Community Engagement Planning: Key Concepts and Methods for Developing and Implementing a Collaborative Engagement Plan

Summary

This NREL document outlines key concepts and methods for developing collaborative community engagement plans for clean energy projects. It emphasizes moving from one-way outreach to two-way, iterative collaboration, focusing on three energy justice tenets and four principles for practice: authenticity, continuity, transparency, and accountability. The session agenda includes specific time allocations like a 30-minute presentation and a 25-minute breakout session. The document details five engagement strategies, including institutionalizing knowledge via a centralized database and co-developing community-grounded indicators. An example metric for community engagement uses indicators like participation rates (25%) and feedback quality (25%). The work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308.

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