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Mar 2023
54m 7s

Clearing The Red Tape Around Renewables

Wood Mackenzie
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Will permitting reforms make it easier to build infrastructure projects?A group called the REPEAT Project at Princeton University calculated last year that to unlock the full emissions reduction potential of the Inflation Reduction Act, the US needed to increase its total high-voltage transmission capacity by about 2.3% a year. That is more than double the p ... Show More
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