Lee: Fear of bureaucratic paperwork causes clean energy developers to hesitate on GGRF
Amanda Lee · Frontier Forum: Is America’s green bank ready? · Aug 13, 2024 · at 21:02
Amanda Lee explains developer reluctance to engage with federal green bank funding due to previous negative experiences with bureaucratic government programs.
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“A lot of the veterans have seen government programs and incentives that, you know, it's almost like it's not worth applying for, right? So we've had developers come to us and be like, oh, you know, I want to see where the dust settles, right? Is it worth my time trying to engage people or is it like, hey, the moment I blink at it, they're gonna ask for, like, 7000 forms to be filled out for even for me to figure out whether we pre-qualify.”
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