Horizon Climate Initiative is a Virginia-based 501(c)3 nonprofit working to make electricity clean and affordable.
HCI is a regranting organization purpose-built to end uneconomic fossil fuel power.
We identify the highest-leverage intervention points for a more affordable clean energy future and deploy capital to partners best positioned to act. HCI serves as a:
Strategic hub for research, legal intervention, and public accountability
Coordinator across rate cases, fuel cost reviews, commission dockets, and legislative campaigns at the utility commission and state level
Regrantor focused on bringing wins in market reform, commission accountability, consumer and business savings, and clean energy access
Today’s energy markets and regulators are failing consumers and suppressing innovation.
Utilities are choosing to run expensive, dirty, and outdated fossil fuel – like coal plants – instead of available cheaper alternatives, and they’re passing off billions in excess costs directly to consumers.
This manipulation is called “uneconomic dispatch,” and it prioritizes the profit interests of utilities, driving up our electricity bills, undermining market competition, and limiting opportunities for innovation.
This isn’t just a climate issue—it’s a market failure. And consumers are footing the bill.
We’re leveling the playing field for innovative energy solutions.
Restoring basic economic fairness to our energy markets will deliver immediate relief for consumers, level the playing field for 21st-century energy solutions, and meaningfully reduce emissions – without regulatory overhaul.
Horizon Climate Initiative brings together advocates and funders who want to eliminate uneconomic dispatch by educating and engaging policymakers, utility commissioners, and the public.
Recent News
Our Executive Director Frank Rambo talked with David Roberts on a special episode of the Volts podcast about why uneconomic dispatch happens, what we can do to stop this malpractice even in the face of recent federal government actions, and why putting an end to uneconomic coal power is a key to encouraging the development of clean energy.
