IRA Implementation: Clean Energy and Permitting Reform

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has put America on a path to reducing economy-wide emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 while creating 550,000 new clean energy jobs. The IRA is a critical part of creating America’s clean energy future and keeps the U.S. within reach of President Biden’s climate goals.

The once-in-a-generation opportunity to build out America’s clean energy resources enabled by the IRA must be accompanied by efforts to expedite the permitting process to realize the full potential of the Act.

Failure to act on permitting reform puts an estimated 100 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy projects at risk of significant delay, including over 40 GW of projects reliant on the siting and permitting of new transmission lines.