Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
“If we’re not prepared to govern, we’re not prepared to win.” -Movement Generation
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Unions, bargaining for the common good, can be a powerful actor and a model for others to organize to reclaim decision-making over energy prices and systems.
Our shared freedom requires continuous testing, transparency, and open debate; legal reforms to meet new circumstances; and active tending to and recognition of injustices, both now and in the past, so we can build a future where all of us thrive.
By Elena Krieger, PhD. The data are in: nationwide, household electricity prices rose nearly twice as fast as inflation last year. Across the United States, average residential electricity prices increased 5% between 2024 and 2025, according to data just released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.[1] The inflation
By Brandon Dawson Across the US, communities are facing fast-moving energy affordability crises while navigating an increasingly complex policy landscape. Yet many solutions already exist, developed through the organizing, advocacy, and ingenuity of communities across the country. Now more than ever, it is critical to leverage what we know
By Elena Krieger, PhD. States face an urgent need to address energy costs—and to do so in a lasting way that ensures long-term bill savings and continues to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Across the country, households are struggling to pay for mounting energy bills.
Driving innovative, equitable solutions to the climate crisis in support of healthy, resilient communities and accountable democratic institutions.
People that can turn to each other for support, even in the poorest neighborhoods, can create powerful buffer against energy and climate disruptions and build political power.
Energy affordability is a multi-level crisis that requires addressing systemic costs equitably through adoption of grid resilience standards and strategies, starting with the most climate-vulnerable and energy-burdened communities.
The variability of wind and solar can be an advantage for energy consumers who can turn their power as energy users into savings.
Energy affordability is not just about the cost of living but also about wealth inequality, racialized exclusion, and institutional mistrust, which require a deliberate strategy toward shared prosperity.
Energy affordability is not about not having enough energy, but democratically deciding how much is enough as a society.
Energy affordability is as much a feature of culture as of technology; we need a reorientation towards energy commons.
By Elena Krieger, PhD. Utility bills are soaring across the country and the need to address energy affordability is becoming increasingly pressing. The conversation, however, is often missing an important part of the equation: the gas that 74 million U.S. households use for heating, hot water, and cooking. [1]
By Aiko Schaefer This month marks our 5th anniversary. What a roller coaster it has been! Just Solutions began amid a once-in-a-generation pandemic, escalating climate impacts, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. I, along with our board, believing in the power of communities and
By Elena Krieger, PhD. The data are in: nationwide, household electricity prices rose nearly twice as fast as inflation last year. Across the United States, average residential electricity prices increased 5% between 2024 and 2025, according to data just released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.[1] The inflation
By Rich Stolz One year into President Trump’s second term, there is a breathtaking attack on fundamental civil liberties underway in Minnesota. The public outcry over the killings of two protestors by immigration agents has forced a reckoning about the strategy and tactics being used in Trump’s mass
By Brandon Dawson Across the US, communities are facing fast-moving energy affordability crises while navigating an increasingly complex policy landscape. Yet many solutions already exist, developed through the organizing, advocacy, and ingenuity of communities across the country. Now more than ever, it is critical to leverage what we know
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