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This Year’s Top Utilities Know When to Move and How Fast
4 Sep 2023
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Utilities are making the power generation, transmission and innovation investments for the transition to clean energy, driven as much by customer demand as by government mandate. In many cases it’s a matter of waiting for slow and cumbersome government permitting to catch up.
In the economic development world, however, no one’s waiting around for permission. In fact, expedited permitting is a calling card, because speed to market is a must.
Each year Site Selection salutes the Top Utilities in Economic Development based on corporate end-user project investment and affiliated job creation in these utilities’ territories the previous calendar year, evaluated on a cumulative and per-capita basis. They are the cream of the crop when it comes to getting things done on behalf of their communities and those communities’ employers.
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