February 2010

In late January, FERC issued an order in response to a filing by Western Grid Development LLC that asked FERC to declare that Western Grid’s proposed battery storage devices are transmission facilities eligible for certain rate incentives.  Western Grid described its battery technology as 10 to 50 MW sodium sulfur batteries that would be installed at…

Earlier today, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) posted its climate change interpretive release, which can be found at http://www.sec.gov/rules/interp/2010/33-9106.pdf.  Our prior Blog on the subject is here, and our alert on the topic can be found here.  Stoel Rives corporate securities partners Ron McFall and CJ Voss will be posting a follow up alert …

The first wind farm developed by juwi in the U.S. will soon generate clean and safe electricity. Construction works at the Flat Water Wind Farm in Richardson County, Neb., have already started. By the beginning of 2011, 40 turbines will be up and running, thereby producing roughly 220 million kilowatt hours of carbon-dioxide-free power per year. The project will be constructed by Gallop Power LLC, a U.S.- based company established to develop, own, and operate clean energy projects. Gallop has acquired Flat Water Wind Farm from juwi’s J.W. Prairie Wind Power LLC. Stoel Rives LLP represented juwi in the transaction.

"We were very pleased to have assisted juwi in accomplishing the transaction that will result in the construction and operation of their first wind farm in the United States. juwi, as an international player in the wind and solar energy with operating generation facilities in Europe and elsewhere, is the kind of company that we need active in the U.S. markets to help move our renewable energy sector forward," said Ed Einowski, Stoel Rives LLP partner who represented juwi in the transaction.Continue Reading Stoel Rives LLP assists with first juwi-developed U.S. wind farm

President Obama met today with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country and announced a series of steps the administration is taking to boost biofuels production in the United States.  The President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group released a report spelling out ways to promote the development of the biofuels industry in the United States…