Support SWEEP’s fight for a cleaner, more energy-efficient future in Arizona
For nearly 25 years, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) has championed energy efficiency and clean energy solutions across the Southwest. Through advocacy, partnerships, and innovative initiatives, SWEEP has helped Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming lead the way in addressing the climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric grid, advancing transportation electrification, and supporting comfortable, efficient homes featuring electric appliances. Our efforts in these states have strengthened energy efficiency standards, promoted cleaner transportation options, and ensured that income-qualified households can benefit from the clean energy transition.
Below are some of SWEEP's accomplishments, spearheaded by our Arizona staff, that drive Arizona as a model for clean and affordable energy and environmental stewardship. With your donation, we can continue tackling the challenges ahead, driving impactful solutions for a cleaner, healthier, and more transformative Arizona and Southwest region. Here’s what we’ve accomplished recently — with your help on Arizona Gives Day, we can do even more!
Advancing clean energy and electrification investments
In the face of federal funding freezes, SWEEP is taking a bold stand to defend federal dollars that directly benefit Arizonans. By spearheading a united effort, SWEEP is fighting to safeguard every available dollar for money-saving energy efficiency, transportation electrification, and clean energy programs that transform homes and communities.
Shaping utility planning and investment for a clean energy future
SWEEP successfully advocated for Arizona’s utility regulatory agency — the Arizona Corporation Commission — to preserve access for stakeholders like conservation and consumer groups to the modeling that utilities use in developing their Integrated Resource Plans, which outline the resources they plan to use to meet future energy demand. Additionally, SWEEP played a key role in reversing unfavorable resource generation mandates and ensuring utilities remain obligated to optimize their models using best practices to promote more effective, data-driven planning.
We also influenced Arizona’s largest utilities — Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP), and Tucson Electric Power (TEP) — to improve their energy efficiency and clean energy programs, advocating for demand-side management and electrification investments.
SWEEP successfully advocated for SRP to strengthen its carbon reduction goal, increasing its 2035 emissions reduction commitment by 10%, as well as its energy conservation and electric vehicle goals. We also intervened in key electric and gas utility rate cases, to prevent unjustified cost increases and ensure fair treatment of energy efficiency programs.
As a member of the Resource Planning Advisory Council for TEP and APS, SWEEP has pushed for both utilities to reduce energy use by at least 1.3% each year. This target is among the most ambitious in the nation and supports TEP’s goal of cutting carbon emissions by 80% by 2035.
Supporting underserved communities
SWEEP has successfully championed initiatives that enable utilities to provide energy efficiency and electrification upgrades in hundreds of households with limited and fixed incomes, as well as in homes located on Indigenous lands, such as the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe. These robust programs not only uplift income-qualified households but also make significant strides in supporting historically underserved communities through vital health and safety improvements while conserving energy.
SWEEP also partnered with state agencies, local governments, and stakeholders to shape federal programs available for Arizona residents to invest in energy-saving technologies that help customers make their homes healthy and more comfortable, while reducing the amount of energy they consume. SWEEP’s work helped to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding into the state.
Join us in driving change
SWEEP’s impact is made possible by people like you. Your Arizona Gives donation helps us continue the fight for a cleaner, healthier, and more energy-efficient Southwest. Stand with us — because every dollar supports our mission!
SWEEP is dedicated to building a healthy, equitable, and low-carbon future through energy efficiency, electrification, and clean transportation across the southwestern United States. SWEEP works in partnership with utilities, governments, businesses, nonprofits, and elected officials to develop and advocate for non-partisan, cost-effective strategies that benefit all communities, with a focus on those that have faced historic inequities.
As technical experts, thought leaders, and policy advocates, SWEEP’s staff drive impactful solutions that make energy use in buildings, transportation, and industry as clean and low-carbon as possible. We envision a world where everyone has access to affordable, clean energy and mobility options, fostering a thriving economy, healthy environment, and sustainable future for all.
SWEEP is a public interest nonprofit founded in 2001, focused on advancing energy efficiency, electrification, and clean transportation across Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Collaborating with utilities, governments, nonprofits, businesses, and federal agencies, SWEEP promotes impactful programs and policies that help mitigate climate change, support underserved communities, and save people money on energy and transportation. Funded by charitable foundations, federal agencies, business allies, and major donors, SWEEP has led the Southwest in significant progress on energy efficiency, emission reductions, and climate resilience.
Organization name
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP)
other names
SWEEP
2001
Tax id (EIN)
84-1593046
Category
Environment, Public & Societal Benefit, Science & Technology
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
2334 Broadway Ste ACO, US
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