Ensuring Energy Equity
SCSJ works to advance energy equity by making sure energy plans, development projects, and utility rate decisions consider environmental justice issues and the hidden costs imposed on impacted communities.
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Improving energy equity is a key component of the fight for environmental justice. Residents shoulder pollution, medical bills, and climate impacts, even as utilities pass infrastructure costs to ratepayers while securing guaranteed profits for projects that primarily benefit large industries.
The Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels
Low-income ratepayers spend a larger share of their income on utilities and often pay more per capita due to older, inefficient housing. Utility rates thus act as a regressive tax, while these same communities disproportionately bear the hidden costs of fossil fuel generation. Plants and pipelines are routinely placed in low-income and rural areas, reducing property values, harming health, and shortening lifespans.
Residents shoulder pollution, medical bills, and climate impacts, even as utilities pass infrastructure costs to ratepayers while securing guaranteed profits for projects that primarily benefit large industries.
Energy Equity Cases
Filed
Duke Energy Carbon Plan
Energy Equity News
Energy Equity + Environmental Justice
NC Environmental Justice Orgs Demand Low Cost, Reliable Plan from Duke Energy
Community Health + Energy Equity + Zoning and Land Use
SCSJ, Allies Demand Stronger Protections for Community in Duke Energy’s Roxboro Gas Plant Air Permit
Energy Equity
SCSJ: Duke Energy’s Carbon Plan Prioritizes Profits Over Practical Solutions
Energy Equity + Environmental Justice