O'Neill: Framing clean energy siting around property rights wins bipartisan support
Heather O'Neill · Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth · Oct 6, 2025 · at 14:16
Heather O'Neill, CEO of Advanced Energy United, shares a strategic heuristic on how to frame renewable energy permitting and siting reform to win conservative support.
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“First and foremost, you know, are you Protecting landowner property rights, right? So making sure that state and local governmental processes are not kind of impeding local property rights. And so that, again, a very conservative principle, and so I think you're able to attract allies from across the political spectrum as you think about some of these crucial principles and reforms.”
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