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.
In Harris County, TX, we continue to work with the county to protect and defend the $250M Solar For All grant award, including supporting their litigation efforts and other advocacy to attempt to stop this money from being clawed back. On the offensive level, we continue to do base building and recruit and graduate workers from the Green Energy Pre-Apprenticeship Program run by Texas Climate Jobs Project. We are gearing up to having broader strategic conversations about alternative public and private financing for at least the Harris County microgrid as an alternative to the EPA grant money.
