Full Title: Community Hubs to Support Energy Transition
Author(s): Wesley Look, Mark Haggerty, Daniel Mazzone
Publisher(s): Resources for the Future
Publication Date: February 15, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
The increasing competitiveness of clean energy and growing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are reshaping the US energy economy. For energy communities—cities, towns, and regions with deep ties to fossil fuel production and electricity generation—this transition may pose significant costs for workers, businesses, and local governments. Federal investments through things such as workforce development and infrastructure expansion can mitigate such costs and provide new opportunities for prosperity.
This issue brief provides an overview of federally supported community hubs as a policy option to support local development efforts in energy regions in transition.