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DESCRIPTION:Charles Taylor (Harvard Kennedy School)\, “Land Conservation an
 d the Clean Energy Transition”\, Environmental Economics Seminar\, Toulous
 e: TSE\, March 3\, 2025\, 11:00–12:15\, room Auditorium 4.\n\nThis paper e
 xamines the relationship between land conservation values\, land use prote
 ctions\, and the development of wind and solar electricity generation reso
 urces. We link a US nationwide dataset of renewable project proposals sinc
 e 2000 to geospatial information on wetlands\, critical habitats\, and con
 servation easements. We estimate an empirical model of developers’ site se
 lection and subsequent project progression\, accounting for key economic f
 actors such as revenue potential\, land values\, and infrastructure costs.
  Our findings indicate that land use protections significantly reduce the 
 likelihood of both entering the electricity interconnection queue and secu
 ring interconnection agreements. In particular\, proximity to conservation
  easements--a legal and tax structure that permanently restricts developme
 nt on 40 million acres in the US--substantially lowers the probability of 
 project success. A preliminary simulation-based exercise suggests that whi
 le land protections have constrained development on sites with high conser
 vation value\, they have not significantly affected overall investment cos
 ts. (With Meredith Fowlie)
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LOCATION:Toulouse: TSE\, March 3\, 2025\, 11:00–12:15\, room Auditorium 4
SUMMARY:Environmental Economics Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.tse-fr.eu/seminars/2025-land-conservation-and-clea
 n-energy-transition
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