Eight facts about permitting and the clean energy transition Lauren Bauer The Hamilton Project and the Brookings Institution Wendy Edelberg The Hamilton Project and the Brookings Institution Cameron Greene The Hamilton Project Olivia Howard The Hamilton Project Linsie Zou The Hamilton Project May 2024 Contents Contents iii Introduction 1 1. [...] Figure A to assess the usefulness of extant permits and their shows that the two leading causes of cancellation of processes to minimize or remove barriers to building wind and solar projects in the five years before the poll clean energy infrastructure. [...] We estimate the duration of the projects using the earliest milestone date as the start date, and the latest milestone date as the completion date. [...] During this rapid evolution, the electricity struments that have different effects depending on system must reliably meet the fundamental challenge the type of technology, the stage of development, and that electricity generation must equal consumption at the sector of the economy. [...] In this economics facts document, The Hamilton Proj- Twelve economic facts on energy and climate ect and the Energy Policy Institute at the University change of Chicago provide useful context for a discussion of the dangers to the economy posed by climate change The Hamilton Project and Energy Policy Institute at the and the policy tools for addressing and mitigating University of Chicago, March 2.
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- Contents 5
- Introduction 7
- Few wind and solar projects required significant federal permits between 2010 and 2021. 9
- Federal permitting durations have decreased in the past 15 years. 10
- Most lawsuits contesting wind and solar projects are at the state or local level. 11
- Local ordinances constrain where and how clean energy projects are developed. 12
- More than 300 counties have banned or instituted moratoria on wind or solar projects. 13
- More than a thousand projects are withdrawn from the interconnection queue every year. 14
- Interconnection has been getting slower over the past 20 years. 15
- There is more energy storage and generation capacity in the queue than operating online. 16
- Selected Hamilton Project papers on climate and permitting reform 17
- Technical appendix 20
- References 23