…clean energy before construction begins. In Colorado, Governor Polis’s recent executive order on permitting reform should help to accelerate the development process. Finally, the Large Load Tariff recently proposed by…
…Permitting Council, create a “U.S. Permitting Corps”—a team of innovative, interdisciplinary professionals who can be deployed alongside agency staff to complement existing permitting work, support implementation of permitting reforms, and…
…and grid operator interconnection processes. While federal permitting reform receives the most attention, most clean energy projects do not require federal approval and often get stuck due to state processes…
…needs Systems-level policy choreography: Agencies capable of synchronizing rules, guidance, financing programs, and permitting reforms on coordinated timelines rather than rolling them out in isolation. Transaction-speed infrastructure: Staffing models, underwriting…
Today we are facing persistent, complex, and accelerating environmental challenges that require adding new approaches to existing environmental governance frameworks. The scale of some of them, such as climate change,…