Energy Justice

Everyone throughout the Southeast – regardless of our zip code, income, skin color, gender, or abilities – should have equal opportunities to reap the benefits clean energy offers.

The Southeast has some of the highest energy bills in the nation, and the economic burden of these high energy costs is especially high for those on low or fixed incomes who all too often must choose between paying their power bills or affording food or medicines.

Increasing impacts from climate change are also taking a toll. Across the Southeast and around the world, underserved communities, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and women and girls often experience the greatest impacts of extreme temperatures and damages from intensifying storms, floods, and wildfires.

Clean energy provides economic and social benefits including more affordable energy bills, safer homes and communities, a healthier quality of life, and a more resilient, brighter future. SACE works to address environmental, racial, social, and economic injustices through advocacy for equitable policies, practices, and programs that tackle our region’s harmful reliance on fossil fuels and help avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Because underresourced and disadvantaged communities often experience negative climate impacts first and worst, we prioritize collaboration with these communities to promote meaningful solutions that reduce their environmental and economic burdens.

Just as we are committed to confronting environmental and energy injustices, we are also committed to recognizing and addressing the ways societal inequity is reflected within our organization, and in turn cultivating equity and justice internally.