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Category Archives: Symposium
Are Renewable Portfolio Standards a Policy Cure-All?: A Case Study of Illinois’ Experience
David Loomis & Adrienne Ohler, Associate Professors of Economics, Illinois State University Illinois is an interesting case study for renewable portfolio standards for many reasons. First, the state has a 25% by 2025 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) with 75% carve-out … Continue reading
Discussion of House Bill 1994 and Virginia Initiatives
Delegate David Bulova, Virginia House of Delegates Delegate David Bulova, a College of William & Mary alumnus, represents the 37th District, which lies in the heart of Fairfax, in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was first elected to the … Continue reading
Promoting Locally-Owned Renewable Electricity Generation and Effective Energy Efficiency Investments for Households: the Case for Feed-In Tariffs and Property Assessed Clean Energy Bond
Tyson Slocum, Director of Energy Program, Public Citizen Tyson Slocum discussed Public Citizen’s efforts towards promoting the public’s interest in renewable energy. He focused on feed-in tariffs. A feed-in tariff is a mechanism for building a subsidy into the production … Continue reading
China’s Renewable Energy Law: The “Green” to China’s “Black”
Joel Eisen, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law Professor Eisen started his presentation with a question, what is the point of discussing China’s efforts in renewable energy? If China began to use as much energy as we … Continue reading
Reconciling Renewables: Impediments to a Broad-based Renewable Portfolio Standard
Joshua Fershee, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota School of Law When looking at energy policy goals, we must first think about what our ultimate goals are. In the short term, everything sounds great: energy independence (freedom from foreign oil), … Continue reading
Dominion: New Directions in Energy
Mark Webb, Dominion Resources Services, Inc. Mark Webb, Director of Policy and Business Evaluation Alterative Energy Solutions of Dominion Resources Services, Inc., spoke this afternoon on Dominion’s “New Direction in Energy”. Dominion is a leading provider of electricity, natural gas … Continue reading
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Renewable Portfolio Standards, Renewable Energy Certificates, and the Rest
Ivan Gold, of Perkins Coie Ivan Gold, Senior Counsel, posed these questions to the audience in Williamsburg, Virginia, are federal RPS standards necessary to support renewable energy goals? Will state standards be able to be met with the current system … Continue reading
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Local Land Use Law and Smart Growth
This afternoon’s panel featured Prof. John Nolon from Pace Law School and Prof. Patricia Salkin, an Associate Dean at Albany Law School. Nolon presented on the topic of ”Local Land Use Law, Urban Form, and Climate Change Mitigation” while Salkin focused on the topic … Continue reading
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Impact and Mitigation Fees to Finance Sustainable Development Initiatives
Carl Circo from the University of Arkansas Law School joined us this morning to discuss the question: “Should Owners and Developers of Low-Performance Buildings Pay Impact or Mitigation Fees to Finance Sustainable Development Initiatives?” He began with a confession, “My … Continue reading
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Federalism and Conflict in Regulation of Green Buildings
Shari Shapiro from Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP joined us this morning to discuss “Who Should Regulate?– Federalism and Conflict in Regulation of Green Buildings”. After leading the audience in a yoga stretch, Shapiro paid homage to the spirit … Continue reading
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