Community-Driven Energy Planning Workshop

Upcoming Workshop Dates:

Community-Driven Energy Planning on Mount Desert Island

Wednesday, April 30, 5:30 - 7:00, arrive at 5:00 to enjoy some pizza and socialize!

Location: Open Table MDI, 116 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

ACTT is excited to bring the community-driven energy planning workshop and accompanying game to MDI. Join us Wednesday evening, April 30 for collaborative learning, game playing, dinner, and fun! This workshop is appropriate for participants ages 13 and older and is ideal for a mixture of formal and informal community leaders and interested citizens. Anyone with an interest in MDI’s energy future is encouraged to attend. 

Space is limited; register at this link today. Thank you!

About the workshop

ACTT designed this workshop to support communities in planning for the energy future and participating in the transition to renewable energy in a way that maximally aligns with local priorities and benefits the local community.

Community-driven energy solutions are planned and implemented with community participation at the center of the process and align with local priorities, build local equity, leadership, and empowerment, and multi solve intersecting front-burner issues while taking advantage of local opportunities.

This workshop focuses on supporting participants in developing an understanding of what community-driven renewable energy solutions are and the role they can play in addressing energy vulnerability and inequity and then playing a game designed to facilitate participants in identifying the renewable energy solutions most relevant to their community’s specific needs.

Interested in bringing the workshop series to your community? Contact ACTT to learn more at beth@aclimatetothrive.org.

Workshop Background

The pilot of this workshop took place as a series of gatherings over the Fall of 2024 working with Norway, Otisfield, and West Paris, Maine, delivered in collaboration with The Center for an Ecology-Based Economy and funded by the SOLVE IT Prize from the U.S. Department of Energy.