Algorithmic Bulldozers: How AI Is Blasting Through Clean-Energy Permitting Red Tape

The clean energy revolution is picking up speed – but a bureaucratic logjam threatens to slow it down. Across the United States, renewable energy projects face years-long delays in securing permits, land, and grid connections. Enter a new breed of startups using artificial intelligence to hack through the red tape. Companies like REplace (an AI-driven siting platform), Arcus AI (automating grid interconnection applications), and Spark (AI-guided permitting research) are aiming to compress what once took months or years into mere hours or even seconds. By shortening site selection and interconnection timelines, these tools could unlock gigawatts of stalled solar, wind,

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