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.

Policy

Leveraging Federal Funding for Clean Energy Upgrades

Clean Energy Works is working with utilities and other stakeholders to leverage Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs funded to further accelerate adoption of inclusive utility investment policies and programs, giving focused attention to rural electric cooperatives and electric school buses as catalysts for change.…

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United States

SEPA Inclusive Utility Investment Task Force Kicks Off with Informational Webinar

At its core, inclusive utility investments aim to ensure that everyone, not just those who can afford it, is able to benefit from clean energy upgrades. Initially hailed as a successful approach within electric distribution cooperatives, this model is now finding favor among investor-owned utilities as well. This approach not only bolsters the grid through use of d…

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Transportation Electrification

Inclusive Utility Investments for E-Transport

Transportation electrification is a category of investment for utilities, not only in the delivery of electricity as fuel, but in the charging infrastructure and battery for light duty and heavy duty vehicles. Clean Energy Works worked with the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance to develop PAYS  for Clean Transport, starting with transit buses. Through this…

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News

Celebrating Matt Flaherty's Promotion to Director of Building Decarbonization

We are thrilled to announce that Matt Flaherty, previously Senior Associate of Building Decarbonization, has been promoted to Director of the Building Decarbonization team at Clean Energy Works. After a thorough two-month open job search, the Leadership Team unanimously extended this well-deserved offer to Matt in recognition of his exceptional performance, dedicat…

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