Land values, environmental pushback and regulatory dysfunction at all levels contribute to the difficulties of developing wind projects in California, Nancy Rader, executive director of the California Wind Energy Association, said at a seminar on Developing Wind Power Projects in California.
California’s permitting process takes three to six years and costs ~$1 million to [...]
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The Sierra Club’s comprehensive comparative report, “Solar Electric Permit Fees in Southern California” details the permitting fees and times in 250 municipalities in 10 Southern California counties.
For all their inexcusable faults, our Legislature is doing one thing right: enacting laws designed to make our state a livable place for us and future generations.
Senate Bill 1 (2006), aka the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, and the California Public Utilities Commission authorized the California Solar Initiative (CSI) with the goal of installing 3,000 megawatts [...]
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