By Megan Day, Kate Anderson, and Sonja Berdahl, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power made a bold move to invite community-based organizations and researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop strategies that allow the communities it serves to equitably share the benefits and burdens of the energy transition.
Looking Back: Who’s Benefitted from Programs
*Low-income targeted
Looking Ahead: Problems and Solutions
Through a steering committee and listening sessions with members of community-based organizations, NREL identified how reaching the city’s goal of 100% clean energy by 2035 could exacerbate several energy challenges for disadvantaged communities and developed community-guided, innovative strategies and solutions for greater involvement and equity moving forward.
Learn more about the LA100 Equity Strategies
This work was authored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Support for the work was provided by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power under Agreement No. 47481. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.
