Please note all bills following (**) indicates bipartisan support for the legislation.
Incentives for Streamlining Clean Energy Siting & Permitting:
ColoradoS.B.212 (enacted 2024): Provides resources to local governments to assess, site, and permit utility-scale renewable energy projects while setting best management practices to avoid, minimize, and mitigate wildlife and land impacts.
**Indiana S.B. 411 (enacted 2022): Establishes voluntary default standards for siting wind power projects and commercial solar projects. If a community adopts the default standards or standards less restrictive than the default standards, communities are designated as a solar or wind ready community to make clear which communities are ready for renewables.
Creating Standards & Authority for Streamlining Clean Energy Siting and Permitting:
Minnesota S.F. 4942 (enacted 2024): Streamlines the energy permitting process by creating two separate review processes: a standard review for smaller wind and solar projects and power lines and a more intensive review for larger projects.
**Washington H.B.1216/S.B.5380 (enacted 2023): Streamlines permitting by establishing the Interagency Clean Energy Siting Coordinating Council, expediting environmental reviews by amending the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), and establishing a new program for the designation of Clean Energy Projects of Statewide Significance (CEPSS).
