Top 10 List for Solar as Connecticut Considers Solar Strategy
As the legislative season heats up again in Connecticut, with a session scheduled to commence in early February, some energy industry lawyers, policymakers and leading Legislators themselves have been...
View ArticleCape Wind Approval Signals (Regulatory) Tide is Turning for U.S. Offshore...
Several European countries already have offshore wind farms, including Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Earlier this year, China completed the installation of its...
View ArticleNJ Governor Signs Offshore Wind Measure Into Law
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act Thursday, thereby endorsing an initiative designed to spur economic growth through the development of renewable...
View ArticleTilting at Windmills: Cape Wind PPA Pending Review at MA DPU
Its been 10 years since Cape Wind Associates, LLC originally proposed developing 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound and, after navigating successfully through a labyrinth of federal, state and local...
View ArticleA Welcome Holiday Present: One Year Extension of the Solar Energy Tax Grant...
The renewable energy industry got a nice holiday present this year. On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4853, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job...
View ArticleThe Sun No Longer Shines on Solar Panel Maker Solyndra LLC - Bankruptcy and...
Well, it was only a matter of time before renewable energy hit the mainstream. By which we mean that the bloom comes off the road as the rubber hits the rose. Yesterday the FBI raided the headquarters...
View ArticleSolyndra Takes the Fifth and Mascoma Prepares for an IPO: A Down-and-Up Day...
It was a sobering moment Friday. Two executives of Solyndra LLC, after being honored by the President, receiving vast sums of money from investors, and earning kudos and accolades from industry and...
View ArticleBad Karma for Fisker Automotive: Of Loans and Lawsuits
As if it wasn’t hard enough trying to displace the internal combustion engine as the motive force of the automobile, then this happens. First the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt’s battery starts catching...
View ArticleRio+20 Disappoints But Does Renewable Energy Need an International Treaty to...
Rio+20 wrapped up yesterday. The moniker derives from the twentieth anniversary of the Earth Summit, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which was held in Rio de Janeiro....
View ArticleSunrise, Sunset - The Parable of the Two Solar Companies
"A Rare Solar Success Story" trumpets the American version of The Wall Street Journal today in an article about LDK Solar, a Chinese solar wafer manufacturer. We agree with "Solar" and "Story" but the...
View ArticleAct II at the Obama EPA: Gina McCarthy (is predicted) To Take the Helm
The President gave an indication of his environmental focus in his inaugural address, and then again in his state of the union speech. The focus would be on climate change. Central to that focus would...
View ArticleThe Top 6 at 12: Highlights of the Top Climate Change Legal Stories in the...
2013 has drawn to a close; here is our take on the top six climate change legal stories in the last six months. 1. Climate Change Assessments - Blockbuster legislation may have been evaded once more...
View ArticleExecutory Forward SREC Contracts - What Exactly Does This Mean?
What happens to the payment for a solar renewable energy credit (SREC) when the payor closes its doors? Maryland citizens are finding out the hard way. The promises made to some of them are turning...
View ArticleCommunity Solar - A New Path in Illinois
This week, the Chicago Tribune reports that the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) filed a petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to require...
View ArticleFlorida’s Solar Conundrum
Despite ranking third in the nation for rooftop solar potential, the "Sunshine State" is 13th in cumulative solar capacity installed (dreary New Jersey is 3rd). This is the result of a state without a...
View ArticleTexas Changes the Goal(s)
Some say you can't go back, but last week, I did go back -- to Austin, Texas, where I went to law school. Things changed -- the east side has been gentrified, the traffic is horrendous, and Molly Ivins...
View ArticleWhat is President Trump’s Energy Policy?
We all know where the respective party “establishments” in Washington come down on climate change, clean power, and the pace at which the country should move to renewables as the primary source of...
View ArticleWhat is President H.R. Clinton’s Energy Policy?
Even as the number of 2016 presidential candidates in both parties has dwindled, the media -- particularly television news -- has yet to focus on an in-depth discussion of the candidates’ policy...
View ArticleSome Real Numbers About Transitioning a Coal Plant to a Solar Farm
Power density will be on display this morning in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Virtually anyway. There is a groundbreaking for a 5.8 MW solar farm beginning at 10:30. This is wonderful news. The old,...
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