New report shows even clean energy projects are dying in regulatory nightmares

If completed, the project will deliver an average of 550,000 megawatt-hours of clean electricity annually.

“The reason we did it is because as people talk about jobs, you really can’t develop jobs until you find some way to put facilities through the permit process,” Kovacs told TheDC.

But the fact that even renewable energy projects – something the Obama administration champions at every opportunity – is experiencing more difficulties with bureaucratic red tape than the fossil fuel industry is, said Kovacs, “the biggest shocker on the whole project.”

The report is now being circulated on Capitol Hill.