Workshop for Renewable Energy Project Permitting & Community Engagement

Local approval is getting harder. Your campaign needs to start earlier.

Clean energy projects do not win permits on facts alone. They win when developers understand local concerns, build trusted relationships and give supporters a reason to show up.

In this 3-hour training, Tigercomm will show you how to apply proven political campaign strategies to renewable energy permitting and community engagement. You’ll learn how to identify local risk earlier, reach the people who influence permitting officials and build the kind of community support that helps projects move forward.

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What You’ll Learn In This Permit Approval Workshop for Renewable Energy Developers

This clean energy permitting workshop covers five areas:

1. Map routes of influence: Understand each local permitting official and those who influence them using stakeholder mapping techniques.
2. Craft messages that resonate locally: Translate project benefits and technical details into language that reflects local priorities, concerns and values.
3. Don’t just look for supporters, make them: Balance the numbers in the room by giving people the courage to speak up for your project.
4. Plan like a campaigner: Tailor a campaign to your unique project, maximizing your resources to move the votes you need.
5. Go on the offensive: Get ahead of opposition and build the political strength to define the project on your terms.

What Your Team Leaves the Training With

• A map of who decides your permit, and who they listen to
• Messages built around what the data show communities care about
• New ways to find local supporters
• A plan for moving the votes you need
• How to define your project before opposition does

Who Should Attend

This renewable energy permitting training is built for professionals responsible for moving clean energy projects through local siting, permitting and community engagement challenges, including:

• Project developers
• Community engagement leads
• Siting and permitting specialists
• Communications and public affairs staff
• External affairs and government relations teams

Whether you are already facing organized pushback or trying to prevent it, you’ll leave with a practical framework you can apply right away.

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Meet Your Trainers

Ayelet HinesVice President of Community Engagement, Tigercomm

Ayelet brings decades of political campaign experience to the clean energy sector. She helps developers build the local relationships, messages and organizing plans needed to earn trust and secure social license for complex projects.

Her work focuses on a simple reality: permitting is no longer just a technical process. It is a local political challenge that can be solved with proven political campaign strategies.

Joe DesmondSenior Director of Campaigns and Permitting, Tigercomm

Joe spent the first half of his career in California politics and grassroots advocacy, from field director on political campaigns to leading a public affairs office in Central California. Most recently, he led community relations across Competitive Power Ventures’ renewables portfolio.

That experience, spanning 15 states, gives him a flexible blueprint for translating campaign-style tactics into community engagement strategies for solar, wind, battery storage and large-scale infrastructure projects.

Why Train with TGC?

Tigercomm has helped clean energy companies navigate high-friction local environments when permitting renewable energy and build community support for projects that need approval.

Our renewable energy community engagement team helps developers:

• Identify community risk before it becomes organized opposition
• Translate technical project benefits into local relevance
• Map routes of influence to guide your outreach and internal decisions
• Deploy supporters for maximum impact
• Reduce avoidable delays caused by poor sequencing or late engagement

Thanks to Americans for Energy Independence, this workshop is offered at a special discounted rate.