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Just Keep Spinning? – The Future of American Wind Power

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Earth Day organizers consider wind power essential for reaching the Our Power, Our Planet goals. However, the future of American wind power is uncertain. Wind power accounts for around 10% of all power generated in the United...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Empire Wind 1 Stop-Work Order Targets Offshore Wind but Raises Questions for Other Industries

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On Wednesday, April 16, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to order Equinor to “stop work” on its 812 megawatt Empire Wind 1 project just outside of New York Harbor....more

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Presidential Memorandum on Wind Energy Designed to Decrease Permitting Efficiency and Increase Uncertainty for Onshore and...

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On January 20th, President Donald Trump launched his first attack on the wind industry by issuing a Presidential Memorandum, which temporarily bars future offshore wind leasing in federal waters and pauses issuance of any...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 1.17.25

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President Joe Biden has designated two more national monuments in California, spanning 848,000 acres - the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument. The Chuckwalla National Monument creates...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 8, Issue 11, November 2024

Welcome to our 11th Issue of Currents 2024, our energy e-newsletter. This will be our last issue of 2024, and we want to sincerely thank you for reading Currents for the past eight years. Our goal is to relay top trending...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 6.03.24

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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

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 4.29.24

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The Biden administration on April 25 finalized a rule meant to speed up federal permits for major transmission lines, part of a broader push to expand America’s electric grids. Administration officials are increasingly...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Climate Policy

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - April 2024 #2

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

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Still Running Against the Wind … or With It

Ten miles by water from our home on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts, you would think that the future of offshore wind is now. New Bedford is the local home of Vineyard Wind, where massive components are loaded onto huge...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: V 7, Issue 11, November 2023

Pennsylvania and RGGI – Decision and Resolution - On November 1, 2023, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, in a five-judge panel decision, issued a long-awaited ruling denying the authority of the executive branch,...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 10.19.23

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The Biden administration is putting almost $3.5 billion into improving the strength and resiliency of the U.S. electric grid, government officials said on Wednesday. The money is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Major Offshore Wind Policy Actions to Address Supply Chain and Transmission Constraints

The Biden-Harris Administration announced several major policy actions for offshore wind in the last week, including a new effort to strengthen regional collaboration and address high priority domestic supply chain gaps and a...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Biden Administration Finalizes Three Wind Energy Areas off Mid-Atlantic Coast

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On July 31, 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced three final wind energy areas (WEAs) off the shores of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The final WEAs have the potential to support 4-8 gigawatts of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Biden-Harris Administration Publishes Priorities for Permitting Reform to Build Clean Energy “Faster, Safer, and Cleaner”

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris administration outlined in a fact sheet its priorities for permitting reform to accelerate the build-out of America’s energy infrastructure “faster, safer, and cleaner.” The fact sheet provides an...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Department of Energy Announces Strategy for Offshore Wind Deployment

The Opportunity and the Vision The wind atop U.S. waters presents an estimated potential resource of 4.2 terawatts, which is more than three times the total electricity-generating capacity operating in the United States in...more

Morgan Lewis

US Offshore Wind Roundup as of March 2023

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Despite global economic headwinds, the US offshore wind industry has continued to slowly but steadily blossom, driven largely by enhanced vision and cooperation among federal government agencies under the Biden...more

Perkins Coie

Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen: What Opportunities Lie Ahead

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The Biden Administration bolstered its ambitious clean energy goals this week by announcing the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Clean Hydrogen report, along with $750 million in funding for research, development, and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Is Paving the Way for Offshore Wind

The California coast is home to some of the best offshore wind resources in the country. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimates that California's coast has a resource potential of 201,000 megawatts (MW) of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California’s First Offshore Wind Auction Finalized – Key Takeaways

The dust has settled on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first west coast auction for federal offshore wind lease areas. The California auction for the Morro Bay and Humboldt Call Areas brought an aggregate...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

First of its kind for five West Coast offshore wind lease areas

The auction: First of its kind for five West Coast offshore lease areas - The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), completed its first west coast offshore wind lease auction on Wednesday.1 The auction covered...more

Bracewell LLP

PRG Pulse 2022 Post-Election Analysis

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The Big Picture - Congressional Overview - American voters delivered a decidedly mixed message to Washington on Tuesday, seemingly handing Republicans narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives and a nominal check...more

Perkins Coie

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Offshore Wind Leasing

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The $437 billion Inflation Reduction Act, H.R. 5376 (IRA), signed into law on August 16, 2022, by President Biden, makes historic investments in clean energy. The IRA allocates $369 billion toward energy security, carbon...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Energy & Sustainability Legal Feature — The Recently Announced Federal-State Partnership to Accelerate the Development of Offshore...

On June 23, the White House announced the launch of a Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership to accelerate the development of US offshore wind projects. This partnership is a joint effort of the Biden...more

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Favorable Winds for Offshore Development – Inflation Reduction Act and Other Updates

The offshore wind industry stands to gain additional momentum this summer as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) moves through Congress to its anticipated passage. The budget reconciliation package associated with the bill...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Inflation Reduction Act Advances Stalled Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales

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The Inflation Reduction Act (the Act), which passed the U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, 2022, requires that previously announced offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska be held during the next two years....more

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