What is the Purpose of the Guidebook and Toolkit?

As communities begin to generate electricity, there are important considerations for the long term. Engaging in a planning process that integrates discussion of key challenges that communities and their partners face, will help enable communities to establish high quality and relevant generation projects that respond to the needs of their communities for energy resilience, economic development, long-term operations, and ensure that projects are shovel-ready when funding is available.

The community generation guidebook and toolkit will primarily be geared to support rural and indigenous communities in developing distributed energy generation capacity. The guide will be focused on responding to the needs of decision makers, such as Mayors, Chiefs, Bands, Councils and Administrative Officers in navigating the process from ideation to operations. The toolkit will support the needs of planners, building managers, and other technical and engineering specialists in the technical details of the concept to construction process.