The Inflation Discount Act (IRA) represents a major milestone within the federal authorities’s motion on clear power and addressing local weather change. Nonetheless, such historic funding in our future doesn’t come with out its challenges.
The clear energy business continues to face substantial limitations to challenge deployment, which may put quite a few tasks in danger. Specifically, the siting of photo voltaic, onshore wind and storage tasks requires a large number of processes together with lease negotiations, contracts, native governing physique permits, relevant state and federal permits (environmental, wildlife, and many others.) and ongoing group engagement, all of which may enhance prices and delay or at worst terminate tasks.
However these challenges additionally current alternatives. Participating stakeholders and group members in early conversations, cannot solely reduce unfavourable outcomes, however maximize the constructive outcomes in ways in which might have initially gone unnoticed.
Allowing has by no means been within the highlight like it’s at this time. For this reason this 12 months’s Siting and Environmental Compliance Convention is extra necessary than ever. The #ACPSiting23 convention brings collectively business leaders, material consultants, environmental and land use planning professionals, and different stakeholders to sort out the burning points we face on the native degree whereas exchanging greatest practices and technical data to assist us obtain our collective objective of advancing the clear power transition. Collectively, we are able to proceed to be an business that ensures accountable, profitable, environment friendly challenge siting and allowing.
Siting convention classes will cowl points impacting onshore wind, photo voltaic, and power storage growth and can dive into:
- Coverage & Regulatory Reforms
- Allowing Challenges
- Neighborhood Engagement and Native Affairs, together with Tribal Engagement
- Decommissioning and Disposal/Finish-of-Life Methods
- Rising Applied sciences, and extra.
Along with partaking and informative classes, the convention will provide networking alternatives, exhibition area, and extra studying alternatives from poster shows that may give attendees the chance to debate challenges, options, and greatest practices one-on-one with the subject material consultants.
Be a part of ACP and lots of of siting and allowing professionals on the Siting Convention and Environmental Convention in better Albuquerque this March 28 – 29. Go to the convention homepage to view probably the most up-to-date agenda and speaker and exhibitor lists and register at this time.
