When communities get to make their own decisions about clean energy projects.
Clean energy projects owned by local residents, organizations, and governments create more local benefits than projects owned by outside companies and investors. By giving communities decision-making power over their own clean energy projects, local ownership maximizes economic impacts and jobs, builds community wealth and capacity, and grows public support for clean energy. Policymakers should provide more support for locally owned projects, so everyone — no matter their income or background — can share in the benefits of clean energy ownership.
Learn how locally owned clean energy maximizes local benefits and what communities are doing to make local ownership a reality.
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Bracken Hendricks discusses how Working Power, a community development and financing platform, helps community-based organizations retain ownership of clean energy projects and the financial benefits...
Highlighting Local Energy Rules podcast interviews with community leaders who overcame barriers to local ownership of clean energy.
Jeremy Kalin discusses the evolution of federal tax incentives for renewable energy and how the direct pay provision of the Inflation Reduction Act will deliver...
This post highlights several podcast interviews that prove when it comes to maximizing the benefits of clean energy projects, local ownership is the gold standard.
