All About JustEnergy

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Justice and Mercy Energy Services (JustEnergy) combats poverty and injustice by focusing on energy access.  JustEnergy partners with other organizations that are already building the common good in their communities such as children's homes, schools, medical clinics, and women's shelters - and helps them choose, design, and install energy systems that empower their work.

Our purpose is to support existing nonprofit organizations and other groups seeking the public good with consulting regarding the design, installation, and maintenance of their energy systems. 

We envision dozens of medical clinics, orphanages, schools, churches, and nonprofit organizations making effective and efficient use of their energy systems and, therefore, better empowered to accomplish their missions.  We also imagine a local support staff that applies their unique backgrounds and cultural contexts to maintain and repair these energy systems, receives a fair wage for their services, and flourishes as human beings.

Our understanding of poverty is that its source is from our broken world: broken relationships with the environment, with each other, with our creator, and even with ourselves. We hold the biblical perspective that people are made in the image of God and are therefore worthy of love, respect, and dignity. When the conditions of poverty violate that inherent dignity, that is, when the dignity due to any person is withheld, an injustice has occurred.  Books such as Walking with the Poor, Principles and Practices of Transformational Development by Bryant Myers have been very influential in our understanding of poverty and ourselves.   

Energy poverty is lack of access to modern energy services such as electricity.  This hindrance to human flourishing is significant in the lives of many. According to the Energy Poverty Action initiative of the World Economic Forum, "Access to energy is fundamental to improving quality of life and is a key imperative for economic development. In the developing world, energy poverty is still rife. Nearly 1.1 billion people still have no access to electricity..."

 The founders of JustEnergy met at Baylor University where they were supported by the BU Missions department and worked closely with student organization Engineers with a Mission for many years.   We are grateful for our experiences and are excited about expanding into the future. 

Justice and Mercy Energy Services (DBA JustEnergy) is a 501(c)3 non-profit registered in the state of Texas.