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Length of permitting for clean power Introduction
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We are at a time when the global energy transition is in full swing.
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Christine Le Bihan-Graf
Partner, Energy transition department at
Hogan Lovells LLP Paris
Government efforts focused on reducing the time
required for procedures and appeals in many countries,
particularly in the member states of European Union, have
been introduced.
2. Therefore, administrative approval procedures lag
technological advances in renewable energy projects.
3. The technological resources evolution could be used in
procedures to compensate for administrative slowness.
Laure Rosenblieh
Partner, Energy transition department at
Hogan Lovells LLP Paris
Maxime Gardellin
Senior Associate, Energy transition
department at Hogan Lovells LLP Paris
4. Geopolitical events and uncertainties will impact the pace
at which we can decarbonize the energy system, as more
money is diverted to ensuring sovereignty and security of
supply.
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With the climate crisis becoming a matter of urgency, countries
must now rise to the challenge of achieving carbon neutrality by
2050. Carbon neutrality is a global balance between greenhouse
gas emissions and their removal from the atmosphere. This
objective was set by the 2015 Paris Agreements, to which the
countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, such as
the EU, the United States and Brazil, are the main parties.
For countries, reducing gas emissions means gradually replacing
their consumption of fossil fuels (gas, coal, oil) with low-carbon
energies (nuclear), before making a complete transition to
renewable energies (wind, solar). These countries are therefore
facing major challenges to overhaul their production systems
and switch to renewable energy, which requires speeding up
the development of renewable energy projects.
The European Union and Australia have shown themselves to
be innovative by introducing tools to simplify and accelerate
their project authorization procedures. However, with 2030
fast approaching, it is becoming necessary for governments
to turn to means other than administrative reform. Increased
investment in networks and the use of fast-growing technologies
such as AI would appear to be necessary to achieve the targets
set for 2030.
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Permitting is still not fast enough and
is slowing down the energy transition
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