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Supreme Court To Hear OCS Case With Impacts for the Offshore Renewables Industry
It’s not often that the United States Supreme Court hears a case with consequences for the offshore wind and marine hydrokinetic industry. The last time I mentioned a Supreme Court case was back in...
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Obscure, complex, duplicative and uncertain. While those adjectives don’t make for good law or regulation, they’re the stuff that law review articles are made of. Perhaps that explains why in the...
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Oceans of Wave Energy Innovation
One of the most exciting aspects of practicing law in the marine and hydrokinetic space is that I have a birds-eye view of innovation-in-action. And while I sometimes think that it might be nice to...
View ArticleUK Releases Report on the Future of MHK
Just as they say that the grass isn’t any greener on the other side, so too, it appears, that the waters aren’t any bluer for MHK on the other side of the pond. On February 7, 2012, the Energy &...
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FERC Grants Pilot License to Verdant Power!
I first posted about Verdant Power just a little more than seven years ago, when I reported on the company’s plans to place six tidal turbines in the East River. Eventually, Verdant Power did just...
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Green Tech Infographics
My name is Carolyn Elefant and I am an infographic-aholic. In other words, I’m addicted to charts and pictorials and graphics and other visual means of succinctly and colorfully captures the complex...
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OREC Releases Roadmap for the MHK Industry in Flip-book Format
Interested in figuring out where the marine hydrokinetic industry is heading? Look no further than the Roadmap released last fall by the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (I drafted the sections dealing...
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Corps of Engineers Issues Final Rule on Nationwide Permit for Small...
On February 21, 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a Nationwide Permit 52 for small water-based renewable energy products. I’ve tracked this issue for a while; announcing the Corps’ intent...
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How the Urge To Merge May Drive A Surge in Offshore Renewables
The latest injection of financial support for offshore renewables is coming from an unlikely and overlooked source: electric utility mergers. In February 2012, the offshore wind industry reaped...
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FERC Market Pull Mechanisms for Marine Hydrokinetic and Other Small Renewables
Here’s a webinar on FERC market pull incentives for marine hydrokinetics and other small renewables. It’s 50 minutes in length and you can access it at this link. If you have any questions about the...
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