News : Bold Energy Builders Hosts Community Discussions on American Energy
By Shelli Meyer
Bold Energy Builders is hosting community meetings in Nebraska, North Dakota and Illinois, to generate discussions around “Community Benefits Agreements” and dividends paid to communities for energy development projects.
Bold Energy Builders community discussion in Lincoln, NE (March 3, 2026)
During recent meetings in York (Feb. 24) and Lincoln (March 3) Nebraska, Bold Founder and Executive Director Jane Kleeb and Nebraska Director Shelli Meyer hosted informative discussions that yielded great questions from folks who showed up to participate and share a meal.
Energy Builders community discussion in York, NE (Feb. 27, 2026)
Bold Energy Builders Project Director Mike Graalum also hosted town hall and open house events in Fargo and Casselton, North Dakota in March, while Cindy Shepherd, B0ld Energy Builders’ Organizer in Illinois, has upcoming community meetings in the works.
The Bold Energy Builders project organizes unlikely alliances with the goal of justly building more clean energy, providing education, training, legal, communications and organizing support to rural communities who want to see more clean energy built in their towns.
At the center of the Energy Builders project is working with local residents to develop Community Benefits Agreements, including an American Energy Dividend to those that live in the viewshed of wind and solar. We believe more money in people’s pockets, while adding more American-made energy on the grid, can change the game in rural America – putting those who live on the land and in our rural towns in the driver’s seat. We are looking at America’s next 100 years of energy.