Since electricity is essential for human life itself in our modern and digital society, the answer for me is everyone.
We can and should make electricity for all.
We're in the middle of a climate-driven transition to an all-electric world, and choices made about the transition are changing us, too.
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The lessons from my lived experiences as an energy engineer, policy researcher, and systems changemaker shape my personal study of the future of the electric grid in society.
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All of us working on utility law, policy, and operation can change our work in order to create opportunities for collaboration with more progressive social movements not fewer. I want to offer a reparative definition for utility justice inspired by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Ol煤f岷固乵i O. T谩铆w貌.
Any queer person who works on climate and energy issues鈥攗tility issues, especially鈥攊n a technical capacity of any kind is a marvel. A statistical miracle. On my first day working on utility policy, I quickly noticed that I didn't have any openly LGBTQ colleagues.
Spanning utility history, economic theory, analysis of structural racism, and practical guides to organizing for justice going forward, this reading list is a deeper introduction for anyone using the People's Utility curriculum or wanting to learn more about utility justice in a reading group.
With more than one-quarter of all U.S. households experiencing energy insecurity, the requirement of private utilities to produce competitive profits is fundamentally opposed to the equally urgent tasks of resisting energy apartheid while greening our buildings and the power sector.
We鈥檙e helping working people to be seen and heard. More justice. More accountability. More power for the people. A More Perfect Union.
Research and analysis on oil, gas, water, hydrogen, solar, wind and energy storage.
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
Notes on electricity's intersection with culture and movements for economic and social justice
