Plumer, B. (February 23, 2023). The U.S. Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck 

Plugging Them In. The New York Times. Retrieved July 29, 2023 from, 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/climate/renewable-energy-us-electrical-grid.html

 

Many states in the US have been waiting on permission to continue their addition of solar panel projects but have been left waiting and unaccepted. For example Kentucky and Virginia were delayed for years of their 3,000 acre solar panels. Plus, Minnesota’s/North Dakota’s wind farms were abruptly canceled. More than 8,100 energy projects, mostly wind, solar and batteries — were waiting for approval to connect to electric grids at the end of 2021 only. It now takes about four years for developers to get approval, double the time it took a decade ago.  

 

On the other side of wind and solar energy in the US, this article talks about the obstacles met while trying to create the energy projects rather than the benefits and achievements. In certain areas, projects are being left behind and discarded because of a disapproval, leaving them half-done. This makes me wonder just how much time is being wasted on constant waits on permission. The impact this has on environmental science is the things left behind on these projects that end up ruining the environment because of it not being able to decompose and because of its wasted potential on what it could’ve been.