Energy Law

• Life after Vermont Yankee: Anxiety or relief? | The Burlington Free Press

  Reporter Terri Hallenbeck at the Burlington Free Press takes a look at a post-Vermont Yankee Vermont.

• Vermont Law School gets $450k for smart grid study (via AP)

Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and Environment receives $450k for research on smart grid technology

• Road Island PUC Rejects Power Purchase Agreement for Off-Shore Wind Project | RenewablesBiz

  The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission unanimously rejected the PPA negotiated by Deepwater Wind and National Grid for an eight-turbine project off Block Island. The PPA anticipates the turbines would be spinning in 2013, with Deepwater to be paid 24.4 cents per kilowatt-hour, with a yearly 3.5 percent increase thereafter.

  The Block Island Times also has more on the reaction to this recent decision.

• Green Energy Reporter: Obama?s New Drill

  Green Energy Reporter has a round-up of news and commentary on President Obama's recent off-shore drilling announcement and other energy news.

• Governor McDonnell Signs Offshore Wind Energy Bills Into Law

  Virgina Governor McDonnell today signed into law several bills that promote the development of an offshore wind industry in Virginia.

• It looks like time to build an Atlantic seaboard wind grid | ars technica

  A study that will appear in PNAS later this week suggests a radical solution: connect offshore wind up the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US into a single, huge, baseline generating system.