by AESP Member Contributor | Jul 13, 2026 | Business Strategy, CARE, Customer Programs
Households, especially low- to moderate-income (LMI), across the United States increasingly struggle to pay their electric and gas utility bills, driving stress, forcing tradeoffs and sacrifices, and creating arrears and disconnection risks. Financial pressure is...
by Jen Szaro | Jul 9, 2026 | AESP Leadership, CARE, Energy Efficiency, United States
AESP strongly supports consumer choice, transparency, and affordability. But true affordability must account for the full cost of ownership — not just what a customer pays at checkout. For millions of households, the monthly utility bill is part of the purchase price....
by AESP Member Contributor | Dec 12, 2025 | CARE, Customer Programs, Marketing
Traditionally, household energy use has been viewed as a matter of personal or family choice. As an industry, when we design and deliver clean energy programs, we often assume that families use energy in roughly the same ways. As a result, we’ve paid relatively little...
by AESP Member Contributor | Oct 13, 2025 | Business Strategy, CARE
“Abundance flows from reciprocity, not extraction.” Across the globe, new data centers are being built to power machine learning, cloud services and the digital economy we’ve come to call AI. These facilities consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and their...
by AESP Member Contributor | Jun 24, 2025 | AESP Leadership, CARE, Customer Programs
Every June, rainbow logos light up corporate websites and social media in a show of support for the LGBTQIA+ community. But beyond flags and hashtags, what does meaningful support look like? This question is especially relevant in industries like energy, where...
by Ian Perterer | Nov 9, 2022 | CARE, Customer Programs, Marketing
Flawed Assumptions Like most of you, KPIs are my deliverer or my doom. So when I saw a recent study from McGill University and University Michigan at Ann Arbor on energy justice, efficiency, and emissions, I was wide-eyed. The study found a paradoxical relationship...
