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Founded in 1985 in New Orleans, the Alliance conducts community education campaigns on energy issues, helps citizens and businesses become more energy efficient, and promotes sustainable energy policy solutions.
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Please make a donation through JustGive.org by clicking below: Your donation will support our watchdog efforts to keep our utility bills under scrutiny, and also keep energy educational programs and resources available. A donation of $25 or more automatically makes you a member of the Alliance!
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Upcoming Events


03/10/2010	Louisiana Public Service Commission Business and Executive meeting
03/10/2010	Practical heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) for homeowners
03/12/2010	LA Green Corps Business Advisory Group Breakfast
03/31/2010	Louisiana Green Corps Graduation
04/21/2010	Presentation by Enphase on in-line inverter technology

Workforce Development

The Alliance for Affordable Energy’s Workforce Development Division trains young adults in building weatherization and making energy efficiency improvements.
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Recent Updates:

Help with your utility bill

(by Alliance founder Karen Wimpelberg)

March 4 - Are you getting hot under the collar about paying your high utility bills for last month and probably this month due to the extremely cold weather? Learn ways to get help and help yourself, and learn the regulations in place for extreme weather conditions and service cutoffs.

Take action to make renewable energy a reality for Louisiana

March 4 - Thanks to odd weather and cancelled meetings, the procedural schedule for the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) docket has been extended. We now have more time to let the Louisiana Public Service Commission know that the current policy proposal is unacceptable and that our state needs real policies to encourage renewable energy production. Call or write your commissioner today and tell him that we need a strong, binding renewable portfolio standard to create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and keep our energy dollars local.

Doctor has first solar-powered home in Houma

March 1 - An orthopedic surgeon is the first resident of Houma to have his home powered by solar energy. In December, Akari Energy installed a 7KW system on the home of Dr. Brett Casey.

Read the article in the Houma Courier.

$645 million in lipstick for a dead, radioactive pig

(The following article by journalist and renewable energy advocate Harvey Wasserman first appeared in The Free Press on February 23)

March 1 - The mystery has been solved.

Where is this "new reactor renaissance" coming from?

There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error. No grassroots citizens now desperate to live near fragile containment domes and outtake pipes spewing radioactive tritium at 27 US reactors.