Energy Law

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of June 10, 2013

Posted on June 12, 2013
First U.S. Grid-Connected Offshore Wind Turbine Launched in Maine The United States' first grid-connected, offshore, floating wind turbine prototype was launched on May 31 off the coast of Castine, Maine. Led by the University of Maine, this project?supported by a $12 million Energy Department investment over five years?represents the first concrete-composite, floating-platform wind turbine to be deployed in the world...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of May 28, 2013

Posted on May 28, 2013
  Japan's feed-in-tariff system for clean energy mired in regulationsThe nuclear disaster in Japan two years ago ignited a push to develop a new and clean energy industry, but those efforts are being stymied by a raft of regulations. As part of its policy goal to diversify supply, the government introduced a feed-in-tariff system last July to kick-start the market for renewable energy...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of April 15, 2013

Posted on April 22, 2013
Vermont Representative introduces legislation to make it easier to finance renewable energy projects Joined by Vermont renewable energy companies that are putting Vermonters to work and charting a cleaner energy future, Rep. Peter Welch has announced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that will make it easier to finance renewable energy projects in Vermont and throughout the country...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of February 11, 2013

Posted on February 14, 2013
Two Energy Revolutions in The State of the Union It was no surprise that energy and climate change featured prominently in Tuesday's State of the Union speech. The President devoted an entire section of his address to these topics, leading into it in a very upbeat way: "Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race...

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Renewable Energy Law News - Week of January 7, 2013

Posted on January 07, 2013
Wind Energy Tax Credit Extension Passes with Fiscal Cliff Deal On January 1, 2013, Congress passed legislation that included the long-sought extension of wind energy tax credits in a bill to avert the "fiscal cliff" that now moves to President Obama for his expected signature...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of December 31

Posted on December 31, 2012
Virginia utilities, lawmakers to reform renewable energy policyVirginia lawmakers, environmental groups and utilities are working to revamp the state's 2007 Electric Utility Re-Regulation Act, which is designed to bolster renewable energy generation. Stakeholders want to reform loophole in the law allows utilities to receive financial credit for renewable energy investments made outside of Virginia...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of November 12

Posted on November 16, 2012
Fate of wind energy production tax credit in hands of Obama, House GOP, officals sayThe fate of a tax credit that advocates say is needed to maintain tens of thousands of wind energy jobs will be decided during high-stakes, last-minute negotiations between President Obama and House Republicans over fiscal issues, officials said Tuesday...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of October 15

Posted on October 18, 2012
Photo via FlickrObama Administration Approves Roadmap for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development on Public LandsWASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of President Obama?s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today finalized a program for spurring development of solar energy on public lands in six western states...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of September 24

Posted on September 25, 2012
Photo via Flickr19 Companies Urge Congress To Extend Wind Tax Credit A group of 19 leading companies has sent a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to immediately extend a key tax credit for wind that is set to expire at the end of the year. The diverse coalition of firms, which includes Ben & Jerry?s, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Starbucks, and Yahoo!, says that raising taxes on the wind sector would be bad for businesses that buy large amounts of wind electricity...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of July 23

Posted on July 27, 2012
Photo sourceChristie signs bill to boost solar New Jersey Gov. Christie and the state's environmental groups have landed on common ground _ a highly unusual occurrence. That's because [on Monday] Christie signed a bill that would encourage the growth of the solar industry in the state...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of July 16

Posted on July 19, 2012
Photo via Flickr Bill would allow utilities into energy efficiencyElectric utilities in Delaware would be able to count energy efficiency toward their state renewable energy purchase requirements, under a bill under consideration in the General Assembly...

Photo via Flickr Vermont first

Posted on May 09, 2012
Photo via Flickr Vermont first state in nation to ban fracking for oil and gasWith a 103-36 vote in the House of Representatives, Vermont on Friday became the first state to ban hydraulic fracturing to extract oil or natural gas. The bill passed the Senate earlier this week...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of April 23

Posted on April 25, 2012
Photo via Flickr More than 100 renewable energy and associated Vermont businesses urge legislative actionMONTPELIER, Vt ? Demonstrating the size and diversity of Vermont?s renewable energy economy, more than 100 businesses that work in the renewable energy industry are urging legislative action before the session closes on a package of clean energy legislation...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of April 16

Posted on April 19, 2012
Photo via FlickrVermont is Helping to Lead the Nation in Transforming Our Energy SystemWe come from Vermont. We know our small state cannot reverse global warming on our own, but we can provide a model for America which helps lead our nation and the world to a more sustainable and secure energy future...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of April 2

Posted on April 05, 2012
Photo via Flickr Bipartisan US Senate bill would extend wind tax credits by two yearsSeven US Republican and Democratic senators on Thursdayintroduced a bill that would extend for two years the federal production taxcredit for wind energy that is set to expire at the end of 2012...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of March 19

Posted on March 21, 2012
Photo via FlickrVermont House votes to pursue renewable energy MONTPELIER -- With summer temperatures in Vermont on the first day of spring, House members gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill to address climate change. "We see its evidence everywhere and we see it at an ever increasing rate," Rep...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of March 12

Posted on March 16, 2012
Photo via Flickr Senate Fails to Pass Energy Tax Credit ExtensionsThe Senate failed to pass an amendment that would have extended a set of expiring tax credits for wind energy, biofuels, energy efficient homes and other tax breaks.The wind energy production tax credit and the other tax breaks are set to expire at the end of the year...

