The Permitting Crisis for Renewables

The Permitting Crisis for Renewables

A solar farm 40 minutes south of Columbus, Ohio. A grid-scale battery near the coast of Nassau County, Long Island. A sprawling wind farm — capable of generating enough electricity to power 100,000 homes — at the northern edge of Nebraska.These projects — and hundreds of others — will never get built in the United States. They were blocked and ultimately killed by a regulatory sea-change that has reshaped how local governments consider and appro…