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What does it mean to “go electric”?

Electrification or “going electric” means replacing appliances that use fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) with ones that use electricity.

Replacing your gas-powered car with an electric vehicle and replacing your propane-powered furnace with a heat pump are both examples of electrification.

Featured

Breathe easy

In our new health impacts report, we dive into how upgrading our appliances will improve outdoor air quality, strengthen the health of our communities, and lead to $40 billion in health benefits every year.

Watt’s new

How residential upgrades can help our grid

Learn which states could cut electricity demand by half with home upgrades supported by tax credits.

Savings

Analysis

Help us defend the home energy tax credits

Let your Senator know you want lower bills, new jobs, and a stronger grid.

Inflation Reduction Act

Analysis

White vector map illustration of the United States with Alaska, Utah, Kansas, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maine highlighted in purple all on a yellow background.

Cutting home-energy tax credits would hurt households, kill jobs, and strain the grid

What does the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (25C) and Residential Clean Energy Credit (25D) mean for American families and local economies?

Inflation Reduction Act

Analysis

All-electric 'hoods may be future-proof

A growing number of housing developments are foregoing conventional fuel technology — and building climate resilience.

Electrify everything

Story

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Tour a beautiful electrified CA bungalow

Rewiring’s own Cora Wyent takes us inside her home’s electric transformation.

Savings

Story

Homeowners and their contractors count on 25C

This tax credit is vital for both home improvement and for small business growth.

Savings

Analysis

Artist turns tiny home into go-electric gallery

This 1,000 square-foot California home is packed with futuristic art — and home appliances.

Heat pumps

Story

Atlanta! Let's get ready to amplify!

Amplifiers: Atlanta is a two-day training program to connect local leaders and content creators and spark clean energy action.

Clean energy transition

Story

This tax credit is an essential tool to help meet growing energy demand

A new Rewiring America analysis shows how the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Tax Credit (25C) can reduce peak demand and free up additional capacity equivalent to hundreds of energy-intensive data centers.

Grid

Analysis

Bay Staters! There’s a new tool for you!

Mass residents can now find all the utility, state, and federal programs available to lower energy bills and upgrade to energy-saving home appliances by searching for the Massachusetts Energy Savings Finder.

Costs

Press release

White outlined photo of Cathy, who is smiling, wears glasses, has curled white hair, and wears a square neck printed floral top. Her photo is on top of an image of her house, which is painted green and purple-magenta on the exterior.

Cleveland nurse living the ‘electric dream’

Cathy remade her 105-year-old home, her life, and career, one switch at a time.

EVs

Story

Yay us! Rewiring America wins prestigious innovation award.

Media org Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 shaping industry and culture highlights Rewiring America’s work.

Rewiring America

Press release

White outlined photo of Monquale Owsley in front of a solar inverter. He is smiling at the camera, has gray facial hair, is wearing a light blue hoodie and safety glasses on the top of his head.

No solar panel problem too big for this engineer to solve

Monquale Owsley can diagnose a malfunctioning solar panel from the other end of a phone.

Solar

Story

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The small but mighty federal tax credit that supports 240,000 jobs nationwide

A new Rewiring America analysis shows how the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Tax Credit drives consumer demand critical to supporting domestic jobs.

Jobs

Analysis

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An Army vet takes on a fresh challenge: heat pumps!

An innovative training program helped Ryan Smith learn in-demand HVAC skills and make the jump to civilian life.

Heat pumps

Story

This fifth-generation Iowa farmer’s electric home renovation is a labor of love

Corn and soy farmer Sam grew up learning how to problem-solve through experimentation, patience, and plenty of elbow grease.

Health

Story

How heat pumps became America’s hottest home energy system

The efficient heating and cooling system keeps outselling gas furnaces.

Heat pumps

Story

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Real People Saying Real Things

We’d like to introduce you to our new series and the ordinary Americans who are changing lives (including their own) by electrifying everything.

Electrify everything

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This guy wants to sell you an (electric) house

One charismatic Atlanta real estate agent is making sure his clients know about the money- and health-saving benefits of electric appliances.

Induction cooking

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The Rewiring America API

Free, open access to our data and models to help you build the case for electrification.

Photo of a woman in a restaurant kitchen looking at the camera, with short brown hair, a ping sweater, a linen apron and a smile.

Soup’s On! With Amanda Cohen

Savor some slow-cooked soup made on a portable induction cooktop with award-winning NYC chef Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy.

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How working in solar energy changed one mom's life for the better

Alison Dempsey has overseen more than 2,000 installs during her time at Solar Holler, West Virginia’s largest solar panel installation company.

Solar

Story

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Bird on a wire: A comic about fighting the climate crisis

Percy the pigeon and his friends share five key decisions to better (electric) living.

Electrify everything

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Doctor in the house: one physician's exceedingly healthy home

Rewiring America advisor Gaurab Basu takes us on a tour of his family’s electrified Boston abode.

Electrify everything

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Pie chart with the text '42% of the US's energy-related emissions come from our homes and vehicles' in the center. The right side of the pie chart has 3 photos showing a house, stovetop, and truck. The background is yellow with faint smoke.

We talk about heat pumps alot.

We talk about heat pumps alot.

Lawn and garden equipment in the U.S. produces 30 million tons of carbon dioxide every year — as much as all private cars while idling. Source: EPA, EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, 2020 National Emissions Inventory (NEI) Data

Stories

“When I was a little boy, it wasn’t this hot.”

Stanley, a DeSoto, Georgia resident, talks about the immediate impact of adding a heat pump to his home.