🌞 interests: energy poverty, home performance, heat pumps & good jobs | 🌜interests: friendship, belonging, dignity, meaning | not here any more
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Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
HVAC contractors work in the nasty parts of homes. As did I as an insulation contractor.
The work needs to pay well or it won’t get done, or at least not done well.
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Want boots on the ground home electrification knowledge? And analysis of the challenge with hvac contractors?
Check out @akantamn and I’s Boundary Spanners podcast.
This is a wicked heavy lift!
bit.ly/BSpodSpotify
#electrifyeverything #HVAC
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
A Heat Pump Policy Thread:
What if we paid resi HVAC manufacturers ~$400 per AC they manufacture if they make all of their production heat pumps?
Currently US OEMs make ~5M ACs and ~3M heat pumps. What if they were all heat pumps?
This might only cost ~$10 billion over 4 yrs
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
This is a horrifying piece on #climate, dripping with contempt for poor people from developing countries. Aside from just being wrong, these malthusian arguments increasingly come from people who can't seem to stop talking about saving the planet.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
99% of the Indian population has access to electricity.
In 2000, this was just 59%. Even in 2010, just 76%.
A massive achievement over the last few decades.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/s…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Today's population density map is Canada.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
ALT A population density map of Canada
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Climate action updates from @cbcwhatonearth include federal support to help low-income Canadians access energy efficiency
Listen to @akantamn explain why it still isn't enough
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-4…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
We’re happy to share the official photo of the Supreme Court of Canada bench, taken on the occasion of Justice O’Bonsawin’s welcome ceremony.
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
In Ontario, the federal Greener Homes Initiative will be co-delivered by @enbridgegas starting 01/01/23. For the 1st time, Enbridge will incent fuel-switching through their DSM, adding up to $5k to the $5k provided by the GH Grant. ccASHPs get $6500, $1500 from the gas utility.
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Winter is here! People are turning their heat on and are going to get a shock on top of the rising cost of living
As @akantamn says - the best time to start the deep retrofits of low-income homes in Canada was 5 decades ago, the second best time is now!
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
In Canada, we are closing the Prime Minister's residence because neglected renovations now make it unsafe!
Did you know that in 2004 @NDP leader Jack Layton had a plan to upgrade the residence & get $1 B for energy efficiency in all homes? #cdnpoli
cbc.ca/news/politics/24-suss…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
JOB ALERT: @EfficiencyCAN is hiring a Communication Specialist. Apply by December 2, 2022 at jobs.discoveree.ca/job/75872…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Wait for it...
The atmosphere is a fluid by definition and sometimes it looks like a sea full of waves. The setting sun is the cherry on the top.
Outstanding timelapse from Tenerife, Spain 🇪🇸 by Tristan Heth
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Did you know DOE offers a Weatherization Assistance Program that works to help low-income households safely increase their home's energy efficiency to lower monthly and annual energy costs?
This #NationalWeatherizationDay, learn more from @eeregov: energy.gov/eere/wap/about-we…
ALT Graphic of a home with the text: Learn more about WEATHERIZATION and how it can improve your home
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
📢 If interested in the lived experience of #energypoverty, our report about Georgia (country) is available online. We used #video #ethnography, and the links to the produced videos are in the report.
fuelpovertyresearch.net/proj…
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
🎃 As a halloween treat, we have an EXTRA #Energy and #Climate seminar next week, with visiting speaker @runardas joining us in person from Canada! Please join us on MONDAY at 1pm in the usual places. Register here: bit.ly/3MDgZVF
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
2) This article by me and @akantamn published in @NatObserver explaining that low-income Canadians are left out of federal energy efficiency policy & how to design a program to fight inflation
nationalobserver.com/2022/10…