States Advancing Wind

Project Directors
Mark Sinclair, Anne Margolis

The Wind Siting and Acceptance project seeks to address priority regulatory, finance, and technology challenges facing wind siting. The project's major activities include:

1. Pursuant to a DOE Wind Powering America grant to CESA, facilitate peer-to-peer communication and learning among states to identify and promote best practices, and provide technical assistance to state agencies and officials across the nation regarding the merits, approaches, and policy tools available to accelerate wind project development in order to reach the national 20% by 2030 Wind Vision.

2. Work in a partnership with the Department of Interior, the U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative, the Minerals Management Service, and Atlantic coast states to implement a coordinated, efficient regulatory program to facilitate the siting and permitting of offshore wind power.

3. Work in a partnership with DOE and states to advance cost reductions in offshore wind technology.

4. Work with the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder collaborative formed to advance wind development in the Great Lakes region.

5. Serve as a steering committee member of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative.