Community Benefits and Impacts from Offshore Wind Development

Community Benefits and Impacts from Offshore Wind Development

Goal: To collect, analyze, and disseminate information about community perspectives on the benefits and impacts of offshore wind development. Research tasks include analysis of existing community benefits arrangements, surveys of six different coastal communities on both coasts, and interviews with developers and communities.

Collaborators: Shawn Hazboun, Shana Hirsch, Jeremy Firestone, Arne Jacobson, Caroline Noblet, Teresa Johnson

Project Sponsor and Partners: US Department of Energy, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Renewable Northwest, Oregon/Maine/Washington Sea Grants.