https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/17\/california-promised-wind-and-solar-developers-a-270-day-permitting-process-theyre-still-waiting-00510674<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A wind power farm in the mountains of far-Northern California was the first through the door of a new permit streamlining program that came with a lofty promise to renewable energy developers: Once a permit application was complete, the California Energy Commission would make a final ruling on the project within 270 days.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been more than 650 days since Fountain Wind completed its application. But the agency still hasn\u2019t made a final ruling, after fierce local opposition successfully derailed the permit review.”<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/17\/california-promised-wind-and-solar-developers-a-270-day-permitting-process-theyre-still-waiting-00510674<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,237,913,1112,694,236,551,1058,1059],"class_list":["post-19151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-clean-energy","tag-electricity","tag-low-carbon-energy","tag-power","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}