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Environment
Poppy Johnston

Tardy approvals leaving clean energy dollars in limbo

The planning system is a bottleneck for renewable projects, with some taking years for approval. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Solar farm and big battery approval times have blown out in Australia's largest electricity market and wind projects are still taking nearly 1400 days to be green-lit despite improvement.

The planning system remains a bottleneck for major renewables projects in NSW, which needs more grid-scale generation and storage so it can retire its ageing and emissions-intensive coal-fired power stations.

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