Improvements to the electrical grid need permits from local, state, and often federal authorities before work can begin. The permitting process, while necessary and important, frequently adds extra expense and creates bottlenecks that delay time-sensitive projects by as many as six years.

Removing unnecessary delays and prioritizing clean energy projects is critical to meeting our climate goals in time.

While many of us advocate for more renewable energy sources, few realize that we already have enough clean energy projects planned to meet our climate goals, but they are stuck in an increasingly longer queue waiting to be plugged into the aging electric grid.

In addition, many more transmission lines are needed to carry the renewably generated electricity from the rural areas where the largest solar arrays and wind farms are located to cities that need this electricity.

It is imperative that local and state-level bureaucratic red tape be reduced, and equally important that communities located near planned projects are both heard and protected.

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