A Clean Energy District is a local institution created to strengthen communities by leading, implementing and accelerating the
locally owned clean energy transition. Fair access to locally owned clean energy is a win-win generating community-wide energy prosperity and climate stewardship.

Energy District Community Strengthening Key Principles:

• Local leadership exists everywhere. Energy Districts empower local
  champions to lead the clean energy transition.
• Energy is complicated, so Energy Districts lead by doing. Energy Districts
  put boots on the ground providing technical assistance with high quality
  energy audit services, direct installation of energy saving measures and
  providing high quality advanced energy planning services.
• When Green Meets Green, communities unite and thrive. Locally owned
  energy efficiency and renewables create jobs, retain wealth, and build energy
  prosperity (one green), and simultaneously advance climate stewardship
  (another green). Ownership matters.
• Energy Districts are INCLUSIVE, and UNIVERSAL REPLICATION is fully possible
  We all do better when we all do better, and the clean energy future will
  happen of, by, and for the people.

How Energy Districts Work

ENERGY PLANNING is energy auditing that WORKS! It includes efficiency
and renewable energy, and should be available to every farm, home, business,
and institution.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT is that broad swath of education, awareness, and
communications, leveraging other work.
MARKET TRANSFORMATION tunes up all cylinders of the local clean
energy economy for smooth acceleration that supports contractors and
businesses, creates good jobs, and keeps growing energy dollars local.
ADVOCACY priorities at the state and local levels grow out of and support
boots-on-the-ground implementation work.
READINESS is also known as climate preparedness, or adaptation, and
must be a community-wide and ongoing process for a generation or more.