Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
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Mission Statement
Mission: Advance science-based solutions for climate change, energy, and environmental challenges. Vision: A sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.
About This Cause
Since our inception, EESI has been a powerful force in federal energy and environmental policy. Since 1988, we have focused our policy work through a climate change lens. And for the last decade, EESI has also provided technical assistance to municipal utilities and rural electric utilities to help them adopt financing solutions that benefit their customers, while driving down emissions. From energy efficiency financing to solutions to climate change and energy innovations, we’re a resource for policymakers, the media, and the public! Federal Climate Policy Program: As a nonpartisan climate policy nonprofit, EESI fills a critical need: turning complex concepts into accessible information and inviting decision makers from both sides of the aisle to ask questions. EESI works to inform a policy environment in which policymakers work to curb climate change and to increase resilience to current and future climate impacts in an equitable way. It is also urgent for our country’s leaders to understand the economic and human costs of climate change that frontline communities bear, and to act to reduce those impacts. EESI organizes Congressional briefings to highlight climate solutions, especially those that have multiple benefits and advance equity. We host at least 20 Congressional briefings, which are free and also open to the public, every year. They have been fully remote and online since March 2020, although we just hosted our first partially in-person event since the pandemic started, the 2022 Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Forum. EESI hosted 29 briefings in 2021 and 26 briefings in 2022. These are recorded for viewing online both as real-time streaming events and archived videos and written highlights, so anyone can access them at a time and place convenient to them. EESI develops and distributes user-friendly fact sheets and issue briefs on energy and environmental topics, such as our annual fact sheet on jobs in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors, and our exploration of government funding for the fossil fuel industry and how this is starting to move in the right direction. These resources and others we produce are in high demand from many Congressional offices as well as media outlets. Technical Assistance Work that Benefits from and Informs our Federal Climate Policy Work: In on-bill financing, people in vulnerable and underserved communities can access energy improvements because a loan payment is added to their home energy bill. EESI’s recommended program design emphasizes equity, such as tying repayment to the energy meter and qualifying customers based on good bill payment history, rather than credit scores. This results in lower bills and better comfort for these families. And it helps further speed our nation’s path to drive down emissions, as financing can otherwise be a major barrier to energy upgrades. EESI works to help cooperatives access zero-interest loan funds with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy Savings Program, to accelerate the spread and adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Now is the time to be part of climate solutions. Your role is critical. We’re not funded by Congress, as some think. Join us!