There’s something alarming on our electric grid.
They’re called peaker plants. These fossil-fueled power plants only turn on when a very high amount of electricity is used — peak demand. Wildly inefficient and expensive, yet mostly small and idle, peakers give us extra-high pollution rates at extra-high costs. And when they’re doing absolutely nothing, we still pay their add-on charges on our electric bills. We have way better options than these peakers. We have better options than the oil and gas they burn. We’re tired of sending our limited money to power plants that harm people, prop up the fossil fuel industry, and enrich hedgefunds and billionaires.
Electricity costs are rising. More and more people have to decide between life-sustaining heat and cooling in their homes, rent, food, or doctors visits. We have to change this.
About 60 oil and gas powered fossil-fuel peaker plants are scattered across New England. We need you — your local knowledge, your community, your hyperspecific passions and skills, your curiosity, your laughter, your vulnerability, and your courage. We need your anger at the world as it is and your love for the world as it can be.
Come show what’s possible with us.
WE SHUT DOWN THE LAST COAL PLANT IN NEW ENGLAND!
Our grassroots resistance to coal alongside regulatory and legal battles forced Granite Shore Power to choose a clean energy future for the site of their two formerly coal-fired facilities in New England: in Bow and Portsmouth.
We have come this far together because our first commitment is to building community – an organizing space where there is always room for one more person.
We’ve named a new goal to replace the one we just achieved: shut down ALL the fossil-fuel-fired power plants that run occasionally (the peaker plants) in New England. This will free up our ratepayer dollars that are used to keep the peakers on standby so they can be used instead to hasten a just energy transition. We will put pressure on the grid to change faster. We will do it together.
