Siting

Deployment
Deployment

The Issue

Demand for electricity is surging in the US, driven by rising load growth and a rapidly electrifying grid, but new electricity additions are not keeping pace.

Insufficient policymaking resources, discordant stakeholder priorities, and disparate state- and local-level reform efforts are preventing us from building a clean power system as modern and dynamic as our economy.

Our Solution

At The Siting Solutions Project, we recognize there is no silver bullet, or one-size-fits-all policy for clean energy siting; each state’s unique political, social, economic, and environmental conditions shape its ideal policy framework. We work diligently to identify and tailor policies to fit each state’s particular context.

In recent years, several state legislatures have improved renewable energy siting policies — the rules under which large-scale wind, solar, and battery storage projects receive state and local approvals — to allow responsibly designed projects to advance with less red tape.

The best of these policies support projects that capitalize on the reliability, affordability, and environmental benefits of clean energy and incorporate fulsome community input, meaningful economic benefits, and protection of the environment. Restrictive siting policies, on the other hand, are now among the top barriers to affordable, reliable, and clean energy in the United States.

E3 siting perspectives

Our Work Around the Industry

The Siting Solutions Project at Clean Tomorrow conducts rigorous analysis and stakeholder engagement to identify the most promising siting policies to maximize the benefits clean energy provides — for communities, the environment, and the electric grid. We support a wide variety of stakeholders and state policymakers across the political spectrum.

Updates

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What do Comic-Con, the Tour de France, and ACP’s Siting and Permitting Conference have in Common?

For superhero and comics aficionados, there’s Comic-Con; for cyclists, the Tour de France; and for clean energy permitting wonks, American Clean Power’s Siting and Permitting Conference. Besides swapping out cosplay and lycra for pantsuits and oxfords, the ACP Siting and Permitting Conference shares more similarities with these events than first meets the eye. Each event […]

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