Clean Energy Group

Resilient Power Project Impacts: 2014-2024

This document summarizes some of the key project outcomes of the Resilient Power Project through providing information, knowledge-building support, and technical assistance to organizations working in low-income communities and communities of color across the country.

Potential Dangers of Blending Hydrogen and Natural Gas in Pipelines 

Could blending hydrogen with natural gas help decarbonize the natural gas supply chain?  This 4-page fact sheet outlines the potential dangers of blending hydrogen and natural gas in pipelines. These dangers include hydrogen’s corrosive effects on pipeline materials, its tendency to leak, and its highly explosive nature.  Hydrogen blending is also inefficient and costly: a…

PEAK Coalition Comments on NYSERDA’s Residential and Retail Battery Storage Implementation Plan

The PEAK Coalition – UPROSE, THE POINT CDC, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA), New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), and Clean Energy Group (CEG) – a campaign to end the long-standing pollution burden from fossil fuel-fired power plants, submitted comments on NYSERDA’s 2024-2030 energy storage incentives plan. The coalition supports the…

Demanding a Better Grid: How Demand Management Can Accelerate the Phase-Out of New York City’s Peaker Power Plants

This report highlights ways to address New York City’s growing electricity demand and accelerate peaker plant retirement through robust demand management solutions that harness the flexibility of customer devices, such as smart thermostats, heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers, solar, and battery storage, to reduce stress on the electric grid. The report includes best practices for…

PEAK Coalition Comments on Title V Permit for Rikers Island Facility

The PEAK Coalition, a campaign to end the long-standing pollution burden from fossil fuel-fired power plants, submitted comments to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on the Title V Permit for Rikers Island Facility.

Comments on New Source Performance Standards and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Stationary Combustion Turbines

Clean Energy Group and its partners submitted comments to the EPA regarding the development of emissions standards and guidelines for existing fossil-fueled stationary combustion turbines.

PEAK Coalition Comments on the New York Energy Storage Roadmap

The PEAK Coalition, in partnership with Earthjustice and El Puente, filed comments on March 7, 2024, with the New York State Public Service Commission. The comments call for the need for a capacity carveout and additional incentives for battery storage in New York City (NYISO’s Zone J) in any upcoming order implementing New York’s Energy Storage Roadmap.

Massachusetts Clean Peak Coalition Comments to DOER

The Massachusetts Clean Peak Coalition submitted comments to the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources regarding DOER’s December 2023 report, “Charging Forward: Energy Storage in a Net Zero Commonwealth”.

Accelerate Now! The Fossil Fuel End Game 2.0

This report outlines the negative impacts that peaker power plants are having on NYC communities, challenges and barriers impeding the speed of the transition, and pathways forward to accelerate the transition to clean alternatives.

The PEAK Coalition Comments on EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants

The PEAK Coalition submitted comments regarding the EPA’s proposed new carbon pollution standards for coal and gas-fired power plants, expressing grave concerns about the environmental justice implications of the proposed rules.