Resource Library

This Blueprint for Affordable Energy lays out a plan to lower energy bills, confront the climate crisis, and rein in runaway corporate power.

Recommendations on how to talk about community power, including the opportunity because voters are fed up with skyrocketing bills and. for-profit utility greed and want solution, and a recommended message that “community power” is cheaper, faster, more efficient.

A toolkit for advocates and implementers on advancing neighborhood-scale building decarbonization strategies that shift the unit of building decarbonization from the building to the block, from the individual to the community.

Despite the challenge, the Lab community has shown up over and over again to collaborate, share insights, learn together in trainings and cohorts, and create spaces to nurture ourselves and build our resilience. As we close out 2025, here is a rundown of what we’ve accomplished together.

With energy costs on the rise, I have been scouring trusted sources for answers on the best ways to talk about the energy affordability crisis. Let me point you to three grounding strategies that have helped me figure out how we can make the energy affordability case.

For this newsletter, I wanted to share some of our favorite reads of the year; I hope they will keep you company in the coming winter months.

The landscape for clean energy buildout in the US has changed dramatically in the last year. Yet one constant is the ongoing barrage of mis- and dis-information1 from a variety of actors, from industry-backed anti-wind front groups to the President. The narratives and debates continue to evolve, however, and this report collects relevant research and insights from practice from the past 12 months, to provide guidance for anti-disinformation practitioners on two key emerging topics in the clean energy information space:
Affordability: electricity costs and clean energy
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)