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Abstract
The federal government and many states have recognized and are addressing the disconnect between extensive federal- and state-level incentives to promote distributed wind and solar power and outmoded local permitting and zoning procedures that impede installation of generation equipment. Federal renewable energy production incentives, loans, grants, and tax credits, and state renewable portfolio standards, tax rebates, and feed-in tariffs are all designed to encourage development of renewable energy facilities. Yet it is municipal and county governments that typically oversee the siting and installation of small- to mid-scale wind and solar projects.