Learn how we are working to transform how we use and produce energy.
NY Change Lab
We aim to empower and improve the lives of low-income communities and households in New York in a clean energy future using a social change lab method.
What is the NY Change Lab?
The NY Change Lab is a convening platform for the key organizations working at the nexus of clean energy and low-income communities in New York State. The Change Lab brings these participants together to help them develop a shared understanding of complex problems, identify mutual opportunities, propose new partnerships and work initiatives, and build stakeholders’ capacity to work together toward common solutions.
WHY IT MATTERS
Today, deeply entrenched barriers continue to make it difficult for low-income communities and households in New York (over 30 percent of the total and rising) to access clean energy benefits like better health, environmental resilience, and economic growth. At the same time, a number of recent developments present interesting opportunities to address how low-income households participate in and benefit from clean energy choices. These include landmark regulatory shifts like New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding, post-Superstorm Sandy resilience efforts, ambitious state climate goals, local and city plans, and an increasing range of customer choices and emerging business models around distributed energy resources (DERs).rnToday’s shifting energy landscape in New York is demanding new things of policy makers, practitioners, and communities alike. With that comes a greater need for new and nontraditional working partnerships between a broader set of stakeholders.
WHO’S INVOLVED
The NY Change Lab engages a diverse group of organizations throughout the state, including low-income and consumer advocates; environmental groups; community-based organizations; federal, state, and local government entities; housing authorities; housing developers and managers; utilities; regulatory agencies; foundations; financiers; and distributed energy resource service providers.
Help build the clean energy future. Donate today.
Independent research. Real-world solutions. Supported by donors.
RMI can pursue the highest-impact climate and energy solutions because we’re supported by people who believe change is possible. Every gift helps advance the work needed to make clean energy the default choice worldwide.
For other ways to give to RMI, including checks or gifts of stock, please visit Other Ways to Give.
