Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more
8/26/2024
/ Agricultural Sector ,
Aviation Industry ,
Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Carbon Emissions ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
FERC ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Infrastructure ,
Natural Gas ,
NEPA ,
Oil & Gas ,
Power Plants ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tax Credits ,
Transmission Grid
Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more
5/2/2024
/ Agricultural Sector ,
Airlines ,
Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Carbon Emissions ,
CFTC ,
Class Action ,
Climate Change ,
Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Forestry ,
Greenwashing ,
Investment ,
Investment Funds ,
ISDA ,
Natural Resources ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sustainability ,
Sustainable Business Practices ,
Timber ,
USDA
Members of the K&L Gates Hydrogen, Power, Tax, and Tax Policy teams speak with Sandi Safro Osborn, Assistant General Counsel of the Edison Electric Institute, about the proposed regulations the Treasury Department and...more
1/18/2024
/ Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Tax Incentives ,
Hydrogen Power ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
IRS ,
Production Tax Credit ,
Renewable Energy ,
Renewable Energy Incentives ,
Tax Credits
On 22 December 2023, the US Treasury Department (Treasury) released the highly anticipated Proposed Regulations relating to the Clean Hydrogen Production Credit (hydrogen credit) under the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as...more
The results of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM’s) recent auction of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) lease areas sharply depart from recent auctions and may signal uncertainty about current prospects for offshore wind...more
On 17 April 2023, in California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley, the Ninth Circuit struck down a local ordinance banning natural gas piping in newly constructed buildings, concluding that federal law preempts the...more
In 2023, federal agencies are poised to deliver rapid advancements in the development of offshore wind projects in the United States. In particular, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—the...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
With electric vehicles (EVs) on the rise, recent federal legislative and policy initiatives have prompted states to develop related infrastructure plans. These plans will provide for the greater connectivity required to...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries, and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries, and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries and how these developments can...more
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in the renewable energy and clean transport industries, and how these developments can...more
The U.S. offshore wind market has surged in growth over the last few years, bolstered by the U.S government’s commitment in 2021 to increase offshore wind lease capacity as well as the Biden Administration’s declaration that...more
4/26/2022
/ Asset Management ,
Biden Administration ,
BOEM ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Offshore Wind ,
Project Finance ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Renewable Energy ,
Wind Farm ,
Wind Power
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold its next offshore wind lease auction on 11 May 2022, for two lease areas in the Carolina Long Bay. The lease areas comprise 110,091 acres off the coast of North and South...more
Offshore wind is in high demand, as evidenced by the US$4.37 billion in winning bids generated in the recent federal government auction of lease blocks in the New York Bight. On a per-acre basis, the provisional winners were...more
The flurry of offshore wind activity off the U.S. Eastern Seaboard continues, as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced recently it will hold an auction on 23 February 2022, to lease six new areas for...more
The K&L Gates Power practice is pleased to present the latest edition of the Energy Storage Handbook.
This handbook is an annually updated primer on what energy storage is, how it is regulated by U.S. federal and state...more
1/27/2022
/ Batteries ,
Clean Energy ,
CPUC ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Storage ,
FERC ,
Hydrogen Power ,
ISO/RTO ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tax Credits
There is a lot of buzz around clean technology, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, and other technological innovations in renewable energy and clean transport industries, and how these developments can...more