Everyone deserves access to clean and affordable energy for powering homes, businesses, and transportation.

Inclusive utility investments can overcome the upfront costs of clean energy upgrades to create jobs, cut pollution, and lower energy bills for everyone.

Pathway to smart utilities

Utilities are ready for 100% clean energy. Clean Energy Works brings highly technical expertise that utilities, policymakers, and advocates need to get inclusive utility investments up and running for every community. We offer technical assistance, research, and coaching for utilities and energy providers interested in scaling up their investments in the clean energy economy. 

 

Pathway to equitable solutions

100% means everyone. Clean Energy Works partners with policymakers and community advocates to advance equitable clean energy solutions that work for everyone. We educate, provide technical assistance, and build relationships with local organizing networks to ensure that everyone can participate and benefit in the new energy economy.  

 

Pathway to smart utilities

Utilities are ready for 100% clean energy. Clean Energy Works brings highly technical expertise that utilities, policymakers, and advocates need to get inclusive utility investments up and running for every community. We offer technical assistance, research, and coaching for utilities and energy providers interested in scaling up their investments in the clean energy economy. 

 

Pathway to equitable solutions

100% means everyone. Clean Energy Works partners with policymakers and community advocates to advance equitable clean energy solutions that work for everyone. We educate, provide technical assistance, and build relationships with local organizing networks to ensure that everyone can participate and benefit in the new energy economy.  

 

More than a dozen utilities have demonstrated that a solution that clears the upfront cost barrier to clean energy upgrades for anyone is better for everyone.

Utilities have access to the capital needed to make these upgrades at scale, so that everyone–regardless of income, credit history, home ownership–can access the benefits of clean energy and benefit from lower monthly bills even in areas recognized for persistent poverty. Clean Energy Works brings highly technical expertise that utilities, policymakers, and advocates need to get inclusive utility investments up and running for every community.

Equity

Increasing Connections Towards Equitable Inclusive Utility Investments

Local advocates and community champions play pivotal roles in helping to shape programming that is responsive to, and intentionally built to service, those in the community that could see the biggest impacts to lower utility bills and safer, more comfortable housing. Champions are also the best advocates for accountability as utilities and regulators are most apt t…

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2023 - A great year for expanding investment in clean energy upgrades!

As we kick off the new year, we are also reflecting on 2023, which vastly expanded the field of work on inclusive and equitable financial solutions. At Clean Energy Works, we celebrated commission decisions on inclusive utility investments in three states, hailed $70 billion in new clean energy project proposals from rural electric cooperatives, and welcomed new te…

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Equity

An Equity Framework for School Bus Electrification

The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA)  and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to electrify school buses. Utilities are rising to meet this historic moment by facilitating and accelerating the transition to zero emission school buses. Today, Exelon, the largest parent utility company in the United States …

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Honoring Stephen Bickel

On November 1st, Stephen Bickel, passed away due to injuries sustained in a biking accident. We are grieving the sudden loss of our colleague and dear friend. Stephen’s significant contributions in the last half decade changed our field. After an influential career managing standards for energy efficient products, Stephen decided that the race against a changing …

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