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One Big Beautiful Bill: New Law Disrupts Clean Energy Investment

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/9/2025

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBB), which significantly rolls back many of the core tax incentives that clean energy projects have relied on since the passage of the...more

Understanding the energy transition in Central Asia and Caucasus

A&O Shearman on 11/28/2023

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia have all set off on a journey of energy transition, but each of these countries is taking a path of its own, as Anton Konnov, Alexey Mareev and Arthur Minosyan explain....more

Microwave Transmission of Space-Based Solar Power: The Focus of New Attention

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 6/16/2023

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

Rethinking Energy Reliability with Modern Power Systems

J.S. Held on 2/2/2023

Utility-scale wind, solar, and battery resources are challenging the way we assess and value system reliability as part of the ongoing Energy Transition process....more

The Inflation Reduction Act Provides Potential Game-Changing Benefits for U.S. Solar Industry

Wiley Rein LLP on 8/15/2022

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act), which climate analysts have hailed as game-changing for the growth of solar power, and solar manufacturing, in the United...more

Committing to a Greener Future: Indonesia Embraces the Use of Carbon Economic Value

A&O Shearman on 1/6/2022

On October 29, 2021, shortly before the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26), Indonesia issued Presidential Regulation No. 98 of 2021 on the Implementation of Carbon Economic Value to Achieve Nationally...more

Energy & Sustainability Washington Updates – September 2020

Mintz - ML Strategies on 8/28/2020

Congress was away from Washington for much of the month of August for the annual recess and is scheduled to return after Labor Day for a limited work period before breaking again to allow members to campaign ahead of the...more

IRS Provides Carbon Capture Tax Credit Guidance and Safe Harbor

McGuireWoods LLP on 2/25/2020

On Feb. 20, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-12 and Revenue Procedure 2020-12 regarding carbon capture tax credits (IRC Section 45Q). Notice 2020-12 (the begin construction notice) provides guidance to determine when...more

Renewable Energy Update - January 2020 #3

Allen Matkins on 1/27/2020

Focus - BLM announces plans to roll back desert protections in bid to boost geothermal energy - Los Angeles Times – January 23 - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this Thursday announced plans to transform 22,000...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - October 2018 #3

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/19/2018

How DC Unleashed Fossil-Fuel Exports Despite Climate Worries - "Since Donald Trump took office in 2017, exports of LNG and crude oil have surged, rivaling the likes of Saudi Arabia and Russia." Why this is important: The...more

Sustainable Development Update - November 2017 #3

Allen Matkins on 12/4/2017

Sustainable Development Focus - Greenprint report shows real estate industry continues to reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water use - Urban Land - Nov 20 A new report from the ULI Greenprint Center for...more

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