself among the nation’s climate leaders through its passage of the Climate Solutions Now Act (CSNA) and a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal of 60 percent by 2031. Equitably electrifying the state’s building sector is a pillar to achieving the state’s climate goals and of CSNA.

This report begins by assessing four main sets of housing- and energy-related policies, programs, and opportunities that currently exist in Maryland, and identifies barriers to implementation and openings for improved collaboration. It then moves to explain an alternative scenario, where the current disparate programs are streamlined through a one-stop-shop whole-home retrofit program that addresses health and safety repairs, as well as energy and electrification upgrades. This report then lists significant state and federal opportunities for funding such a program—$2 billion in the next decade—and lists specific agencies and departments tentatively responsible for each funding stream. Finally, specific recommendations are presented for each branch of Maryland’s state government in order to create and fund a whole home retrofit program and reduce energy burdens on low-income Maryland households in the long-term.

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