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Another type of infrastructure project is an energy facility that is used to create electricity for the grid or thermal energy for district heating, including:

 Thermal power plant (coal, oil, natural gas)

 Renewable energy (wind or solar farm)

 Hydroelectric facility

 Nuclear power plant

Energy facilities have unique challenges related to location selection. There is a balance between putting the facility near the people who will use the energy but far enough away to mitigate impacts from the energy production. The selection of an ideal project location could look at the best location from an energy production perspective (close to water for cooling or best wind/ solar resource), minimization of energy transmission requirements, availability of local labor, environmental impacts, risk and disaster response, and climate resilience.

Energy facility projects will often include a related linear infrastructure project, such as power lines. These further complicate the challenges of integrating sustainability. Like infrastructure projects, energy facility project teams need to keep in mind the difference between the overall benefit of the energy facility versus the local impacts to the environment and people living in the local community.