Climate Resilience and Community Health
Facilitating the deployment of clean energy solutions for healthy air, safe and reliable backup power, and financial well-being.
For decades, historically marginalized communities have been disproportionately impacted by fossil fuel emissions.
These same communities now face the harshest consequences from the impacts of climate change and have access to fewer resources to respond and adapt. Clean Energy Group provides information, policy support, and technical assistance to help ensure that clean energy technologies are intentionally developed where they can provide the greatest social benefit – to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather and power outages on vulnerable communities, to reduce the negative effects of fossil fuel pollution on environmental justice communities, and to deliver reliable and affordable power to households facing energy security issues.
Explore Our Initiatives
Resilient Power Project
As extreme weather and prolonged power outages become more frequent and severe, clean energy solutions like solar+storage can provide reliable, life-saving backup power during emergencies, as well as cost savings and broader grid benefits during times of regular grid operations.
Climate Resilient Energy Codes
Resilient energy technologies such as solar, battery storage, and efficient heating and cooling can allow residents to safely shelter in place during power outages and reduce energy costs throughout the year.
Clean Energy Incentive Navigator
A nationwide network of solar+storage learning hubs advancing affordable, renewable, and resilient power resources in communities that have historically been left out of the clean energy transition.
Technical Assistance Fund
Supporting local energy resilience by equipping community-serving organizations with the information they need to advance a resilient solar and battery storage project toward the next stage in development.
Health and Energy Security
For individuals with electricity-dependent medical needs, power outages can be a matter of life or death. Energy storage paired with solar can provide energy resilience to power home health needs as well as health centers, assisted care facilities, and other medical facilities.
Phase Out Peakers
Heavily polluting fossil fuel peaker power plants are disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color. CEG supports communities in their efforts to phase out peakers and replace them with clean alternatives.
Resilient Power Leadership Initiative
Helping nonprofit community-based organizations overcome internal capacity and resource constraints through funding support to develop local resilient power awareness and implementation strategies in low-income communities and communities of color.
Hydrogen Information and Public Education
Burning hydrogen in power plants and homes releases high levels of nitrogen oxide emissions, impacting air quality and threatening the health of surrounding communities.
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