Through the Leading with Equity initiative, ACEEE researchers have synthesized perspectives from community-based organizations and advocates to provide recommendations to help city, state, and…
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Through the Leading with Equity initiative, ACEEE researchers have synthesized perspectives from community-based organizations and advocates to provide recommendations to help city, state, and utility decision makers advance an equitable energy future.
Communities of color and low-income communities face high energy burdens and barriers to accessing energy efficiency and clean energy services, while experiencing disproportionately high levels of pollution and living in inefficient housing. Providing robust, accessible energy-saving programs and services to such communities can help address these problems and advance an equitable energy future.
Drawing from The 2024 City Clean Energy Scorecard, this brief highlights several emerging strategies city governments are employing to advance equitable outcomes. We offer this brief as a resource for cities looking to increase the equity focus of their clean energy actions.
The commonwealth spends almost $11 billion a year buying energy from out of state. Mass Save lowers bills and keeps money at home.
Utility energy efficiency programs have increased investment in low-income households, but significant gaps remain. This report examines spending and savings trends across 48 major U.S. utilities, identifies barriers to expanding low-income programs and highlights policies and program strategies that can improve energy affordability and equitable access to efficiency upgrades.
The United States faces interlocking energy challenges: rising home energy bills and gasoline prices; new demand for electricity from data centers and other loads; high greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Now, a new era of energy efficiency progress in our buildings, transportation, and industry is needed to meet this moment. This wide-ranging study finds a massive opportunity.
The BUILD America 250 Act, advanced by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, would eliminate or weaken many programs that help lower transportation …
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