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Clean Air Task Force and others point to agency coordination, staffing and state alignment as principal causes of transmission bottlenecks
Summary
Nicole Pavia of the Clean Air Task Force told the Senate EPW committee that NEPA is improvable but not the primary cause of transmission delays; agency coordination, insufficient staffing and state jurisdictional differences were cited as key drivers keeping 2.6 terawatts of potential clean capacity in interconnection queues.
Nicole Pavia, program director for clean energy infrastructure deployment at the Clean Air Task Force, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that long-range interstate transmission is underbuilt and that permitting slowdowns arise primarily from "gaps in leadership and federal agency coordination, lack of steady appropriations for permitting related tasks, insufficient permitting expertise at agencies, data inaccessibility, and local opposition or lack of state support." She said these process and resource constraints, more than NEPA itself, explain much of the delay for transmission.
Pavia cited an industry-scale…
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