Clean Energy Calendar

To achieve widespread adoption of heat pumps, it's imperative to ensure that households switching from gas to heat pumps don't see their bills go up. Fortunately there's a solution! Currently, utilities are overcharging heat pump customers for the poles and wires that deliver electricity. Dedicated heat pump rates, like those already offered by Con Edison, can solve this. Our esteemed speakers include Juan-Pablo Velez, Executive Director of Switchbox, Magdalen Sullivan, Attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Jessica Azulay, Executive Director at AGREE. The webinar covers a new report commissioned by AGREE and Earthjustice on heat pump rates. The report can be accessed at this link: https://www.switch.box/nyhprates Study Two-Pager: https://renewableheatnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/switchbox_nyhprates_onepager.pdf The teach-in includes an overview of the NY heat pump design working group's plan to call on the NY Public Service Commission to take action on electric rate design in the "Grid of the Future" docket to ensure that electric heating customers are not overpaying for electricity and to help drive heat pump adoption across the state.

In this virtual teach-in we address how the Clean Air Initiative can ensure the CLCPA’s environmental justice and greenhouse gas reduction goals are backed by enforceable regulations with mandatory emission limits on New York’s top-emitting sectors, buildings and transportation. We walk you through how to use New York’s official public comment tool to weigh in on the recently proposed Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule, which requires corporate polluters to tell us what they are dumping into our air (really important as EPA has signaled that it will end this requirement at the federal level) Speakers: Julie Tighe, President NYLCV & NYLCVEF Eric Walker, Energy Justice Senior Policy Manager, WE ACT for Environmental Justice Moderated by Betta Broad, Campaign Director, New Yorkers for Clean Power & Association for Energy Affordability We dive into: The latest with NY’s cap-and-invest program, now called the Clean Air Initiative and why it’s our best path to regulate and phase out emissions from buildings and transportation. The health and economic benefits of cap-and-invest + the $1 billion Sustainable Future Fund How to show up for upcoming public hearings, submit comments, and help push for the reporting rule that would mandate fossil fuel providers to report their GHG impacts, and call for the full release of regulations to actually cap GHG and copollutant emissions.

Join New Yorkers for Clean Power and the NY Energy Democracy Alliance for an interactive teach-in on the Green Affordable Pre-Electrification Fund, legislation that will help create a pathway to home energy upgrades for low and moderate income homes. Our panelists include: Assemblymember Anna Kelles and State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, the lead sponsors of this crucial legislation, Jasmine Graham, Executive Director and Mid-Hudson Energy Transition, Avni Pravin, Deputy Director at the Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE), Matt Dennis, heat pump and weatherization sales at Halco Energy, and Annie Carforo of WE ACT for Environmental Justice.

New York’s Climate Law stated we should reach 70% renewable energy by 2030, and we always knew this would be a difficult task. New York underwent a massive shift to renewable energy, and despite tremendous progress, there were still…