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• Morning Brew looks at how Ithaca, NY is planning to decarbonize their buildings by 2030, in accordance with their own ‘Green Deal’ put into effect in 2019.
• The plan, known as ‘Energy Efficiency Retrofitting and Thermal Load Electrification’, is based on a two headed approach.
  1. Brooklyn-based BlocPower will be in charge of the changeover from legacy power generation and storage in residential areas.
  2. Boston-based Alturus will handle commercial buildings.
• BlocPower is replacing heat pumps, and appliances like dryers, furnaces, and natural-gas stoves with electric ones, as well as weathering homes to prevent heat/cooling leakage.
• Alturus audits commercial enterprises, finds ways to cost-effectively convert them to renewable energy.
• The article dives into how they are shifting over to more efficient forms of power, and how this will ultimately be more affordable in the longrun.

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Ithaca wants to decarbonize all of its buildings by 2030-here's how it will work