What’s The Buzz: An AMPED Blog
Hospitals to Hotels: The Versatility of Electric HVAC (4/4)
Today’s consumers want the satisfaction of a night or two away without having to stomach the guilt of wasteful, unsustainable hospitality practices. Electric HVAC is a major way hotels can pollute less, and take positive action to safeguard our region’s air and water.
Hospitals to Hotels: The Versatility of Electric HVAC (3/4)
If you’ve ever heard of Lean, Six Sigma, or Kaizen, you know that efficiency is a manufacturing imperative, and businesses want to find ways to stand out from the crowd in order to stay ahead of the competition. Balancing these priorities is a delicate dance, but strategically adopting electric HVAC is one way to check all the boxes.
Hospitals to Hotels: The Versatility of Electric HVAC (2/4)
For cultural institutions, museums, and art galleries, maintaining specific temperatures and humidity levels is more than a nice-to-have; electric HVAC can be an ideal solution.
Hospitals to Hotels: The Versatility of Electric HVAC (1/4)
Hospitals have the daunting task of providing top-quality patient care in an increasingly challenging healthcare landscape, without losing sight of the bottom line. Electric HVAC options like air-source or geothermal heat pumps thrive at that intersection.
EmPOWERing Spaces: The Essentials of Building Electrification
We can save money, save energy, and invest in future generations by becoming an all-electric community. Whether you care about a resilient economy, public health, lower utility bills, sustainable businesses, or quality housing - there’s something to gain from going all-electric.
You Asked - We Answer: Electric Grid Expanded Q&A
Expanded Q&A from the January Webinar: modernizing the grid to support electrification.
Rochester’s Hotel Cadillac to Become All-Electric Affordable Housing
Hotel Cadillac is being transformed into the all-electric Fine Arts Building Lofts
New Year, New You
Let your 2023 resolution be around taking bold action that is good for your business, and our planet.
AMPED Initiative Wins W.B. Potter Founder’s Award!
The W.B. Potter Founder’s Award at Causewave's Annual Celebration recognizes a coalition that has brought to life a results-oriented, collaborative initiative that fills a community need. And this year, it went to the AMPED: Go All Electric initiative!
AMPED celebrates first year at energy efficient downtown building!
AMPED turned 1 with community change-makers gathered in a downtown building being revitalized to use carbon-free electricity and high-efficiency technology.
What you need to know about the Inflation Reduction Act
Historic legislation in the fight against climate change was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug 16th, find out what’s inside this bill.
Give up my AC? Only for a heat pump.
Efficient and full of cooling power, electric heat pumps can lower your home’s temps while they lower your costs
Electrifying Buildings: 5 Myths
We’re busting 5 common myths about electrifying buildings that might convert any reader to a heat pump advocate by the end.
What Clean Power Means to Energy Security
Call it energy security or energy independence, but we’re more aware than ever that the sources of our power matter. The good news? A combination of locally produced and clean electricity put Western New York in a position to seize a more secure future.
4 Ways to Break Up with Gas this Valentine’s Day
It’s 2022, and you’ve been dreaming of kicking fossil fuels to the curb for years. This Valentine’s Day, pick one of these 4 activities to set your breakup with gas in motion.
7 Climate Initiatives to Get AMPED About from the State of the State Address
Governor Hochul’s State of the State address proposes unprecedented commitments to green infrastructure. Here are 7 highlights from the plan and thoughts on how they can impact our region.
A Growth Year for Building Electrification and Equity Considerations
Cities from Denver to Ithaca get applause for decarbonization progress, but a focus on equity is needed to decrease emissions without worsening housing affordability.
Decarbonizing Every Single Building: Ithaca Is Leading the Way
In November, 2021 the city of Ithaca, N.Y., took a bold step forward in their climate action plan by voting to electrify and decarbonize its buildings, a first of its kind in the nation.
Get AMPED Forum: Getting Started Electrifying Your Building - Energy Studies, Incentives, and Financing
The October 2021 Get AMPED Webinar focused on learning how to take steps to electrify your building and help pay for it. You can watch the recording to continue the learning any time.