The power for our homes and businesses in Texas costs too much, fails too often and is killing us.
After the catastrophic power failures of winter 2021 that cost Texans hundreds of lives, millions of dollars in damages, and billions of dollars in electricity due to corporate price-gouging, little to nothing has been done to prevent future power grid disasters. Instead, Texas residents are now paying some of the highest power costs in the country for increasingly unreliable service. At the same time workers are dying in solar fields because of the harsh working conditions they are forced to work in.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to accept high prices for low quality services and bad working conditions.
We have the opportunity to secure better, more reliable, and more cost effective power that will also bring good union jobs to our communities by utilizing federal dollars to create a new and sustainable power hub on Harris County-owned land. This Harris County Energy Hub will lower power costs and create good union jobs with competitive wages for working people. Allowing us to keep more money in our pockets to buy groceries for our families, gas for our cars, and pay rent for our homes.
If like so many of us you are tired of being squeezed by high electricity prices with no reasonable alternatives, join us in moving Texas into a future that works for everyone.
Together we can become the epicenter of America’s clean energy future, build a reliable energy hub to keep our lights on, and become a truly climate resilient county.
