Wind and solar farm permitting duration

Today it's easily five years, sometimes even a decade to get a permit to build a wind farm or solar farm or making a grid connection.

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Global Wind Energy Council. (2026). EU Commissioner on Fossil Fuels Fallout and How To Ramp Up Renewables. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.gwec.net/news/eu-commissioner-on-fossil-fuels-fallout-and-how-to-ramp-up-renewables. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_74A3MHP4WJFN3MXTMZEB9Y3RXF

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Global Wind Energy Council. "EU Commissioner on Fossil Fuels Fallout and How To Ramp Up Renewables." 2026, https://www.gwec.net/news/eu-commissioner-on-fossil-fuels-fallout-and-how-to-ramp-up-renewables. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_74A3MHP4WJFN3MXTMZEB9Y3RXF.

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Global Wind Energy Council. "EU Commissioner on Fossil Fuels Fallout and How To Ramp Up Renewables." 2026. https://www.gwec.net/news/eu-commissioner-on-fossil-fuels-fallout-and-how-to-ramp-up-renewables. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_74A3MHP4WJFN3MXTMZEB9Y3RXF.

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@misc{gwec2026wind9y3rxf, author = {{Global Wind Energy Council}}, title = {EU Commissioner on Fossil Fuels Fallout and How To Ramp Up Renewables}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_74A3MHP4WJFN3MXTMZEB9Y3RXF}, note = {Original source: https://www.gwec.net/news/eu-commissioner-on-fossil-fuels-fallout-and-how-to-ramp-up-renewables. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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