Supplementary Information for 'Compensated Centralization: Host Community Benefits in Renewable Energy Siting

This repository contains the supplementary materials accompanying the manuscript “Compensated Centralization: Host Community Benefits in Renewable Energy Siting” (Moe, 2025).

The materials include data, code, and figures used in the mixed-methods analysis of New York State’s Host Community Benefit (HCB) program. The dataset derives from public comments submitted to the New York Public Service Commission (Case 20-E-0249), which were qualitatively coded and analyzed using network analysis to identify shared stakeholder concerns and coalitional patterns.

Contents:

• R_Script — Annotated R script for data processing, co-occurrence projection, Louvain community detection, and centrality analysis (using igraph and ggraph).

• ThemeCooccurrence_png — Theme-to-theme adjacency matrix used in co-occurrence network analysis.

• CoalitionNetwork_png — Organization-to-theme edge list used in community detection.

• CentralityTable.png — Node-level centrality measures (degree, betweenness).

• Position_and_alliance_mapping.xlsx-- qualitative coding of organizational comments
• Table, New York Permitted Solar Projects-- showng additional community benefits agreements negotiated on top of mandated HCB
• SI Tables-- PSC Public Comment questions; New York post-Accelerate Renewables Act permitted projects and beneficts agreements

All analyses were conducted in R (v4.3.2). Visualizations were created using igraph, ggraph, and tidygraph packages.