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Clean Tech

Mar. 17, 2011

John M. Spilman

Cleantech Law Partners San Francisco



The first time John M. Spilman worked on a wind power project, he loved the energy - in more ways than one.


It was 1990, two years before the United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and Spilman was negotiating contracts for two companies building a series of wind energy projects that resulted in a wind farm with the potential of generating 160 megawatts in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area in Kern County.


Spilman remembers feeling drawn...

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