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Economic Resilience and Solutions for Coal-Reliant Communities
- 1. Economic Resilience and the Coal Transition Suzanne Tegen NADO April 12, 2023
- 5. Tracker Map - Global Energy Monitor Operating, Retired and Cancelled U.S. Coal Plants
- 7. ENERGY TRANSITION ACADEMY: Community Resilience Solutions for Policymakers ENERGY TRANSITION ACADEMY: Empowering Coal Communities and Investing in Workers Connecting people who can impact and people who are impacted, including: • Coal workers, coal community members and leaders • Tribal leaders, members, non-profits • Mayors, county commissioners, economic development professionals • State officials (regulators, state energy office, governor’s office, legislators) • Regional planners • Federal government • Lessons learned – building trust takes longer than you think. Start where they are. • “Number of jobs” is no longer the metric for economic development. • Best practice – let coal workers and their community members be heard.
- 8. Community planning – procedural justice
- 9. Solutions and Ideas for Coal-reliant Communities • Every location is different – solutions will also be context-specific. Fund engagement. • Many places have time to plan – transparency and long-term thinking are essential. • Local leadership is key to bring wealth and keep wealth in communities. • Hire local coal workers to perform remediation or whatever comes next for the site.
- 10. Suggestions from a Coal Worker o Financial Literacy o Job Skills, job Training o Technology Support o Food & Fuel Support o Health Care “No one can deny that this immediate change will result in multiple social-emotional upheavals to impacted coal miners. The efforts must include not only the coal miner, but his/her family and children including the impact on schools who are charged with dealing with the effects of job loss in the classroom.” - Former coal truck driver
- 11. Federal Resources Department of Labor - develop, strengthen, and scale equitable pathways to good infrastructure jobs at www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20230405 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Financing – loan guarantee created by IRA administered by DOE’s Loan Program Office. $250 Billion in loan guarantees for projects that retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure that has ceased operations or enable GHG or air pollution emission reduction. Energy Community Tax Credit Bonus – up to 10% for projects located in energy communities Deploy New Clean Energy Project on Mine Lands. The DOE made $450 million (BIL) to advance clean energy on current and former mine land. So much more! See energycommunities.gov
- 13. To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein Suzanne Tegen Suzanne.tegen@colostate.edu
- 15. Resources CNEE Communities in Transition Microdocumentaries from Moffat County, Colorado (4-8 minutes) Just Transition Fund – Resources Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities is at energycommunities.gov
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- Of course its not just coal that’s retiring
- one party might think this community just wants to replace jobs as quickly as possible. Another may say they have no tolerance for industries that will pollute their air and use their water for fossil fuel generation, or even for batteries or hydrogen. We need to find the balance when working with communities, not letting our own agenda override people who live and work in these towns. It’s their life – we don’t live there. How can utilities engage? – A good example is Tri-State working with Dept of Workforce Solutions in NM during the closure of the Escalante Plant.
- Not our last transition. Bipartisan collaboration.
- When a community loses a lot of jobs at once, domestic violence increases, drug and alcohol addiction increases, and suicides increase. This is at the same time when people who donated to local mental health organizations like wealthier income earners or employers are losing money or pulling out of communities. People are scared and uncertainty looms large. It is time for economic and social investment to help the community get through the transition to the other side.
- First, the map shows the census tracts and directly adjoining tracts that have had coal mine closures since 1999 or coal-fired electric generating unit retirements since 2009. These census tracts qualify as energy communities. Second, the map shows the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non-metropolitan statistical areas (non-MSAs) that have had 0.17% or greater direct employment related to extraction, processing, transport, or storage of coal, oil, or natural gas. Only a subset of these MSAs and non-MSAs will qualify as energy communities (Source: US DOE) The IRA defines energy communities as: A “brownfield site” (as defined in certain subparagraphs of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)) A “metropolitan statistical area” or “non-metropolitan statistical area” that has (or had at any time after 2009) 0.17% or greater direct employment or 25% or greater local tax revenues related to the extraction, processing, transport, or storage of coal, oil, or natural gas; and has an unemployment rate at or above the national average unemployment rate for the previous year 3. A census tract (or directly adjoining census tract) in which a coal mine has closed after 1999; or in which a coal-fired electric generating unit has been retired after 2009 To date, the Energy Communities IWG has driven more than $14.1 billion in federal investment to energy communities, including $480 million in American Rescue Plan funds for economic development, $877 million for abandoned mine land reclamation, and $134 million in the largest-ever Appalachian Regional Commission awards to coal communities.
- 23% of the 200,568 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired capacity currently operating in the United States has reported plans to retire by the end of 2029, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. (Nov 2022)