Harnessing Technology in Litigation: Insights from Troutman Pepper eMerge - Energy Law Insights
Growing the Solar and Storage Landscape With Mike Hall, Anza Renewables - Battery + Storage Podcast
Navigating Complexities in Tax Equity Transactions - Energy Law Insights
Capacity Crunch Series Continued: Balancing Reliability, Unprecedented Load Growth & Affordability in the Energy Transition (Part 2) - Energy Law Insights
Capacity Crunch Series Continued: Balancing Reliability, Unprecedented Load Growth & Affordability in the Energy Transition (Part 1) - Energy Law Insights
Podcast - Gestión del gobierno en el sector de energía: Una mirada desde los entes de control
Navigating Clean Hydrogen Tax Credits: Insights and Implications - Energy Law Insights
Expanding Energy Storage Through Cross-Cultural Insights With Dr. Marco Terruzzin, Energy Vault — Battery + Storage Podcast
Storing Gravitational and Hybrid Energy, With Dr. Raj Talluri, Enovix — Battery + Storage Podcast
Extending the Flexibility of Energy Storage With Julia Souder, LDESC — Battery + Storage Podcast
Power, Privacy, and Protection: Unpacking Security Challenges in the Energy Sector - Energy Law Insights
Duke Develops Flexible Energy Storage Options to Enhance Reliability and Maximize Value With Laurel Meeks, Duke Energy — Battery + Storage Podcast
Podcast - Carbon Markets Lightning Round: State and Federal Updates
Unpacking FERC's Transmission Planning and Permitting Final Rules
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
Building Out Energy Storage Facilities Across the US With Jason Burwen, GridStor — Battery + Storage Podcast
Decoding Battery Analytics With Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, CEO of ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Battery + Storage Podcast
GROWING DEMAND FOR DATA CENTERS - As many involved in Asian infrastructure today will testify, Asia’s digital transformation is fueling an unprecedented demand for data centers....more
Welcome to our sixth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! Amazon and Pennsylvania Join the...more
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) outlined forthcoming activities to identify and address the potential impacts to reliability as a result of the rapid expansion of data centers and other large...more
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is coming and it is coming fast. It is poised to transform industries, automate complex tasks, analyze data faster, and supposedly make smarter decisions for businesses. Rural AmericaIn...more
The emergence of DeepSeek has complicated the outlook for the amount of investment necessary in data centers and electricity generation for AI advancements. Against that backdrop, on March 5, the House Committee on Energy and...more
By one count, worldwide there were some 11,800 data centers in early 2024. Within that census are facilities so small that they fit in office building closets, while others are among the largest manmade structures on the...more
Welcome to our first Issue of Currents 2025, our energy e-newsletter. While our energy practice is constantly changing and evolving, we too have expanded our focus for 2025 with some new editors involved with this...more
On November 21, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed into law a sweeping climate bill (St. 2024 c. 239, An Act Promoting a Clean Energy Grid, Advancing Equity and Protecting Ratepayers) packed with measures aimed...more
The much-anticipated new Electricity Law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was passed on November 30, 2024. The new law aims to enhance the development, management, and operation of the power sector in Vietnam by creating...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published final regulations on December 4, 2024, defining “energy property” and rules applicable to energy credits (the investment tax credit, or the...more
For investors, excitement in the renewable energy landscape is palpable. Renewable energy capacity is being added to the world's energy systems at the fastest rate in two decades, prompting the International Energy Agency to...more
Just as many national, local and company-specific clean energy and sustainability goals are aiming for carbon reduction or carbon neutrality by certain future dates, such as the U.S. federal government’s target of at least 50...more
In September 2024, government officials and private industry leaders announced that Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania power plant that was the site of the nation’s most severe commercial nuclear accident, will be reopened...more
Traditional and social media are thick with reports and predictions of the remarkable increase in size, power consumption and significance of data centers. Not only technology companies but real estate and energy developers,...more
Artificial intelligence, data centers, carbon removal and zero-emission power may sound like a winning line (plus the Free Space) on a 2024 Buzzword Bingo card. But the concepts have come into dramatic real-world tension as...more
Per public data, after years of relatively flat load growth around the country, sharp increases in load growth and load growth projections have occurred, primarily from large-scale computing data center facilities and, to a...more
Advanced Air Mobility represents an exciting new frontier and sustainable path forward for the aviation industry. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is an umbrella term used to describe next-generation air transportation of...more
Scientists have long proposed that solar electricity generation in space could be an integral component of the world’s carbon-free future. In the 1970s, a U.S. Navy experiment showed that it might be possible to capture solar...more
North Carolina Power Outage Points to Homeland Security Long-Documented Threats to US Power Grid - “Moore County blackouts serve as reminder that nation’s electricity infrastructure could be vulnerable targets for domestic...more
Cancelled Teck Oil Sands Project Underscores Global Climate-Energy Policy Tension - "The Frontier project became the latest casualty in oil-producing countries with robust environmental movements agitating to cut...more
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are suing to block the $26 billion plan to merge T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. The trial is slated to begin today with state officials arguing the deal would create “a more...more
..Fortune released its 2019 Change the World list of 52 companies using their business to help the planet. ..Apollo Global Management jumps into impact investing with a $1 billion debut social impact fund. ..In his latest...more
On March 26, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) to “establish[] the first ever comprehensive whole-of-government policy to build resilience and protect against electromagnetic pulses” (EMPs), which can cause...more
Technology and the critical infrastructure that support our personal pursuits and business operations are ripe targets for cyberattacks. In particular, the electrical grid that transmits electricity from its point of...more
Blockchain technology and smart contracts have the potential to become major disrupters in the energy industry. For example, these technologies may accelerate the automation of some or all aspects of the electricity delivery...more