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As the White House announced last week, the work of our new electric coalition will see us reach more than 10 million households.

We must electrify one billion machines across 121 million households in the coming years. It’s an ambitious goal, making this the decade of electrification. Here's how the Inflation Reduction Act will help us achieve it.

The IRA is the most important climate legislation America has ever seen, but it won’t be the last. It’s the beginning of a better story.

The Inflation Reduction Act is monumental in its scope and the positive impact it will have on our communities, country and planet. And now it has passed the Senate and is on its way to the House of Representatives.

We are closer than we have ever been to the most significant climate legislation in our nation’s history. Yesterday’s news that Senator Sinema would support the Inflation Reduction Act was welcomed by so many people who have worked towards the passage of this bill for so long.

In the spirit of no time to waste, we put together our analysis of some key programs in the Inflation Reduction Act. An Electric Explainer, if you will. The climate investments are broken up into over 100 programs. Here we detail eleven of our favorites.

Panels in our homes are incredibly important to electrifying everything. If we do it the right way, we can upgrade the panels of households across the country, making our grid more efficient and resilient by treating the panel itself as a critical part of our grid infrastructure.

The Court is behind the times because the effect of its ruling will be an energy tax on American families that undermines our energy security here at home. Families today are rightly concerned about the effects of inflation: nine out of ten Americans raise it as an issue they discuss at their kitchen tables.

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Mr. Heat Pump!

You might think that being a net exporter of energy would make the U.S. “energy independent,” immune to the global changes in supply and demand of energy caused by geopolitical strife. You’d think we’d have enough energy to take care of our own domestic needs. But you would be wrong.

Moms make 80 percent of household financial decisions,” says Anne-Marie Kline, managing director of Science Moms. “They’re the ones we need to inform.” Currently, she says, awareness of electrification and its benefits – for the climate, for kids’ health, and for the pocketbook – is low.

When it comes to electrifying everything, the town of Burlington, Vermont has become a model for how to get it done.

We’ve been pumping up heat pumps for a while now, and more so in the wake of Russia’s illegal and tragic invasion of Ukraine. We see the pump's power as a tool for crushing fossil fuel demand.

Building a better America is a win-win-win.

On Wednesday, we took part in a press conference surrounded by the all-star team of the Congressional Electrification Caucus, including Senator Martin Heinrich, Senator Tina Smith, Representative Paul Tonko, Representative Kathy Castor, as well as Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston, and Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. We shared the stage to push for an acceleration of nationwide electrification.

Widespread electrification – and a fortified grid system to rely on in moments exactly like this – could have absolutely prevented this tragic event.

Joel Rosenberg’s Electrify Everything In Your Home is the nuts-and-bolts handbook for American households to electrify their homes and lives, from how they heat their homes and water, cook their food and dry their clothes to the cars they drive.

With winter rapidly approaching, the projected costs to heat our homes and fill up our cars are rising and more volatile. But what exactly should you expect?

We’re looking for a few hundred folks to spend about 15 minutes walking around their house photographing breaker boxes and furnaces and the like and uploading them into our questionnaire.

In Electrify, Saul lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment.

We're working to merge the Zero Emissions Home Act – which seeks to make household electrification easy & affordable through consumer rebates – with the Hope for Homes Act, which offers grants for training and rebates for energy efficiency.

At Rewiring America, we are radically optimistic, and if you signed up for this newsletter, so are you. So read on for silver linings.

We’re at a tipping point now -- but the good news is that we still have time to keep the earth’s atmosphere within livable limits if we follow one fairly simple path: electrify everything.

We’re excited to announce that Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) is planning to introduce new infrastructure legislation to help solve a critical piece of the climate puzzle.

We’re adding 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year, and we’ve got to stop. How? As we’ve pointed out, we don’t need a miracle, we just need to #electrifyeverything.

We’ve partnered with the Center for American Progress to propose new consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of electrified household appliances and breaker boxes.

We had a very big week here at Rewiring America, with events that are making us feel truly energized about our electrified future! We released a report with the CGC focused on delivering the benefits of household electrification to LMI families and partnered with Act Now.

To electrify everything, we need to start with households and the appliances in them, where we can solve for 42 percent of our energy-related emissions without moonshots or tradeoffs.

The intersection of climate progress and economic prosperity is at the heart of our work at Rewiring America, and we are thrilled that President Biden has put these issues front and center in his American Jobs Plan.

Last week we shared our new research, showing that in order to lower our carbon emissions enough to keep global warming within livable limits, we need to install or replace one billion machines to electrify our homes.

We’ve dug in to just how many machines we’d need to install or replace to accomplish our goal of zero emissions: One billion.

We thought we would take a look at how decarbonization would affect red and blue states differently, and who would gain from massive electrification. Spoiler: The answer is everyone wins.

We asked co-author Sam Calisch, MIT-trained engineer and energy nerd, to walk us through our latest report on household electrification savings.

We at Rewiring America are building a movement to confront climate through bold and concrete action.Our message is resonating: since our launch two months ago, the interest has been overwhelming.

In our very first newsletter, we talk through our handbook for climate action and outline pathways to success.