Election Roundup: How a Harris Administration Could Shape the Oil and Gas Landscape
Extending the Flexibility of Energy Storage With Julia Souder, LDESC — Battery + Storage Podcast
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 25: Issues for Public Employers with Bertha Enriquez of Renewable Water Resources
Economics of the Energy Transition: Keith Fullenweider on Wharton Business Daily
Small Refinery Exemption Litigation Update
Renewable Fuel Standard Outlook
De-Risking Renewable Energy Projects: Identifying and Avoiding Contractual, Economic, Legal, and Regulatory Pitfalls
Powering Anything, Anywhere With Alex Livingston, Joule Case — Battery + Storage Podcast
Flexible Real Estate Financing Solutions for Storage Projects With Laura Pagliarulo, SolaREIT — Battery + Storage Podcast
Overcoming Energy Conversion Challenges With Jason Barmann, EPC Power Corp — Battery + Storage Podcast
4 Key Takeaways | Harnessing the Inflation Reduction Act: Driving Investments in Renewable Energy and Carbon Reduction
The Continuing Impact of Coal Ash - Energy Law Insights
The Capacity Crunch, Part Three: Unpacking the Power of the IRA: The Potential Game-Changing Opportunities for Utilities
The Capacity Crunch, Part Two: Public Utilities, Resource Planning & Deployment, and the IRA
Nuevos vientos para la energía eólica en Colombia, la apuesta Offshore
The Capacity Crunch, Part One: Reliability and Decarbonization in the Short Term
6 Key Takeaways | Legislative Developments in Decommissioning Requirements in North Carolina
Brad Gibbs Discusses the Intersection of Renewables and Oil and Gas in Emerging Surface Use Issues
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 15 - Climate Week NYC
Renewable Natural Gas and the Promise of a Cleaner Future
In 2023, the world added an impressive 45 gigawatts/97 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, nearly tripling year-on-year growth, with the majority driven by battery storage installations. The global energy storage...more
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted a strategic plan that will guide the state’s development of offshore wind energy. The plan outlines analysis and strategies to deploy floating turbines off California’s...more
Solar is booming in the United States as power demand surges, outpacing the growth of any other electricity source and disproving claims that the energy transition is a failure. To be sure, solar remains a small portion of...more
In This Issue: Battery and Energy Storage Systems - 2023 was a banner year for energy storage in the United States. Statistics reported by Wood Mackenzie show that in 2023 alone, energy storage deployment across all...more
If all goes as planned, solar, wind and other clean energy technologies will help us abandon carbon emissions for good. But many green power sources perform their best only when nature cooperates, so an important (and...more
Achieving climate goals will require significant capital investment into the development and scaling of improved battery technologies. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), enacted in August 2022, allocated billions of dollars...more
Because the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow, ensuring that renewable sources can reliably meet society’s energy demands has long been a challenge for clean energy advocates. Battery energy storage...more
The California Independent System Operator’s board on May 23 approved a $6.1 billion, 10-year transmission plan that includes projects to deliver offshore wind to customers. Transmission projects to access clean energy...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued a new safe harbor that will make it easier for U.S. solar, onshore wind and battery storage projects with U.S.-sourced components to qualify for...more
Battery energy storage systems (BESS), which enable utility companies and grid operators to access pools of surplus renewable energy on demand that would otherwise be wasted, play a central role in the global energy...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved a long-awaited rule to make it easier to transmit renewable energy such as wind and solar power to the electric grid — a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to...more
Governor Gavin Newsom said on April 25 that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat...more
We are pleased to introduce the inaugural issue of the Real Estate Round Up, a monthly update on current trends, with the first month focusing on Environment and Energy insights. This month’s edition features key topics such...more
In this episode of the Battery + Storage Podcast, host Bill Derasmo speaks with Alex Livingston, president of Joule Case. Alex shares his journey from studying mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho to co-founding...more
NERC recently filed rule changes with FERC that propose to significantly expand NERC registration and compliance requirements to inverter based resources, such as renewable energy and battery facilities, that historically...more
The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) oversees the siting of large-scale energy facilities like wind and solar power projects, which often include an associated Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). BESS is a...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $20 billion in federal “green bank” grants to eight community development banks and nonprofit organizations to use on projects combating climate change in disadvantaged...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) will host its January Open Meeting on Thursday, January 18, 2024. The Sunshine Act Meeting Notice (“Notice”) issued January 11, 2024, indicates that FERC intends to take...more
U.S. battery storage capacity is poised for a record year in 2024 with Texas and California continuing to lead the country in new additions, after installations reached a new record last quarter....more
Grants and tax credits, who doesn’t love them? The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is full of them, and, recent Department of Energy (DOE) Notification of a Proposed Interpretive Rule provides guidance on who will get to...more
On December 14, 2023, the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released proposed regulations to implement the Section 45X advanced manufacturing production credit established by the...more
As covered in our prior alerts, the Inflation Reduction Act enacted new renewable energy credits, including an advanced manufacturing production credit under Section 45X that provides tax credits to domestic producers and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS on Dec. 14, 2023, released Proposed Regulations regarding the Section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit of the Internal Revenue Code. (See Holland& Knight's previous...more
EU Court Ruled on FDI Screening Limits - Implications for Investors - The Court of Justice of the European Union’s first decision on foreign direct investment (FDI) screening limits the scope of the EU FDI Screening...more
Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings......more