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    This Year’s Top Utilities Know When to Move and How Fast

    September 4, 2023

    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.

    Read the full article here.

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