Offshore Renewable Energy Law
Per the blawg, it covers "news and regulation of wave, tidal and offshore wind energy since 2003."
Author: Carolyn Elefant is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who also authors My Shingle and contributes to Legal Blog Watch.
Blawg Related Categories: Energy Law • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Offshore Renewable Energy Law
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FREE Teleseminar: Update on Marine Renewables - You Ask, I (Try) To Answer
With the list of subscribers to this blog growing rapidly - I add one or two nearly every day - I thought that it was time to reach out to readers and thank you with…
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What's Up With the Finavera License: My Play by Play Predictions
I've handled more than two dozen appeals, several with great success, before the venerable D.C. Circuit, so I know my way around the court. But like most appellate lawyers, I'm loathe to try to predict…
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Is Regional Development the Way to Go For Offshore Wind?
Lots of folks want offshore wind in theory, but in practice, few are willing to accept the added costs. That's what happened in Delaware, where the Delaware Commission first approved an offshore wind project, only…
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Trend Spotting in Marine Renewables: Patents on the Rise & Opps for Ancillary Uses
Checking my aggregator, I came across two interesting marine renewables trends this week. First, Renewable Energy World reports that tidal/wave energy granted patents reached a high last seen in 2004. Perhaps recent marine renewables IPOs…
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Increasing Electricity Costs - What Do They Mean for Marine Renewables?
At this past Thursday's meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meeting, staff delivered this presentation warning of the onset of a period of significantly higher electricity costs that will ast for years. The Commission…
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What's Held Wave Energy Back?
Here in the United States, we blame the slow emergence of wave and tidal technology on lack of federal goverment support, unavailability of tax benefits like the production tax credit and accelerated depreciation extended to…
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Global Wave Energy Round Up
U.S. and Portugal Wave the Flag of Cooperation U.S energy secretary Samuel Bodman and Portugese Economy Minister Manuel Pinho signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in search of solutions to global energy security…
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Fishing for Offshore Wind
As the Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital Blog says, file this story under the heading "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." That's precisely the approach that a group of enterprising commercial fisherman have taken…
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Preliminary Permit Filing Watch
Ever since FERC announced its strict scrutiny policy for preliminary permit applications, it seemed as if much of the site grabbing activity that provoked the policy to begin with had died down. But Pacman companies…
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Will Pelamis Go Public?
Going public is nothing new in the wave energy industry; for example, here, New Jersey based Ocean Power Technologies took the plunge a little over a year ago. Now, according to this piece in Reuters,…