Energy Affordability
Webinar: Energy Affordability Spotlight Series – Using narrative and polling for action
In the second webinar of the Energy Affordability Spotlight series,”Using Polling and Narrative for Action,” we examine how to build popular momentum for energy and climate policies. Energy affordability fights are won or lost as much on the strength of the story as the strength of the policy. This session equips community-based organizations and advocates with practical tools for communicating energy…
The Call to Climate Justice: A Non-Partisan Field Guide to Connecting the Dots for Candidates & Voters
Surging energy costs and climate change are making it harder to afford a good life. Most people in America agree that the system is rigged and can relate to the feeling of uncertainty when it comes to the future. We must offer compelling explanations for these problems to build a broader, more engaged movement; the…
Accounting For Rural Energy Cost Burdens in Energy Affordability Policies
Authors: Jennifer Moon, PhD. and Arjun Makhijani, PhD. In conversations about energy affordability, the unique affordability challenges that rural communities face can be overlooked. Rural communities have lower median household income levels that make it harder to pay bills; are geographically isolated—creating challenges in energy delivery and access to assistance programs; and have higher rates…
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability has rocketed to the top of the American political agenda. At the gas station, filling up can easily cost over $50 per tank, and millions of people are barely scraping by after their monthly utility bills and rent/mortgage payments. But with all the attention, we have a unique opportunity to inform and influence…
More Stress on Household Bills: Electricity Prices Surged in 2025
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. The inflation rate over the same period was 2.7%. Residential electricity prices outpaced…
Just Solutions to the Energy Affordability Crisis: New Library + Webinar
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 works to protect and improve the lives of the…
Double Trouble: Disruptions to Federal Food Assistance Program (SNAP) and Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Leave Families and Children in Crisis as Winter Approaches
An analysis of which states will be hardest hit and the financial impact As the federal shutdown continues into its second month, households across the country are facing a looming crisis with uncertain funding for food and heating assistance—just as the weather is turning cold. Under pressure from the courts, the Administration has agreed to…
As Energy Costs Spike, Just Solutions Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Pathways to Affordability
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. Georgia Power, for example, increased electricity…
Pathways For Action: Affording Our Clean Energy Future
Across the country, households are struggling to pay for mounting energy costs. From state to state, the costs of everything from mitigating wildfires to integrating new data centers loads are driving up utility bills. States now face an urgent need to address energy costs—and to do so in a lasting way that ensures long-term bill…
The high economic, social, and health costs of unaffordable energy
By Arjun Makhijani, PhD – Unaffordable energy bills impact all of society—including those who can afford to regularly pay their own bills. The direct impacts of unaffordable energy for families experiencing economic stress include ill-health, hunger, utility shutoffs and even evictions because of their inability to pay all the monthly bills. But the indirect impacts…
