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How Can We Build Transmission Infrastructure Responsibly?

Legal Planet

The ways in which the IIJA and IRA address the need for new transmission capacity will be the subject of the second panel in our symposium, Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy. As a result, transmission development is a crucial consideration for large-scale renewables planning.

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Wind Energy Development in the Gulf of Mexico

The Energy Law Blog

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. 585.107(a). 585.107(a). REN-N03 (May 27, 2020).

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FERC Proposes Reforms to Speed-Up Approval of Interstate Transmission Infrastructure

Law Columbia

will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation. (For 689 was struck down in 2009 in Piedmont Environmental Council v. To get there, the U.S.

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