Streamlining planning and permitting to accelerate wind and solar deployment - Solution Toolkit for Wind & Solar Developers

This resource sets out the context and major challenges around planning & permitting and assessing the impact of deploying key solutions to reduce delays in development and delivery of renewable energy projects. This resource posits that planning and permitting challenges have negative effects at almost all stages of renewables deployment, severely lengthening project timelines, and reducing project pipelines. Putting into place simple measures to streamline planning and permitting regimes could reduce project development times by more than half for wind and solar projects, while maintaining or strengthening social and environmental standards. This solution toolkits outline specific recommended actions for wind and solar developers.