ITI Endorses Bill to Streamline Permitting and Encourage Energy Development
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI endorsed the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. Led by House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman and Congressman Jared Golden, H.R. 4779 will help reform critical infrastructure permitting processes that will accelerate the build-out of energy projects in the United States.
“Modernizing the outdated U.S. permitting process is essential to meeting the growing electricity demand, addressing energy costs, and securing America’s AI leadership,” said ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman. “Chairman Westerman’s and Congressman Golden’s SPEED Act is a pragmatic and necessary solution that will help to deploy energy infrastructure projects faster by ensuring the projects can go through the NEPA process more efficiently. This will enable initiatives to be connected to the grid more quickly and power innovation faster, while maintaining important environmental safeguards. The tech industry is committed to partnering with the energy industry, policymakers, communities, and other stakeholders to tackle ongoing energy challenges and power the U.S. economy.”
ITI represents a broad spectrum of key stakeholders within the energy ecosystem, including data center developers, owners, operators, end-users, technology providers, power purchasers, energy distributors, and more.