MID-HUDSON
Energy Transition

Hi! We're MHET!

We are a local, Kingston-based non-profit whose mission is to empower municipalities, residents, and businesses to own and share renewable energy, create healthier buildings, and join in community wealth-building to strengthen the resilience of the Hudson Valley in the face of climate change.

MHET believes that by taking our energy future into our own hands we will build a just, resilient, stable, and affordable future. This means including everyone as we transition away from fossil energy, making homes and businesses more energy efficient, and creating new forms of community energy ownership and wealth-building.

Based in Kingston, Kingston Focused.

Our community-centric approach leverages local knowledge, facilitates local control, and provides opportunities for community ownership of shared clean energy resources. We engage and build on the active involvement of communities, and their elected and grassroots leaders, with particular emphasis on low-income, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color that have been disproportionately harmed by the extractive energy economy and continue to experience the effects of climate change first and worst. All community and faith-based groups, residents, and businesses in the cities that we work with are invited to share their expertise and help design local energy programs.

We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Schaghticoke, Munsee Lenape, and Mohican People who were removed unjustly, and that we in this community are the beneficiaries of that removal. We honor them as we live, work, and learn here at Mid-Hudson Energy Transition.

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Our Values

Our organization is committed to upholding the following values:

Energy Democracy

We strive to increase knowledge, ownership, and local control of energy systems.

Energy Justice

We prioritize populations that have been historically harmed, such as Black, Indigenous, People of Color and low-income communities, and renters.

Resilience

We aim to build the capacity to survive climate disruptions.

Cooperation

We believe in working across differences to arrive at shared, beneficial outcomes.