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How One Utility Cut Rooftop Solar Inspection Cycle From 83 Days to 14
Episode 76 of The Operator's Manual digs into a single operational change at a mid-sized municipal utility in the Pacific Northwest that slashed its residential solar interconnection approval time from 83 days to 14. Lucas and Luna walk through the bottleneck: a manual permit-review step that required a master electrician to hand-stamp every application. The fix was a tiered approval system that automated 80 percent of reviews and escalated only edge cases. They also discuss why this matters beyond solar — any regulated industry with a similar approval queue can borrow the playbook…
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