100% Renewable Energy
Developing regenerative energy infrastructure that drives economic development for frontline communities is at the core of a Just Transition. UPROSE has a long history of opposing the disproportionate siting of fossil fuel facilities. However, our current work focuses on promoting energy systems that advance local and regional climate solutions.
Just Transitions
Community-owned Solar
Sunset Park Solar is New York City’s first cooperatively-owned community solar project! Sunset Park Solar is a 685 kilowatt solar project that will be built on the Brooklyn Army Terminal rooftop. Sign up today to be one of the 200 community solar subscribers to receive 15-20% savings on your monthly energy bills! Sunset Park Solar is committed to delivering clean, reliable, and affordable solar energy to the Sunset Park community. We are very excited for this community-led vision to be fully operational by summer 2020. If you have questions visit Sunsetparksolar.org and learn about Sunset Parks first solar owned cooperative.
Sunset Park Solar Customer Agreement- English, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Sunset Park Solar workforce training flyer
Sunset Park Solar Booklet - English, Spanish, and Chinese
New Economy Project: Lets Be Real (UPROSE - Podcast)
Sunset Park Job Training Information (PDF)
More information on Sunset Park Solar
Wind Power
UPROSE strongly believes in leveraging maritime industrial properties for the manufacturing of offshore wind components. We continue to actively explore ways in which the development of offshore wind could catalyze local ancillary businesses along the working waterfront to support the expansion of this emerging economy. In doing so, we can stimulate local economic development, prevent displacement, and promote an industrial hub that serves the entire region's climate adaptation needs.
TransPortation Climate INITIATIVE (TCI)
UPROSE anchors the Northeast regional Hub for the Climate Justice Alliance and is coordinating the organizing efforts on the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI). TCI is a policy agenda developed by 13 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and facilitated by Georgetown Climate Center, which aims to address greenhouse gas emissions from the mobile transportation sector. TCI is currently utilizing a cap, trade, and invest model to reduce transportation-related emissions, which poses many problems for environmental justice communities. Cap and trade have proven ineffective and resulted in higher emissions in environmental justice communities. TCI was developed in a vacuum for almost a decade before public engagement started in 2018. Through our organizing efforts we achieved a major victory 2 months ago by forcing TCI conveners to extend their timeline –for rolling out the final policy proposal– into next spring.
TCI threatens to undermine New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and similar or complementary state climate legislation throughout the region.
Gowanus Repowering campaign
The Gowanus Re-powering campaign is another example of how UPROSE and our partners are working on Energy Democracy in Sunset Park. Astoria Generating Company (AGC) is the private owner of two peaker power plants (the Gowanus and Narrows plants) in Sunset Park. UPROSE is also a co-founding member of the PEAK Coalition that published the “Dirty Energy, Big Money” report in May 2020. PEAK Coalition is working to replace fossil fuel peaker plants across the city and targeted in environmental justice communities with renewable energy alternatives.. Peaker power plants pollute more than regular power plants, and AGC plans to build new peaker plants or “re-power” the two peaker plants that are at the end
of their lifetimes. UPROSE is engaging in the re-powering application process through the Article X process that allows community participation. UPROSE with the technical support of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) and Earthjustice is advocating for AGC to develop clean energy and energy storage alternatives instead of their planned proposal to invest in new fossil fuel facilities.