Our Mission
EmPower Consumers overarching mission is to minimize financial hardships that arise as public policy makers and providers of electric power address energy policy issues intended to transition us to a greener environment. Our goals are:
- To ensure affordable electric power for all consumers;
- To ensure consumers are included in all substantive policy discussions, especially the consumer rate impact of climate change policies;
- To ensure policymakers always consider affordability of energy to consumers when crafting new environmental laws;
- To serve as an instrument through which consumers express their preferences and perspectives on energy use and energy policies to electric power providers and policy makers;
- To serve as an advocate for consumers as tradeoffs and decisions are made by policy makers in an effort to achieve reliable and safe electric power with minimal impact on the environment
- To gain consumers' commitment to take an active role in reducing ones energy consumption and contribute to solving the energy affordability crisis; and
- To provide consumers facts and information on the subject of electric generation, transmission and distribution, conservation and consumption