The commission has the power to reduce bills, increase energy efficiency, stop shutoffs, cut phone charges to incarcerated Louisianans, mandate repair and investment in the grid’s infrastructure, and more.
“It’s now abundantly clear that we also have to be working on adaptation, which also includes regulators,” Logan Burke, the executive director of the Louisiana-based group Alliance for Affordable Energy, told“So very often I feel like the conversation about adaptation is about our people moving elsewhere, or raising their homes, or ‘how are we gonna manage the water?’ and so forth. But our energy systems have got to adapt, and have to be responsive to people’s needs.
“There was no outreach, there was no community engagement, no conversations, especially about that [transmission] tower that fell in Orleans, and so I was kind of trying to figure out like,“I really got to a point of saying, ‘this is not sustainable for our future. Somebody has to do something about it,’” he said.
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