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21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development

January 20, 2010


Overview

Not enough attention has been paid to renewable energy infrastructure development critical to ensure successful project development for wind, biomass, solar, biofuels, geothermal, distributed generation, and waste management projects. With almost $13 trillion slated to be spent in the upcoming decade on energy supply and infrastructure, the Conference sought to elucidate the type of integrated Federal, State, and Wall Street support for infrastructure, we need to see:

  • Renewable energy and efficiency supplies growing in the mix
  • An estimated market clearing price for carbon
  • Increased renewable infrastructure investment
  • Access to capital

The American University Washington College of Law (“WCL”) and the Renewable & Distributed Generation Resources Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources co-sponsored this conference to evaluate the issues surrounding renewable infrastructure development. The national Conference was held at WCL on September 10, 2009. Podcasts of the panel discussions and lunch keynote speech by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) Chairman JonWellinghoff are available through the WCL podcast directory. 

For the full conference proceedings, please click here

For More Information

Please contact Michael J. Zimmer or any member of our Climate Change & Sustainable Business Solutions or Energy practice groups for more information.

Disclosure

First published in Fall 2009 of Sustainable Development Law & Policy. Reprinted with permission. This publication is intended to inform clients about legal matters of current interest. It is not intended as legal advice. Readers should not act upon the information contained in it without professional counsel. This document may be considered attorney advertising in some jurisdictions. Some of the design images and photographs in this document may be of actors depicting fictional scenes.

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