News : Bold Energy Builders Meetings Aim to Generate Discussions Around “Community Benefits Agreements” and Local Paid Dividends for Energy Projects
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 23, 2026
Bold Energy Builders Meetings Aim to Generate Discussions Around “Community Benefits Agreements” and Local Paid Dividends for Energy Projects
Bold’s Jane Kleeb & Shelli Meyer will host community discussions in York (Feb. 24) and Lincoln (March 3)
York, NE – Bold Energy Builders will host community meetings in York and Lincoln, Nebraska to generate discussions around “Community Benefits Agreements” and dividends paid to communities for energy development projects. Members of the media are also invited to register and attend.
WHAT: Bold Energy Builders Community Meeting: York
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m. CT (Buffet meal provided)
WHERE: Chances R Restaurant & Lounge, 124 W 5th St., York, NE 68467
WHAT: Bold Energy Builders Community Meeting: Lincoln
WHEN: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 5:30 p.m. CT (Buffet meal provided)
WHERE: Lazlo’s South, 5900 Old Cheney Road, Lincoln, NE 68516
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.
Bold Energy Builders announced in late 2025 the signing of an historic Community Benefits Agreement with organizing partners in North Dakota, for a wind energy project that will distribute over $22 million to fund local early childcare and elder care programs, and fund restoration of a beloved community theater.
Bold wants to see more Nebraska-made energy built leaving behind more benefits and more money in people’s pockets. It’s time for us to rethink the economic model of energy projects ensuring rural communities are truly at the table as we build out America’s next 100 years of energy infrastructure, said Jane Kleeb, Bold Founder and Executive Director.
MEETING REGISTRATION PAGE:
https://boldenergybuilders.us/events
About Bold Energy Builders
Bold’s Energy Builders Project provides education, training, legal, communications, and organizing support to rural communities that want to see more clean energy built in their towns. (https://boldenergybuilders.us)
About Bold
Bold is a network of “small and mighty” groups in rural states working to protect land and water. We fight fossil fuel projects, protect landowners against eminent domain abuse, and work for clean energy solutions while building an engaged base of citizens who care about the land, water, and climate change. (https://boldalliance.org)
