While plenty of opportunity remains for states to generate energy and cost savings from traditional appliance standards, the availability of new technologies and improved controls allows states to look to new opportunities for firm savings.

At 2050 Partners, we understand that codes and standards are among the most cost-effective tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering energy bills, and bolstering grid resilience.

Appliance efficiency standards are regulations that mandate a minimum level of efficiency or a maximum amount of energy or water use for various household and commercial appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, or laundry machines.

The 2025 DTECH: Data Centers & AI Conference (DTECH) brought together utilities, developers, and infrastructure professionals to discuss a salient and pressing challenge: how to plan for and provide scalable energy solutions to meet exploding electricity demand at data centers.

Learn how right-sizing heat pump water heaters boosts building decarbonization and improves plumbing codes with real-world data from 2050 Partners.

UPC Appendix M, otherwise known as the Water Demand Calculator (WDC), provides a modernized method for accurately (but conservatively) estimating the peak demand of the building water supply and principal branches for single- and multi-family dwellings.

Learn how right-sizing heat pump water heaters boosts building decarbonization and improves plumbing codes with real-world data from 2050 Partners.

Revolutionizing motor efficiency standards. Discover how collaborative research is driving innovation and shaping the future of energy conservation.

Originally presented at the the ET Summit, Senior Consultant, Maya Gantley, unpacks the usage patterns in heat pump water heaters (HPWH) widely used in commercial kitchens and how this may be a roadblock to California’s ambitious decarbonization goals. Read her breakdown.

This article explores the potential of DC power, the hurdles to its adoption, and the critical steps needed to bridge the gap in our codes and standards. It is based recommendations from Jim Frey’s presentation at the Electrify Smart DC-Powered Buildings conference, titled “Enabling Efficiency: Closing Gaps in Codes & Standards.”