America's data-driven economy depends on abundant, reliable energy — but a broken permitting system is choking pipelines, transmission lines, and next-generation nuclear before they're ever built. INCOMPAS is leading the coalition to fix it.
Our Focus Areas
From the steel beneath our feet to the reactors of tomorrow — INCOMPAS is fighting to permit the infrastructure that powers innovation, AI, and economic growth.
The backbone of reliable, dispatchable power. Pipeline permitting delays cost billions and stall the gas-fired generation that backstops our grid.
America needs to double high-voltage transmission to meet demand from data centers, electrification, and AI. Today's permitting system makes that impossible.
Small Modular Reactors offer distinct advantages in construction and safety compared to reactor designs operating today, and are perfectly matched to data center loads. NRC licensing must move at the speed of innovation.
The Issue
Every major energy project, from a 5-mile gas lateral to an advanced nuclear small modular reactor, runs through the same broken pipeline of federal, state, and local reviews. We have the engineers. We have the capital. We have the technology. What we don't have is a permitting system built for 2026 and beyond.
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Decades from now when historians discuss the AI race, they will talk about AI models and the new companies that entered the marketplace. But more importantly, they will write about whether America built the infrastructure fast enough to matter.
Read the full blog→A new transmission line will take between 12 and 17 years from pulling permits to electrification. Back in 2013 we built 4,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines. In 2024, we only built 350 miles. We need to shave years off this process.
Advocacy in Action
FERC certificate dashboard for natural gas projects in active review.
→Department of Energy coordination with states, tribes, and federal permitting agencies to help facilitate the siting and permitting process.
→Advanced reactor designs in NRC pre-application and licensing.
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