When community-led researchers bring air-quality monitors into the kitchens, basements, and living rooms, the abstract problem of emissions crystallizes into something personal and urgent. More on the importance of citizen science and gas stove pollution: cheaperheat.substack.com/p/intimate-a...

How have gas system failures (leaks, explosions, and everything in between) been normalized as "socially acceptable" risks of the system, which inevitably have to be absorbed by "someone"? cheaperheat.substack.com/p/when-the-g...

This week’s post on Cheaper Heat continues on from last week’s to trace the geographies of risk across the gas system to illuminate how the concentration of those risks in certain communities allows for the illusion of cheap heat elsewhere. ▶️ cheaperheat.substack.com/p/from-frack...

How do our energy systems carve new geographies of risk through our communities? My new post on Cheaper Heat explores how each part of the gas system shifts, concentrates, and normalizes risk, unevenly distributing the true costs of “cheap” energy. ➡️ cheaperheat.substack.com/p/geographie...

Geothermal networks are breaking new ground in Massachusetts. Could legislation setting up a new kind of utility help them take off around the nation? https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/geothermal-networks-new-utility-model

New post up on Cheaper Heat. Q: What's haunting our energy system? A: the ghost of investments and policies past More about the afterlives of gas infrastructure here: cheaperheat.substack.com/p/the-afterl...

April 2026 belongs in the clean energy history books. It’s the first time wind and solar power around the world combined to beat gas over a whole month. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/wind-solar-outgenerate-gas-april

Our energy affordability crisis has a hidden driver: utilities spending billions on gas pipelines. But, as @kgeorgebagdanov.bsky.social and @panamaredhat.bsky.social tell @volts.wtf, states are increasingly implementing policies to transition us away from gas to affordable clean heat and cooling.

It was great chatting with @volts.wtf about the complex topic of the managed gas transition. There’s a lot to do but there are also a lot of great advocates, communities, and policymakers working hard on solutions. @buildingdecarb.org

What do a Marvel movie, a Shakespearean sonnet, and a utility bill have in common? Read my latest post on Cheaper Heat to find out! cheaperheat.substack.com/p/utility-bi...

Three sectors. One chart. Three very different stories. Buildings: 33% electrified in 1990 → 47% today. Industry: 31% → 33%. Barely moved. Transport: ~1% then, ~1% now. The 23% headline hides three transitions at radically different speeds. Long read coming on Substack: janrosenow.substack.com

I just launched my newsletter "Cheaper Heat," which is based on the premise that energy has never really been “cheap,” but it could actually be affordable. Check out the first post here: cheaperheat.substack.com/p/cheaper-he...

According to a new report, one in five homes in the U.S. is heated primarily with space heaters. Replacing those devices with heat pumps could save households an average of $1,530 a year, or $20 billion annually across the country. https://bit.ly/4d6iUA0

I'm starting a substack! Cheaper Heat is a newsletter about why heat has never really been cheap, and what it would take to make it affordable, clean, and just. Subscribe today to get the first post as soon as it launches: cheaperheat.substack.com/p/coming-soon

In 2025, renewable electricity generated MORE THAN coal for the first time in over 100 years 📈 Driven by RECORD solar, renewable share surpassed a THIRD of global power generation ☀️ ember-energy.org/lat... #GER2026

Winter heat pump rates saved Massachusetts residents $37 million this season. Will the program spread to New York and Rhode Island? https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/winter-rates-massachusetts-heat-pump-owners

MD’s Utility RELIEF Act will help lower energy bills, create jobs & reduce pollution by including +$72M for #HeatPump and other home energy upgrades in MD's FY27 budget & explicitly authorizing the Strategic Energy Investment Fund to fund #BuildingElectrification programs. #EnergySky bit.ly/485Kn30