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Department of Energy invests 95 million to study the social dynamics of large scale solar sitting and permitting

Solar developers say community opposition is among the top causes of project cancellations and that it has ramped up in the last five years.

Gilbert Michaud, assistant professor of practice at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. Gilbert Michaud, assistant professor of practice at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, has been selected as a co-principal investigator on a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office. The project, “Mapping and Bridging Barriers in Knowledge Flows of How Solar Photovoltaics A...