advocating for YOU the ratepayer at the CPUC
and
leading the fight for Community Choice Aggregation access to Energy
Efficiency funds
Community Choice is
Energy Democracy
California's "Community
Choice" law, passed in 2002, allows any
city, county, or group of cities & counties to choose
alternative electricity providers - and run their own energy efficiency programs.
marin clean energy
marin clean energy
WEM's fresh & dynamic work on Climate Change has been formally recognized as a "significant contribution" by the CPUC, where we are one of only four or five public interest representatives in energy efficiency & power procurement proceedings.
clean energy now
WEM opposed PG&E's request for 2300 MW of new gas fired power plants:
the Judge approved only 800-1100 MW, telling them to use renewables instead of fossil fuel.
climate change
energy savings programs
WEM is a public interest participant , advocating for more effective programs to increase energy savings.
ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE
Power plants are almost all located in low-income, minority communities, causing serious health damage. WEM members in these communities are pushing for construction of clean energy systems with local jobs & economic benefits.
the facts
Don't fall for the greenwashing
PG$E is missing the state's targets for renewables and efficiency:
- It had 14% renewables in 2003 when the state set a target of 20% by 2010.
- It had 13% renewables in 2008!
- It met only 73% of efficiency goals in 2006 to 2007! Source: CA Public Utilities Comm.)
- PG&E calls dams & nukes green energy
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PLEASE JOIN US! HAVE FUN WORKING FOR CLEAN ENERGY, HEALTHY FOOD, & CARING COMMUNITIES!
Women’s Energy Matters
WEM is a network of women & men who approach energy issues from a woman's point of view. WEM celebrates the ways women have used their energy through the ages to work for the public good.
the mess
Women have long dealt with the industrial energy system's mess: cleaning up soot in our houses and clothes, nursing family members sickened by pollution & industrial accidents, coping with personal and societal change.
