Leveraging Community Benefit Frameworks: Empowering Communities to Benefit from Federally Funded Energy Projects: Proceedings of a Workshop

By: Office of Special Projects and Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences and Policy and Global Affairs and Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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Synopsis: On May 16-17, 2024, the National Academies held a workshop to explore how various stakeholder engagement strategies can support communities that may host federally funded energy infrastructure projects. During the event, experts from national and regional community-based organizations, academia, federal agencies, and private-sector project developers shared successful case studies and discussed best practices for negotiating community benefits. This proceedings summarizes the workshop discussions and synthesizes the key lessons learned.