To respond to the national priority to develop more energy infrastructure, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory created a suite of technical strategies in the following four areas:

• Advanced Technology (such as AI): Integrating tools like PermitAI into agency workflows, automating data analysis, and improving decision accuracy. Training and workflow redesign ensure staff can leverage these tools in everyday permitting.
• Programmatic Frameworks: Ready-to-use regulatory practices help agencies eliminate repetitive analysis and quickly meet core permitting requirements.
• Knowledge and Risk Hub: A national online reference library, plus new studies and technical memos, delivers fast access to benchmarks, guidance documents, and fresh research.
• Pathway Analysis and Assistance: Identify critical project pathways and provide standby technical assistance to equip partners to resolve urgent permitting challenges and keep projects moving forward.

Potential ATxP Partners

ATxP explores how energy developers, agencies, planners, and community partners can work together to maximize efficiency, transparency, and local benefits in energy infrastructure permitting.

• Government can use these strategies to administer permitting more efficiently through technology solutions, regulatory innovation, and first-in-class technical insights on effects and effective responses.
• Developers can use these strategies to have a clearer picture of permitting authorities and reduce development time, costs, and uncertainty through discovery and reliance on established federal science. 
• Permitting jurisdictions can use these strategies to execute permitting with the efficiency of new technologies, effective sharing between authorities, advanced programmatic approaches to regulation, and access to project effects, best practices, and technical studies.