Build Public Renewables
While we push to shut down the fracked gas system, we’re advancing policies that open the door to renewables, weatherization, energy storage, and community-led solutions like public power and thermal energy networks: a safe, clean, and renewable way to heat and cool our homes and businesses.
Thermal Energy Networks: The Renewable, Affordable, Healthy Alternative to Gas Heating
Thermal energy networks can drive a rapid and just transition away from fracked gas. The same union labor that builds gas pipelines is needed for thermal energy network construction, thus, generating thousands of good new union jobs.
While investor-owned utilities can develop and own thermal energy networks, they won’t have a monopoly: municipalities, community groups, and housing co-ops can also create and own them, eliminating the profits that make up around 10% of utility bills.
Watch the video below by Jay Ego Geothermal about how thermal energy works.
NYS Governor Supports Thermal Energy Networks
Beautiful Video Explainer about Thermal Energy Networks by our colleagues at HEET!
Here in New York City, we are working with Village East Towers, an affordable housing complex on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to replace its current gas fired steam system for heat to geothermal for heating AND cooling!
As an active member of the Renewable Heat Now campaign and the Public Power NY Coalition, Sane Energy Project advocates for geothermal, building electrification, and public power in New York State.
We are on the Steering Committee of the New York Energy Democracy Alliance, a statewide coalition of community-based organizations, and policy experts working to advance a just transition to a democratically controlled clean energy economy in New York State.
