Environmental & Energy
Jun. 9, 2016
Push for renewable energy no longer driven solely by policy
The new driver is consumer demand for green products and services and this will necessitate changes in the regulatory and legal landscape across many parts of the country.
Jerry R. Bloom
senior counsel
Winston & Strawn
Phone: (213) 615-1756
Fax: (213) 615-1750
Email: jbloom@winston.com
U Miami Law School
There is a new development in the world of renewable energy that will greatly affect its future. For decades, the utilities and municipalities were, for the most part, the exclusive purchasers of renewable energy under wholesale, long-term power purchase agreements based upon federal and state laws. In 1978 Congress passed the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act requiring utilities to purchase capacity and energy from two classes of qualifying facilities - cogenerators and small power...
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