#permitting

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced a public-sector AI pilot focused on permit review for clean energy projects. The program starts in Washington state and aims to reduce timelines from multiple years to under one year.

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduced DraftNEPABench to evaluate AI coding agents on NEPA drafting tasks. In expert assessments, agents showed potential to reduce drafting time by 1 to 5 hours per subsection, or up to roughly 15%.