Renewable Energy Law News Week of March 5

Posted on March 05, 2012
Administration produces renewable portfolio standard proposalTwo months into the legislative process, the Vermont Department of Public Service weighed in this week with a proposal for the renewable portfolio standard bill that has ping-ponged back and forth in the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy...

Photo via FlickrMaine tidal project

Posted on February 28, 2012
Photo via FlickrMaine tidal project wins pilot license Federal regulators have issued a pilot project license to a tidal energy project proposed in Maine's Cobscook Bay. Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order granting Ocean Renewable Power Company Maine, LLC an 8-year pilot project license to construct, operate, and maintain its proposed Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of January 30, 2012

Posted on February 03, 2012
Photo via FlickrAWEA Pushes For Production Tax Credit's Near-Term Extension Anticipating a tough fight to get legislation passed during an election year, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is seeking near-term legislative action as a means to extend the production tax credit (PTC), which, for wind power, expires at the end of the year...

Renewable Energy Law News - Week of January 16, 2012

Posted on January 18, 2012
Photo via Flickr Vermont Statehouse 2012: A legislative preview On Tuesday, 180 lawmakers will converge on the Statehouse after a seven month hiatus for Round 2 of the 2011-2012 biennium. Judging from interviews with committee chairs, the upcoming session will be fast and furious...

Renewable Energy Law News Week of 12/1

Posted on December 05, 2011
Photo via Flickr What Will Become Of The Kyoto Climate Treaty?As diplomats from around the world gather in Durban, South Africa, for talks about climate change, a big question looms: What will become of the Kyoto climate treaty, which was negotiated with much fanfare in 1997...

Renewable Energy Law News from week of 11/17

Posted on November 18, 2011
Photo via FlickrExtending the Renewable Energy PTC Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) have introduced legislation aimed at extending the Production Tax Credit, or PTC. First conceived in 1992 as part of the Energy Policy Act (H.R. 776), the PTC has been renewed year after year and also incorporated into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as part of that Act?s Renewable Energy Production Incentives...

Renewable Energy Law News from week of November 9

Posted on November 09, 2011
Photo via Jasmic Bill to extend U.S. wind energy tax credit goes to committee  U.S. Representatives Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), members of the tax-writing House Committee on Ways and Means, on Nov. 2 introduced the American Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act (H...

Dunkiel Saunders Celebrates Opening of First Wind?s Sheffield Wind Project

Posted on November 02, 2011
In the distance, the Sheffield turbinessalute the project's completion. A unique celebration took place last Wednesday on the top of Granby Mountain and Libby Hill in Sheffield, Vermont as the Sheffield Wind Project, developed by First Wind, was inaugurated with a ceremonial ribbon cutting attended by the Governor, state legislators, utility representatives, Sheffield residents and numerous others...

Renewable Energy Law News for Week of 10/17

Posted on October 18, 2011
Department of Energy Finalizes $4.8bn in Solar Loan Guarantees On the last day of its 1705 loan guarantees program, the US Department of Energy finalized support packages for four major solar projects on Friday, totaling almost $4.8 billion.US Energy Secretary Steven Chu confirmed awards for three huge solar power plants in California, and a ?transformational? project installing solar panels on 750 warehouse rooftops...

Renewable Energy Law News for Week of 10/10

Posted on October 13, 2011
Vermont Aims for 90% Renewable Energy by 2050The Vermont Department of Public Service released a draft Comprehensive Energy Plan, calling for 90% of the state's energy to come from renewables by 2050. It replaces a 2008 plan that called for 25% renewable energy by 2050...

Renewable Energy Law News from week of 9/26/11

Posted on September 29, 2011
Udall Renewable Fuel Parity Bill Introduced in Senate U.S. Sens. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, introduced a bill on Sept. 15 that aims to level the playing field for advanced biofuels by altering certain elements of the renewable fuel standard to make it more ?technology neutral...

DPS releases Vermont Draft Energy Plan

Posted on September 16, 2011
The Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS) released a draft of the new 2011 Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) earlier this week.  By statute, the Comprehensive Energy Plan must be updated every five years, and the plan is intended to provide a policy road map for Vermont?s energy future, touching on electricity, thermal heating sources, transportation and land use issues...

?Beginning Construction? Requirements for Section 1603 Cash Grants for Renewable Energy Projects

Posted on September 13, 2011
The federal Section 1603 Treasury Grant Program has provided a major incentive for the development of renewable energy projects in recent years by allowing owners of such projects to receive a cash grant in lieu of federal tax credits for specified energy property...

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