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NYSERDA is working to address the challenges historically marginalized communities have faced in accessing programs and using their lived experience to inform solutions that support an inclusive clean energy transition.
NYSERDA recognizes the role that public policy has played in perpetuating inequities faced by historically marginalized communities while working to leverage its critical role in addressing the climate crisis, energy injustice, and the legacy of environmental racism.
With a priority of ensuring the energy transition is affordable and equitable, NYSERDA is transforming its approach to advancing energy and climate justice through investments in our economy and workforce that address historic inequities and improve health and resilience for all New Yorkers.
The Energy and Climate Equity (ECE) team orchestrates NYSERDA’s Energy and Climate Equity Strategy, with a focus on shifting investments to reduce burden and increase benefits to frontline and historically marginalized communities while designing inclusive pathways for meaningful exchange to ensure these communities are front and center in the decisions that impact their everyday lives.
Changes to state policy and operations result in intentional prioritization of frontline communities to repair historic disinvestment.
Key ECE Programs and Initiatives
Designing inclusive pathways for meaningful stakeholder input to help shape NYSERDA decisions that impact their lives.
Key ECE Programs and Initiatives
Foundational shifts in NYSERDA investment and programs to reduce burden and increase benefit to frontline communities.
Key ECE Programs & Initiatives
Get updates on NYSERDA's work building an inclusive clean energy economy.
NYSERDA is focused on shifting to initiatives that allow for deeper, more coordinated engagement and collaboration with historically marginalized communities around program planning and policy development. The initiatives below are intended to create more inclusive pathways for meaningful community input and to shift NYSERDA investment and programs to reduce burden and increase benefit to frontline communities through our clean energy initiatives and programs.
Community-based organizations providing hands-on support to help New Yorkers navigate clean energy opportunities for their home, business, or career.
A shared space for collaboration between those serving and representing historically marginalized communities and NYSERDA and State government partners.
Compensation for community-based organizations for their contributions to NYSERDA’s policies, programs, and planning.
Working group dedicated to advising New York State's offshore wind energy goals with environmental justice at the forefront.
Explores the regional conditions that affect participation, resident challenges, and resources to support equitable clean energy participation.
Equity and climate justice are cornerstones of New York State’s policies and plans focused on advancing clean energy and combatting the changing climate.
NYSERDA has worked in tandem with representatives from historically marginalized communities to integrate climate equity in the following New York State plans and initiatives.
NY's State Energy Plan guides energy decisions through 2040, aimed at creating a reliable, clean, and affordable system for all New Yorkers.
Discover New York’s framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing renewable energy use, and ensuring all communities equitably benefit in the clean energy transition.
Access the full report, which assesses why some communities face disproportionate climate impacts and provides recommendations to ensure that the benefits of clean energy are accessible for all New Yorkers.
Learn about how New York State clean energy programs are providing benefits to disadvantaged communities and the process to establish the criteria and view indicator details for census tracts across New York.
The NYS Adaption and Resilience Plan establishes a framework and strategy to advance climate adaption and resilience across New York communities.
NYSERDA also integrates climate equity into internal operations and organizational culture with support from the Energy and Climate Equity team. This includes the Energy Equity Stewardship Network, a peer-to-peer learning network within NYSERDA that provides staff with tools and resources to better understand climate equity issues and incorporate equity considerations into programs and policies. In addition, NYSERDA’s Climate Equity Leadership Council serves as an internal sounding board for identifying energy and climate equity opportunities and challenges. Council participants include staff representatives of sector-based teams and members of NYSERDA’s Executive Leadership. NYSERDA also operates under a Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan for guiding principles and goals focused on building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture within the organization.
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