Participating cities will leverage AI, finance, and workforce development to race to net zero at city-scale
BlocPower, a national climate tech company focused on totally decarbonizing American cities, today announced the launch of its "Race to Decarbonize". With buildings contributing to 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions and transportation contributing 14%, this race brings together sustainability leaders to deploy clean technologies that will decarbonize buildings and transportation systems to lead the global race to net zero. BlocPower’s new AI model provides free and customized plans for each of the 125 million existing buildings in America to decarbonize.
The Race to Decarbonize includes knowledge-sharing across data, strategies, inputs, and results at a national scale. BlocPower will help cities execute decarbonization by encouraging widespread installation of electric systems to replace fossil fuel equipment with EV charging, heat pumps, electric stoves, electric hot water heating systems, solar, batteries, and other technologies. Through these upgrades, cities, building owners and residents will take their buildings and transportation systems to net zero.
City leaders will join regular virtual convenings to share resources, best practices, and provide updates on which city is winning the race to net zero. Sustainability champions from each city will receive guidance, advice, support, and BlocPower’s AI tools to implement decarbonization at city-scale. The first convening will take place on August 13 and focus on bringing equitable EV charging to cities.
“We are in a race for our lives, and our children’s lives. We simply cannot meet the challenge of the climate catastrophe without decarbonizing buildings. By connecting city leaders racing to net zero across the country, we will speed up the knowledge transfer needed to make massive greenhouse gas emissions reductions in dozens of American cities,” said Donnel Baird, CEO & Founder, BlocPower. “Along with our partners, we are taking collective action towards electrifying each neighborhood in our country block by block, improving community health, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and meeting our climate goals along the way.”
Since 2014, BlocPower has worked to create smarter, greener and healthier homes, buildings, and communities. BlocPower supports building owners through the entire upgrade process from analysis and design to financing to installation and maintenance. BlocPower’s new generative AI model provides decarbonization recommendations for taking every single building in America to net zero.
About BlocPower
BlocPower is a national climate technology company rapidly greening American cities. Since its founding in 2014, the company has completed energy efficiency projects in over 1100 buildings with 4000 families nationwide. BlocPower utilizes its proprietary BlocMaps software platform to help municipalities, utility companies, and sustainability experts plan, manage, finance and implement equitable decarbonization strategies. The company is backed by some of the world’s top investors, including Goldman Sachs, Kapor Capital, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce. https://blocpower.io.
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