How to Design Feed-in Tariffs in the USA without Fear of Federal Preemption
Paul Gipe | Aug 11, 2011 | Comments 0
August 10, 2011
The cavalry has finally arrived in the seemingly endless debate about what states can and can’t do in designing workable feed-in tariffs. The cavalry is in the form of two new papers describing how states can design feed-in tariff policies without running afoul of the US government’s power of preemption.
Written by Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) scholar and expert on feed-in tariffs Jennifer Gleason, the two papers explain the arcane rules derived from the US Constitution and the Federal Power Act. The papers, written for feed-in tariff advocates the Alliance for Renewable Energy, bring the discussion up-to-date with recent favorable decisions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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