What We Do: Our Process

For too long, developers and communities have been at odds when working to site energy projects.

This conflict is often a result of miscommunication and a series of misunderstandings, and ultimately leads to failed projects.

Emergent believes that an open, democratic process is the key to implementing successful renewable energy projects. By involving the community as a stakeholder in the process, Emergent works to ensure that the financial and social benefits that are produced locally stay local.

Here’s how it works:

Emergent executes three simple steps to build community support through engagement and profit-sharing.

1. Engage: Emergent starts a conversation through a collaborative management process, bringing together a governing body made up of a diverse group of community leaders. With this group Emergent determines which potential projects will be supported by the community well before significant money is spent by investors.
2. Incubate: Once a group of projects has been chosen by the community, Emergent works to bring these projects from conception to completion. Through this process, community members are given the first right of refusal to invest in these potentially lucrative projects.
3. Profit: Emergent ensures that profits for the projects stay local. Our Community Re:Invest Fund takes an ownership stake in each project that goes forward. This fund is then allocated to an endeavor that community members choose, whether it’s rehabilitating the local park or building a new wing on the library. As each project makes money, the fund makes more money, giving more back to the community.

Learn how this process will benefit:

• Community Members
• Municipal Government
• Neighborhood Businesses
• Project Investors