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Green energy gridlock

Planet Money

The Problem With Interconnection Queues

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The projects sitting in the country's interconnection queue right now represent more electrical generating capacity than all of the power plants that currently exist. The problem is it's been taking years to run these studies and tell people whether their wind or solar farm is allowed to connect to the grid. Thousands of projects are in limbo, usually have to wait years for an answer.

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