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Building Reliable and Affordable Power
People across the country are overwhelmed by the high cost of energy. The best way to lower costs for all of us is to improve the grid and build as much cheap, reliable, clean energy as we can, as fast as we can. It’s also vital to put a stop to any further buildout of dangerous, expensive fossil gas energy.
The Analysis
As utility bills continue to rise and climate disasters become more common, energy affordability and reliability have become top concerns for voters. Meanwhile, data centers are driving higher demand and new supply is struggling to keep up. We must rapidly deploy abundant clean energy—wind, solar, and storage—because it is faster to build, more reliable, better for our climate, and can protect families from higher bills.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans support a transition to clean energy and more than nine in ten say clean energy is important to the country’s future.
Clean energy is the fastest way to bring more low-cost energy onto the grid. Wind and solar are faster to build than new gas power plants, delivering reliable power at lower cost.
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Clean Electricity is Cheap Electricity
To lower utility bills and cut dangerous pollution, we must deploy abundant clean energy, tackle inflated utility profits, and address data center energy demand.
Electricity bills are going up across the country. Data centers are driving higher demand. Meanwhile, the supply of new power is struggling to keep up. Long permitting processes and grid delays are holding back clean power projects that could meet the need for new energy.
On top of that, monopoly utilities are making record profits at the expense of everyday customers, and data center companies are passing on the cost of their electrcity to the rest of us.
Thankfully, states are well positioned to:
Unlock abundant clean energy to keep prices down
Ensure big tech companies are paying their fair share
Keep utility profits within reason
“Clean energy is here, it’s popular, and it’s in demand. Cutting it off now would only raise household costs, harm communities, and undermine all the progress we’ve already made.”
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Stop the Coal Bailout
While families are struggling to make ends meet, the president is spending $625 million taxpayer dollars to prop up toxic, outdated coal plants. Tell the president and his Department of Energy to stop forcing us to pay for his coal bailout.
It’s simple: clean power is cheaper, faster, and more reliable than fossil fuels. That’s why we’re working hard to help states pass good clean energy policy—like in Michigan, where we worked alongside partners to help pass nation-leading climate and clean energy legislation.
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“Big Oil wants you to pay extra for dirtier air and unreliable power. We need state policies that support renewables to lower our bills, clean up our air, and build a grid we can count on.”
