Issue: IRA

WHYY launched ads to fight PECO’s new rate hike request. This tooolkit includes long and short post copy samples, along with a media hit from WHYY to amplify. Share the media hit and graphics of the ads with your posts on Linkedin, X, Bluesky, Instagram, and/or Facebook.

An interactive map of electricity prices across the US. Includes breakdowns over time (since 2020) and by Congressional district, county, ZIP, and utility.

Through focus groups in three California communities — Orange and Ventura counties, the Central Valley, and the Central Coast — Data for Progress and the Reliable Grid Project examined Californians’ attitudes on the growing battery storage industry in the state. This research identified low existing awareness of battery storage projects among Californians, and high variability in views of battery storage’s potential to address the California grid’s most pressing challenges.

In Crockett County, the turbines generate more than just electricity. Money from NextEra supports the meals and events at senior center center, among other benefits. It all comes down to clever utilization of a section of the Texas tax code. As a way of attracting large projects like wind farms, the state offers companies a temporary property tax break — up to 10 years — in exchange for local investment. This Texas Abatement Act (also known as Section 312) means less tax revenue in the short term, but more dollars immediately flowing to community projects and programs like the senior center in Crockett.

Skyrocketing gas prices, which have surged more than 60 cents per gallon since the start of the war with Iran, have ironically created a direct opening to reframe clean cars and EVs, as well as federal policy investments in them, as an economic and energy security imperative, not just a climate or environmental solution. Provides talking points, LTE, and social media guidance to hold the administration, and especially EPA and NHTSA, accountable for boxing us into this inescapable price volatility, while pivoting to the solution (i.e., that clean vehicles and especially those that run on stable, American-made electricity, structurally insulate drivers from global oil market chaos).

A guide for local solar energy siting projects. Includes recommendations for developing your playbook, including advice for Before you pitch, Stories to pitch, Ads, and Neutralizing the opposition. Plus case studies and other resources.

Electricity bills have joined groceries, housing, and health care as a top tier issue in the affordability crisis. Voters broadly support clean energy and view it as one of the few solutions to help lower energy costs.