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See It to Believe It: Principles for Effective Clean Energy Tax Policy
As developers seek buy-in for renewable energy projects across the country, smarter tax policy can provide substantial, predictable revenues for communities and create more project finance certainty.
The State of Siting: 2026 Legislative Round-Up
Clean energy projects bring real economic benefits—hundreds of millions in capital investment and significant property tax revenue with minimal infrastructure demands. Yet local opposition is rising rapidly.
A Win-Win Solution for Clean Energy Siting
State policy tools for improving community outcomes, providing developer certainty, and accelerating deployment.
Development Agreements Deliver Better Community Benefits and More Developer Certainty for Clean Energy Projects
Clean energy projects bring real economic benefits—hundreds of millions in capital investment and significant property tax revenue with minimal infrastructure demands. Yet local opposition is rising rapidly.
Comparison of Property Tax Treatment for Solar and Battery Storage in Seven States
This report compares how seven states, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, treat property taxes for a hypothetical solar-plus-battery storage project.
Renewable Energy Siting Policy Field Guide
The Siting Solutions Project conducts research and engages with stakeholders to identify the most promising siting policies to maximize the benefits clean energy provides — for communities, the environment, and the electric grid.
The State of Siting: 2025 Legislative Round-Up
Grounded in our expertise on state policy approaches to renewable siting, this report summarizes state legislatures’ efforts to change clean energy siting policy in 2025.
State Policy Approaches to Renewable Energy Siting
The first report in our Insight Report series clarifies siting policy options and empower others to improve state and local siting policies.
State of Siting | May 2026
Activity on siting policy is slowing down now that most state sessions have ended. 12 more states adjourned in May
State of Siting | April 2026
As we near the end of a short session year, and more legislatures wrap up their work, we’re starting to see where siting policy landed in each state.
State of Siting | March 2026
In a short session year, legislatures in some states are already wrapping up their work, and siting legislation was a topic of hot debate.
State of Siting | February 2026
For many states, legislative sessions in even-numbered years are often half the length of an odd-year session, so that legislators can adjourn early to begin their reelection campaigns.
The State of Siting | June 2025
Clean Tomorrow is currently tracking over 300+ siting-related bills in 47 states.
The State of Siting | April 2025
We’ve expanded our legislative monitoring and are now tracking over 400+ siting-related bills in 45 states.
The State of Siting | March 2025
So far this year, we’re tracking 67 siting bills introduced in 31 states.
The State of Siting | February 2025
So far this year, we’ve seen siting legislation introduced in at least 27 states.
New Report: Restrictive Clean Energy Bills Continued to Dominate State Legislatures in 2026, But Almost None Became Law
Siting Solution Project’s Annual Legislative Round-Up Tracks 201 Bills Across 40 States.
New White Paper Outlines Recommendations to Strengthen Community Buy-In and Neutralize Regulatory Uncertainty for Clean Energy Projects
Siting Solutions Project and University of Texas Law Professor Highlight State Policy Tools for Accelerating Clean Energy Deployment.
Siting Solutions Project Releases New Siting Policy Field Guide to Accelerate Renewable Energy Deployment
New report outlines six principles and four proven policy models to help states overcome the nation’s biggest clean energy bottleneck.
Pennsylvania’s Energy Bottleneck Is Local Siting, Not the PJM Queue
When it comes to building new power generation, Pennsylvania is falling behind. A new analysis from Synapse Energy Economics, prepared for the Siting Solutions Project, shows why.
State Siting Done Right: Michigan’s First PA 233 Approval Proves the Safety Net Model Works
On August 27, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) granted its first-ever certificate under the state's landmark 2023 renewable energy siting law, Public Act 233. A deeper look reveals an even more promising trend: local permitting is working.
Virtual Briefing – The State of Siting: 2026 Legislative Round-Up
In this webinar, the Siting Solutions Project team provide deep dive into the report’s findings – including which states had major siting achievements in 2026 and how defensive coalitions repeatedly stopped restrictive bills.
New Report from Strategic Economic Research Compares State Approaches to Taxing Renewable Energy Projects
Renewable energy is booming in the United States—and so are the benefits delivered by these projects. Wind, solar, and battery storage just had their best third quarter ever for new installations.
Behind the CRGA Act: Illinois’ Push for Improved Renewable Energy Siting
On the last day of the session, Illinois’ General Assembly passed the package of comprehensive energy reforms and sent it to Governor Pritzker, who signed the bill last week.
Renewable Energy Breaks Even at State Legislatures Despite Deluge of Restrictive Siting Bills
It has been a busy policy year for the renewable energy industry: legislators in nearly every state introduced hundreds of bills to change the rules under which large-scale wind, solar, and battery storage projects receive state and local approvals.
Siting Solutions Spotlight: Programmatic Environmental Reviews
Before shovels hit the ground on any clean energy project or transmission line, developers must navigate a complex web of approvals. At both the state and federal levels, environmental review is a central part of that process.
The Siting Solutions Project Releases First Report Detailing State Policy Approaches to Renewable Energy Siting
The report summarizes all 15 renewable energy siting policy mechanisms used across the continental US as of April 2025, along with policy considerations and detailed state examples.
What do Comic-Con, the Tour de France, and ACP’s Siting and Permitting Conference have in Common?
For superhero and comics aficionados, there’s Comic-Con; for cyclists, the Tour de France; and for clean energy permitting wonks, American Clean Power’s Siting and Permitting Conference.