Everyone Wants to Build Green Energy Projects. What's the Holdup? | WIRED

Proposals for wind, solar, and battery storage projects are running into a logjam of paperwork and grid connection issues.

Save this story Save this story For green energy experts, it seems like there’s too much of a good thing right now. While it’s great that there are enough wind, solar, and battery storage projects planned to meet the United States’ climate goals, a growing bottleneck in the nation’s electric grid is keeping most of these projects grounded. The problem stems from a combination of factors: aging infrastructure, a discombobulated electrical grid that makes it difficult to get renewable energy from where it is produced to where it is needed, and the overwhelmed regulators responsible for approving

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