The Future of Siting and Permitting

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents new opportunities to radically accelerate the speed at which we can build infrastructure by bringing new capabilities to complex review, siting, and permitting processes. Siting and permitting challenges can significantly reduce deployment potential. For example, the National Renewable Energy Lab found that geothermal energy deployment is reduced by as much as 50% because of permitting challenges. AI tools can accelerate this process by enabling developers, environmental reviewers, and communities to improve project design, bring new efficiencies to time-consuming processes, increase public engagement, accelerate deployment of energy technologies, and enable new research opportunities.

Join this session to explore:

• What’s the future of siting and permitting look like for energy projects, and how is and can AI play a role?
• What are the limits of AI for siting and permitting?
• What near term actions we can take today to accelerate advanced sitting and permitting technology deployment?

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