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COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization KEYWORDS Decarbonization, Financing, Electrification REGION State, Local AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Residential Decarbonization, Funding and Financing OVERSIGHT State or Local Procurement or Contracting Offices POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation Why This Matters The purchase of heat pumps, solar panels, and other residential decarbonization-related products and services can typically cost tens of thousands of dollars,1 […]

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Empowerment, Transparency KEYWORDS Governance, Utility Rates REGION State, Regional, Local AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Utility Reform: Accountability OVERSIGHT Utility Commissions, Energy Agencies POLICY MECHANISM Regulation, Legislation Why This Matters Utility customers and the broader public often have limited access to critical information about utility investments, programs, and operations that can significantly impact living standards

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Transparency KEYWORDS Utility rates, utility bills REGION State, Federal AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Utility Reform: Cost Containment; Utility Reform: Accountability OVERSIGHT State Agencies, Public Utility Commissions POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation Why This Matters At the same time that utility costs are rising across the country1 and U.S. households experienced utility shutoffs 13 million times

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization KEYWORDS Decarbonization, Electricity, Grid Infrastructure, Remediation, Fossil fuels REGION State AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Funding and Financing, Utility Reform: Energy Transition, Utility Reform: Cost Containment OVERSIGHT Utility Commission POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation Why This Matters Utility ratepayers are on the hook for utility investments made decades ago, whether or not those investments were

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Transparency, Resilience, Public Health, Environment, Decarbonization, Energy Reliability KEYWORDS Clean energy, Decarbonization, Distributed energy, Efficiency, Electricity, Resilience, Shutoffs, Utility bills, Utility rates REGION State AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Utility Reform: Accountability OVERSIGHT Utility Commission POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation, Executive Why This Matters Investor-owned utilities have traditionally been regulated based on a “cost-of-service” model in

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization KEYWORDS Clean energy, Electricity, Grid infrastructure REGION Federal, Regional, State AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Utility Reform: Cost Containment, Utility Reform: Energy Transition OVERSIGHT FERC, Regional Transmission Operators, Utility Commissions, Energy Agencies POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation, Executive, Litigation Why This Matters Electricity transmission infrastructure plays a central role in the electric grid, connecting utility-scale

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization, Energy reliability, Environment, Public health, Resilience KEYWORDS Clean energy, Distributed energy, Resilience REGION State, utility AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Residential Decarbonization, Utility Reform: Energy Transition OVERSIGHT Utility Commission POLICY MECHANISM Regulation, Legislation, Executive Why This Matters Current utility planning often fails to adequately value (or entirely omits) distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as solar

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability KEYWORDS Utility Bills, Utility Rates REGION State AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Household Protections OVERSIGHT Utility Commission POLICY MECHANISM Legislation, Regulation Why This Matters About a quarter of U.S. households face high energy cost burdens, paying more than 6% of their income towards energy bills.1 Utility bills are typically split into two components: volumetric rates

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization KEYWORDS Clean energy, Decarbonization, Financing REGION State AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Funding/Financing OVERSIGHT State Treasurers, Governor POLICY MECHANISM Executive, Legislation Why This Matters Funding is sorely needed to effectuate deployment and scale up climate solutions across various aspects of the energy transition. In the absence of direct public funding, many types of investments

COMMUNITY BENEFIT Affordability, Decarbonization, Resilience KEYWORDS Clean energy, Funding, Decarbonization REGION State, Local AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Funding/Financing OVERSIGHT Energy offices, city councils, etc. POLICY MECHANISM Legislation Why This Matters Across society, we face an urgent need to rapidly adopt efficient, clean energy resources, shift away from fossil fuels, decarbonize across all sectors, and build climate resilience.