Renewable Energy School · Course 3
After the Contract: Decommissioning and Repowering
72 minutes · 4 modules of 18 minutes · Free
What this course is about
Renewable energy projects run under contracts that eventually end. This course helps communities prepare early for what happens next: decommissioning, repowering or extension, and what that means for land, jobs, the community trust and the local economy.
Who it is for
Community members, trust members, landowners, municipal planners and project staff.
What you will be able to do
- Find and read the contract and approval terms that decide what happens when a project's contract ends.
- Explain the decommissioning duties that may sit in a project's environmental authorisation.
- Ask the right questions about what happens to the community trust and its commitments.
- Contribute to planning a local economy that outlasts any single project.
Preview: the first two minutes
Module 1 · Introduction · 2 min
Animated scene (fictional, Moya, some years from now): a rumour says "the wind farm is leaving next year". A trustee, a landowner and a municipal planner each hear it, and nobody knows if it is true.
Modules
Module 1 · 18 min
When the contract ends
Find and read the contract and approval terms that decide what happens when a project's contract ends.
Module 2 · 18 min
Decommissioning duties
Explain the decommissioning duties that may sit in a project's environmental authorisation.
Module 3 · 18 min
What happens to the community trust and commitments
Ask the right questions about what happens to the community trust and its commitments.
Module 4 · 18 min
Planning economies that outlast a project
Contribute to planning a local economy that outlasts any single project.
Go deeper
- Question checklist for the end of a project's contract (worked through on screen in Modules 1 and 2).