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Drew Philpot
Jul 17, 2024
Site Selection to Minimize Interconnect Costs - Small/Medium Utility-Scale Projects
Recently, the focus of many renewable energy developers in the United States has been on large scale projects over 200 MW. As I discussed...
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Drew Philpot
Jul 5, 2024
Solar and Hail Damage - Increasing Operations and Maintenance Costs
Stories of hail damage make solar developers and O&Ms cringe because every incident makes project insurance harder to find and more...
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Drew Philpot
Jun 28, 2024
Land Use Permit Denials - Difficult Existing Zoning
This is my first post in a series on common issues that cause renewable energy projects to be denied land use permits and what developers...
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Drew Philpot
Jun 21, 2024
Land Use Permit Denials - Local Leadership Against Renewables
Continuing from my last post, another reason why renewable energy projects are denied land use permits is due to difficult local...
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Drew Philpot
Jun 14, 2024
Land Use Permit Denials - Neighbor Opposition
Most renewable energy developers who have been in the business long enough have a story about neighbors being opposed to one of their...
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Drew Philpot
Jun 7, 2024
Site Selection to Minimize Interconnect Costs - Core Problems Driving the Infrastructure Need
FERC 2023 and other recent reforms are encouraging steps to help the US power grid adapt to the energy transition. However, the risks to...
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Drew Philpot
May 31, 2024
Site Selection to Minimize Interconnection Costs - Large Scale Projects
Last week, I posted about the core reasons why new investment in the transmission grid is needed. I’m continuing with a series of posts...
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Drew Philpot
May 24, 2024
Houston Faces Critical Inflection Point amid Energy Transition
In 1914, Winston Churchill faced a difficult decision. Over two decades before his first term as Prime Minister during World War 2, he...
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