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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Right this moment the U.S. Bureau of Land Administration (BLM) revealed ultimate guidelines to manipulate leasing and rental charges for renewable vitality initiatives on public lands. The final rules carefully comply with suggestions from the Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation (SEIA) to streamline clean energy development on federal lands.
The brand new guidelines will:
- Cut back rents and charges for renewable vitality initiatives by 2035 and get rid of duplicative funds for renewable vitality builders;
- Lengthen lease phrases for renewable initiatives to 50 years;
- Take away aggressive leasing necessities in precedence growth areas; and
- Make it simpler to develop standalone vitality storage initiatives on public lands.
Following is a press release from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of SEIA on BLM’s ultimate guidelines:
“Right this moment the U.S. Bureau of Land Administration (BLM) codified SEIA’s suggestions to make it quicker, simpler, and cheaper to construct clear vitality initiatives on public lands. We have to pull each lever we will to effectively deploy clear vitality, and our nation’s public lands stay an untapped useful resource. BLM’s new guidelines are a sensible step ahead and can assist to reverse a long time of preferential remedy for fossil gas pursuits.
“We commend BLM for working alongside the photo voltaic and storage business to ship considerate guidelines that may assist us strengthen the grid and ship dependable clear vitality to extra customers. We are going to proceed to push for pragmatic options that may assist us obtain our formidable clear vitality targets.”
About SEIA®: The Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality economic system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to realize 30% of U.S. electrical energy technology by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member firms and different strategic companions to battle for insurance policies that create jobs in each neighborhood and form truthful market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by analysis, schooling and advocacy.
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