A place to connect, share, and strategize with others working to get fossil fuels out of buildings to ensure affordable, healthy, comfortable places to live, work, play, and pray. Main areas of focus for 2023 include:

1. Energy efficiency policies and measures that center the needs of low-income and BIPOC communities
2. Equitable building electrification, especially in rural areas

We are advocates, strategists, and organizers who are working to ensure people have access to and participate in democratic processes. Why? Because we cannot reach our north start goal if voices are stifled and votes are not counted. Environmental justice, clean energy, and broader movements have an untapped opportunity to build people power to achieve change through our democratic processes. This group is meant for non-partisan, c3 friendly voter engagement collaboration including resource sharing, strategy setting, action coordination, and peer support through 2024 Election Day and beyond.

Focus Areas for 2024 include:
1. Expanding leadership and engagement in BIPOC communities
2. Building capacity for grassroots influence on public officials
3. Voter registration and mobilization

This is a space designated for people to discuss the democratic authenticity of Rural Electric Co-ops and share relevant resources and information. Working within RE-AMP’s vision for Energy Democracy, the working group has identified 4 focus areas for 2024 to take back member power and advance models of locally-produced, democratically-owned power:
1. Developing best practices for member-owner organizing and board election campaigns
2. Demystifying and challenging all-requirement contract structures to unlock distributed generation capacity and improve democratic authenticity
3. Increasing coop transparency through grassroots organizing and/or legislative campaigns
4. Ensuring maximum utility participation in IRA programs and authentic community engagement during implementation

Enabling people to get where they need to go without having to drive, and making motorized transportation cleaner. Main areas of focus are:

1. Leveraging local climate plans to ensure transportation and land use planning promotes policies that are good for people and the climate.
2. Leveraging federal funding for transit, active transportation, and other tools to enable people to get where they need to go without having to drive.
3. Creating moratoria on highway expansions, and re-connecting communities.

Clean Energy Working Group Long Term (5-10 year) Objectives:-Put RE-AMP states on a trajectory for 80% reduction in global warming pollution by 2050 by promoting the technology, policy, and regulatory tools to achieve and accelerate RE-AMP state renewable energy targets. -Build necessary capacity and drive down the cost of emerging renewable energies by supporting diverse technologies and achieving significant deployment of renewable generation, storage, and transmission. Foster an environment that is supportive to renewable energies by enabling local renewable energy manufacturing, generation, and ownership.– Clean Energy Working Group Midterm Objectives (2-3 years).– RE-AMP Network clean energy projects

The Eco-Justice committee.

The group for all RE-AMP members in Illinois.

The Learning and Progress Committee is responsible for the continued development of the Learning and Progress system (L&P). The L&P is a reporting tool that is designed to help speed the sharing of information, to facilitate co-learning, to inform decisions on launching new initiatives, and to improve and streamline RE-AMP

The Media Center is a team of media professionals working with the RE-AMP network to provide services related to message framing, tracking, and promotion.

The group for all RE-AMP members in Michigan.

The group for all RE-AMP members in North Dakota.

For communication between RE-AMP and primary contacts of RE-AMP Member Organizations

This is an ad hoc committee

The group for all RE-AMP members in South Dakota.

This group is for state table communication between RE-AMP members engaged in the network in the State of Wisconsin.

As of June 2023, Leadership Team members are: Lizzie Condon (Wisconsin Academy), Tony Wilkin Gibart (Midwest Environmental Advocates), Robin Lisowski (SlipStream), Montre Moore (Wisconsin NAACP), and Chuck Tennessen (Driftless Area Land Conservancy). Kaysee Beckstrom (Clean Wisconsin) provides administrative support.

If you have questions, please contact the WCT Coordinator, Susan Gaeddert at susan@1kfriends.org