Nuevos vientos para la energía eólica en Colombia, la apuesta Offshore
On-Demand Webinar | Charting a Course for Offshore Wind Energy in California
Recent Developments in the Offshore Wind Energy Industry with Special Guest Jennifer Simon Lento of Vineyard Wind
Recent policy shifts at the federal level have introduced significant variability to the US renewable energy sector. While demand for clean energy continues to grow, executive orders, regulatory changes, and evolving...more
In April, we marked the Trump administration’s first 100 days and, with it, a continued sweeping recalibration of federal energy and environmental policy with aggressive efforts to curtail government spending, restructure key...more
What role will solar, wind and storage technologies play in addressing the pending “energy emergency” in the United States, and how is the industry responding to heightened policy uncertainty stemming from the new federal...more
Clean energy installations in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with the country adding 47% more capacity than in 2023, according to new research from energy data firm Cleanview. Boosted by tax credits under the...more
On President Trump’s first and second days in office, the new administration released a flurry of executive actions, in the form of both memorandums and executive orders, focused on the energy industry:...more
President Trump began his second term by issuing a barrage of executive orders, memoranda, and other directives, many of which targeted U.S. energy policy and the federal employees who implement it. Trump had campaigned on...more
Good morning! 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
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
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS have released final rules on Inflation Reduction Act provisions that aim to expand the reach of the clean energy tax credits. The Act created the new elective pay and...more
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be conducting a regional environmental review of potential development activities on the five offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts....more
On November 17, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued Proposed Treasury Regulations (REG-132569-17) (the “Proposed Regulations”) providing guidance and amending...more
It has been just over a year since the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA” or “The Act”) was passed. This monumental piece of legislation for the clean energy industry provides hundreds of billions of dollars to build a clean...more
What generates clean power, is located in an Energy Community and is entirely surrounded by water? If you answered “an offshore wind farm along the coast of the United States,” you would likely curry much favor with the...more
The excitement surrounding the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) was perhaps felt nowhere as strongly as among proponents of the US offshore wind industry. From project developers to original equipment...more
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
On August 16, President Biden signed the Senate budget reconciliation package known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”), which was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on August 12....more