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Empowering America’s energy communities to thrive economically and ensuring they remain great places to work, live and raise families.
(Last updated: 1/16/25)
(Last updated: 1/16/25)
(Last updated: 1/16/25)
(Last updated: 1/16/25)
(Last updated: 1/16/25)
For generations, the men and women working in America’s energy communities fueled the nation’s prosperity.
Today, the Energy Communities Working Group is committed to positioning America’s energy communities for long-term economic growth by:
Prioritizing private sector-driven energy investments.
Enhancing domestic supply chain to boost energy independence.
Fostering efficient intergovernmental collaboration for streamlined projects.
Supporting initiatives to encourage local collaboration in economic projects.
Revitalizing fossil energy assets for continued use in modernized ways.
The Getting Started Guide is intended to help communities and workers start the process of planning or responding to economic and social changes resulting from coal mine and power plant closures.
This step-by-step guide and planning tool is designed to be applicable to any stage of economic transition. It is meant to help community leaders, volunteers, change agents and other eligible entities access federal funds to address economic resiliency.
Energy Communities Working Group Three-Year Overview
With more work ahead, the Energy Communities Working Group spent the last three-plus years actively supporting energy communities and workers nationwide to support locally led efforts to revitalize their economies. Learn more in this video!