Affordable Home Energy Shot

As the eighth of the Energy Earthshots™, the Affordable Home Energy Shot was launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to decarbonize American homes and improve energy affordability nationwide. 

Over one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to America’s 130 million homes and commercial buildings, which use 38% of the nation’s energy and 74% of its electricity for power, heating, and cooling. DOE aims to reduce on-site energy use intensity in buildings 35% by 2035 and 50% by 2050 vs. 2005. 

The Affordable Home Energy Shot provides affordable, scalable solutions that can upgrade buildings of all types, reducing emissions from U.S. homes. 

The climate crisis calls for a different kind of moonshot. Energy Earthshots will accelerate breakthroughs of more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions within the decade.  They will drive the major innovation breakthroughs that we know we must achieve to solve the climate crisis, reach our 2050 net-zero carbon goals, and create the jobs of the new clean energy economy. The Energy Earthshots target the remaining solution points of the most challenging technical problems across our energy economy.