Community Engagement
Win community approval for projects
Clean energy developers need support from local communities to build renewable energy infrastructure, such as wind and solar farms. But developers face increasingly project-fatal opposition from loud minorities of locals who organize online, then shout at local officials in the hearing room. We’ve pioneered and deployed community engagement strategies and digital best practices for developers to cut project risk and boost their ability to win the “social license” needed to secure permits from local officials.
Tigercomm employs America’s leading experts on successful community engagement for clean economy companies. We conducted the first-ever poll of rural Americans’ views of renewable energy, and surveyed the nation’s leading developers on their program’s strengths. Check out our analysis of current practices for onshore wind, micromobility and offshore wind.
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Success Story | Lightsource bp
Major Developer Raises the Bar for Responsible Solar, Wins Over Skeptics
As one of the world’s biggest solar developers, Lightsource bp is facing increasing skepticism from local residents, who are targeted with anti-renewables propaganda from the oil and gas industry. In fact, local “NIMBY” resistance (“Not In My Back Yard”) objections have led to more project cancellations, creating a multibillion-dollar threat to the entire clean energy transition.
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