Issue: Energy Policy

This guide offers strategic guidance on identifying local clean energy programs and projects, crafting compelling narratives, amplifying success stories, and advocating for the programs and investments that make these benefits possible.

The Energy Project Benefits Repository includes 328 project benefits agreements from across the energy supply chain, from mining to manufacturing to energy generation, and across global geographies.

This report shares findings from a joint study of community benefit plans (CBPs) made by utilities and developers. RMI and the University of Minnesota (UMN) Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP) collaborated on the research and analysis.

These snapshots examine development projects that incorporated different types of project agreements, such as community benefits agreements (CBAs) and good neighbor agreements, as well as projects which did not sign such an agreement, but still incorporated community engagement and delivered community benefits.  These snapshots aim to help key stakeholders, including community-based organizations, developers, and public officials, as they seek to negotiate different types of project agreements, carry out community engagement and secure localized benefits from development projects. By closely examining the strengths and weaknesses of past agreements, these snapshots are meant to help stakeholders learn and build stronger agreements and provide best practices for future engagement. Examples include: “New Flyer Community Benefits Agreement” (CA and AL), “Tallgrass-Bold Alliance CO2 Pipeline Community Benefits Agreement” (NE and WY), and “Community Benefits Snapshot: Stellantis Community Benefits Agreement” (MI) and more.