Important reach code resources
- Local Energy Codes – A statewide program offering a wealth of resources, tools, and support to adopt reach codes
- List of Adopted Reach Codes – Learn about adopted reach codes in California
- Cost Effectiveness Explorer – Free tool to help build energy policies for buildings
Important ELECTRIFICATION resources
- AllElectricDesign.org – This free Electrification Technical Assistance Program provided by PCE and SVCE offers extensive technical assistance to architects, builders, developers, design engineers, contractors, and energy consultants to learn about all-electric building technologies and electric vehicle infrastructure.
- Switch is ON – Discover the power of an all-electric home with tools and resources to upgrade from gas to electric appliances.
- Regionally Integrated Climate Action Planning Support Program (RICAPS) – The 20 cities in San Mateo County and the County government are working together to plan and implement measures to reduce GHG emissions (mitigation), and to plan for climate change (adaptation). A working group of cities meets monthly and a countywide technical contractor supports the cities and the County by helping them develop climate action plans, GHG emission inventories, and by providing guidance on plan implementation.
Recent Research Studies
- Bay Area Air Quality Management District: Assessing Ambient Air Quality and Health Impacts from Natural Gas Building Appliances in the Bay Area (December 2022)
- Coalition for Clean Air: Southern California’s Hidden Air Pollution Problem: Gas Furnaces & Water Heaters (December 2024)
- Building Decarbonization Compass – The Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC) aligns critical stakeholders on a path to transform the nation’s buildings through clean energy, using policy, research, market development and public engagement.
- Redwood Energy – Redwood Energy has been electrifying homes since 2011, and is a partnership of Sean Armstrong, Michael Winkler and the 22 staff of Redwood Energy that are recruited from diverse backgrounds. They are a collaborative, innovative design firm that has worked on more than 400 all-electric, solar powered apartment complexes.
Litigation resources
- California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley (2019) – Learn about the specifics around the litigation against Berkeley’s Gas Ban ordinance. The codes developed by the Bay Area Reach Code team have a varying level of risk associated with adoption, but all were designed to address and meet the requirements of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) which the litigation claimed was preempted by Berkeley’s Gas Ban ordinance.
Learn more at the at the links below:
- Public Health Law Center: Gloom not Doom- The latest in the Berkeley decarbonization case (1/3/24)
- Climate Law Blog: Ninth Circuit Holds Berkeley’s Gas Ban Preempted by U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act (4/27/23)
- UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT OPINION: CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT ASS’N V. CITY OF BERKELEY
- Rinnai America Corp. v. South Coast Air Quality Management District (2024) – Trade associations representing home builders, manufacturers, hotels, apartments, and restaurants, as well as the pipefitters trade union, sued the South Coast Air Quality Management District (“SCAQMD”) in California, arguing that its newly adopted zero-emission nitrogen oxide (“NOx”) standard for water heaters is preempted by the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (“EPCA”).
