Jones Day Talks: Developments in Germany's Wind Power Regulations
On March 5th, three Judges of the First Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from lawyers for residents of Nantucket who sued to stop the Vineyard Wind project, the first utility-scale offshore wind energy project in in the...more
The nation’s first large-scale offshore wind farm started spinning its blades on January 2nd. The wind project, known as Vineyard Wind 1, began operations near Martha’s Vineyard 15 miles off the coast of Massachusetts,...more
A Federal Judge in Oklahoma has ordered the ejectment of 84 wind turbines on 8400 acres of Osage County Oklahoma. The problem for the developers of the wind farm is that they leased the surface of those 8400 acres from the...more
A Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court”) addressed in an august 16th Opinion a dispute between a windfarm owner and neighboring coal cleaning operation. See Gestamp Wind North America, Inc., et al. v. Alliance Coal, LLC, et...more
The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Eighth Circuit”) addressed in an August 24th Opinion a dispute involving electric power purchase agreements (“PPAs”). See Laredo Ridge Wind, LLC, et al. v. Nebraska Public...more
In an interesting decision last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to BLM’s decision to issue a right-of-way permit for Tule Wind’s plan for a wind farm southeast of San Diego. It’s not exactly...more
Alleged land use conflicts between newly proposed land uses and existing nearby airports are nothing new, and can produce heated CEQA battles as project opponents often raise “life safety” issues as potential project impacts....more
A recent decision by the D.C. Circuit has prompted much speculation about possible changes to the traditionally opaque and secretive national security review process administered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...more
On July 15, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the President violated the due process rights of Ralls Corporation, a U.S. company owned by two Chinese nationals when, pursuant...more
On July 15, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia remanded Ralls Corporation’s (Ralls) precedent-setting case against the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the...more