Full Title: The Building Electrification Technology Roadmap (BETR)
Author(s): Alexi Miller, Cathy Higgins
Publisher(s): New Buildings Institute, Building Decarbonization Initiative
Publication Date: January 12, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
The Building Electrification Technology Roadmap (BETR) is a guide for utilities and other organizations developing, implementing, and supporting electrification technology programs as a way to advance high efficiency technologies, reduce GHG emissions, and improve public health. It’s the first study to characterize the industry status of a comprehensive set of electrification technologies that replace traditional combustion technologies, site barriers to adoption, and the road to accelerate adoption. Although developed and written to guide efficiency programs, the recommended actions can also inform manufacturers, the design community, owners, and policymakers.
The full BETR roadmap has layers of detailed information by technology in narrative, tables and images, and the key roadblocks and recommendations charts for each end use. The report characterizes the technology readiness, product availability, ease of application, market awareness, and greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials of these ready and available technologies as well as selected emerging and international technologies. These include applications for single family, multifamily, small commercial, large commercial, and higher education/institutional building types.