Jason Kowalski
@jasonkowalski.bsky.social
Executive Director of @publicrenewables.org. he/him.
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Jason Kowalski
@jasonkowalski.bsky.social
· Sep 18
📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org
Public Renewables Project
It’s time for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy.
www.PublicRenewables.org
1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
At the United for Green Schools panel for NYC climate week.
Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.
Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
At the United for Green Schools panel for NYC climate week.
Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.
Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
Congrats to @jasonkowalski.bsky.social and the @publicrenewables.org for getting off the ground (and, sooner or later, getting onto a rooftop near you!).
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Congrats to @jasonkowalski.bsky.social and the @publicrenewables.org for getting off the ground (and, sooner or later, getting onto a rooftop near you!).
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."
It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.
Coincidence?
I think not.
It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
adamtooze.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."
It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.
Coincidence?
I think not.
It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
In advance of climate week, @publicenterprise.bsky.social published a list of all the kinds of financial tools we've been recommending to our state and local partners.
Get wise:
publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...
Get wise:
publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...
Financial functionalities for state instrumentalities
In our work supporting state financing instrumentalities, state energy offices, and local governments in preparing clean energy deployment plans, we have often found ourselves describing the kinds of ...
publicenterprise.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In advance of climate week, @publicenterprise.bsky.social published a list of all the kinds of financial tools we've been recommending to our state and local partners.
Get wise:
publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...
Get wise:
publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
Happy to say that @publicenterprise.bsky.social supported the creation of this report and we couldn't be more excited about this project. It's a great spotlight of a really ambitious public energy development program that we could scale up across the country!!
4/ Check out our new report: Public Option Solar for K-12 Schools, coauthored w @climaterealityproject.org and @generation180.bsky.social. The Connecticut Green Bank's public developer model is a high-impact, scalable opportunity that all 50 states can replicate.
🔗 www.PublicRenewables.org/#report
🔗 www.PublicRenewables.org/#report
Public Renewables Project
It’s time for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy.
www.PublicRenewables.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy to say that @publicenterprise.bsky.social supported the creation of this report and we couldn't be more excited about this project. It's a great spotlight of a really ambitious public energy development program that we could scale up across the country!!
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
Very happy to share a new report I co-authored with @jasonkowalski.bsky.social and Tish Tablan on a stellar Connecticut Green Bank program.
The report gives you everything on the program and how to replicate it!
Next up: spreading the model across the country with @publicrenewables.org
The report gives you everything on the program and how to replicate it!
Next up: spreading the model across the country with @publicrenewables.org
3/ We’re kicking things off with a new report: Public Option Solar for K-12 Schools. With partners @climaterealityproject.org and @generation180.bsky.social we found that Connecticut publicly developed 27% of the state’s K-12 solar (2015–2023) making CT #1 in the contiguous U.S. for solar schools.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Very happy to share a new report I co-authored with @jasonkowalski.bsky.social and Tish Tablan on a stellar Connecticut Green Bank program.
The report gives you everything on the program and how to replicate it!
Next up: spreading the model across the country with @publicrenewables.org
The report gives you everything on the program and how to replicate it!
Next up: spreading the model across the country with @publicrenewables.org
1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️
📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org
Public Renewables Project
It’s time for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy.
www.PublicRenewables.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
Reposted by Jason Kowalski
Want a blueprint for pivoting from climate rollbacks to a strategic climate offense?
That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal.
The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal.
The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
Blueprint for a Popular Climate Agenda
The path forward is climate policy written not about impacted workers and communities, but by them.
democracyjournal.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Want a blueprint for pivoting from climate rollbacks to a strategic climate offense?
That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal.
The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
That's my focus in a new article out today in Democracy Journal.
The path forward is a new climate agenda written not about impacted workers & communities, but by them.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...