Join The Energy Co-op’s Sustainer Program no membership required!
For the cost of a cup of coffee or your monthly streaming service, you can help sustain The Energy Co-op’s efforts to educate our community about the power of clean energy and consumer choice, and advocate for more affordable and accessible clean energy for all.
You can become an Energy Co-op Sustainer for as low as $5/month, and do not need to be a current Energy Co-op memberFill out our form below!
The Energy Co-op’s renewable electricity program provides a viable and seamless option for homes and businesses to reduce carbon emissions from their energy consumption. In 2025 our membership saved 3,718 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (co2e) – that’s over 8 million pounds of carbon emissions saved! We also partner with other entities to help our members learn about energy conservation, the importance of energy efficiency, and how to support renewable energy more broadly, all of which ultimately lead to additional carbon emissions savings whether direct or indirect. That’s real, quantifiable impact on carbon emissions made possible today by our dedicated membership.
In Pennsylvania, only 4% of electric generation comes from renewable sources, a meager 1% increase since 2010. In contrast, 21% of national electric generation is renewable.
Entrenched fossil fuel interests, regulatory complexities, and legislative gridlocks impact the opportunities available to Pennsylvania energy consumers: opportunities like reduced renewable energy costs, greater accessibility to renewable energy, and cleaner air. We are not seeing necessary movement in the public sphere to necessary to achieve long-term environmental sustainability.
In addition to growing our membership to replace fossil fuel consumption with renewable energy consumption, The Energy Co-op will continue to gain expertise on renewable energy opportunities for energy consumers and advocate for those opportunities to become more readily available and accessible in Pennsylvania. This means understanding energy technology, frameworks, and systems; understanding relevant legislation; and educating and mobilizing our constituency to support renewable energy transformation in Pennsylvania.
The energy co-op has served energy consumer needs for over 4 decades. The long-term need is a future brightened by renewable energy, and we believe it’s our responsibility to enable that future.
Access to reliable, clean energy should not be a privilege, it should be a right. But due to reliance on fossil fuel sources for electric generation in a market-based industry, renewable energy – while the least expensive to generate – is the most expensive for consumers to purchase. Add in legislative, regulatory, and administrative hurdles like the PJM interconnection freeze or lack of support for initiatives like RGGI or community solar, and the result is further decreased accessibility of renewable energy both from a cost and supply standpoint.
Disadvantaged communities are most negatively impacted by environmental crisis and have the most to gain from access to clean energy and more sustainable environmental practices. The energy cost burden on these communities is entrenched in every aspect of energy consumption from the energy itself to infrastructure required to support energy access and energy inefficiencies. And these communities are rarely prioritized as beneficiaries of progress in clean energy.
We have a responsibility to our membership to run an effective cooperative business, and we take that responsibility very seriously. Our mission is to be a leader of today’s sustainable energy evolution and we believe that also means we have a responsibility to energy consumers historically excluded from the benefits of clean energy progress.
Through our strategic activities, we aim to find funding opportunities to increase access to renewable energy in energy burdened communities. We will collaborate with community partners to educate community members on energy consumer rights and opportunities and mobilize community members to advocate for themselves and their energy needs. The goal is energy justice and a clean energy future for all Pennsylvanians.
The Energy Co-op is not like every other energy supplier. A co-op is member led, member driven and member-transparent. That means the power, the decision and the finances are in the hands of the members. Members have the right to know (and vote on) how energy is sourced and how the organization is run!
When you support the Energy Co Op of Pennsylvania, you aren’t ONLY helping improve the environment, you are supporting the most empowering form of organizational structure that gives anyone a say in how the company is run!
To most energy companies, this degree of transparency and member control would be revolutionary. To us, it’s just how we do business. We invite you to read our bylaws and learn all about our organization.
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