Community Energy Planning:
The Value PropositionIntroduction
- Help achieve environmental and community health goals
- Recirculate money spent on energy within a community and its region
- Contribute to achieving local economic development goals
- Create opportunities for local energy cost savings and job creation
- Help to mitigate financial risks from future carbon pricing and energy price volatility
- Contribute to strong and resilient local economies
- And achieve other broad economic impacts
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QUEST conducts and packages cutting edge applied research to empower practitioners and decision makers with the tools they need to advance Smart Energy Communities. Find out more about our projects:
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