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Future Energy Startup-Investor Pitch in collaboration with the MIT Clean Energy Prize: April 4th (applications due March 6)

March 5, 2013 | Blog | By Sahir Surmeli

Ultra Light Startups recognizes that game-changing ideas in alternative and renewable energy require capital to develop. Ultra Light also knows that investors are looking for companies and ideas with breakthrough potential.
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Mintz Ranked in Top Ten by LMG Clean Technology and Renewable Energy

February 19, 2013 | Blog | By Thomas Burton, Sahir Surmeli

Mintz’s Energy & Clean Technology Practice was recently recognized by LMG Clean Technology and Renewable Energy, a Euromoney Institutional Investor publication, as one of the top ten firms in the clean technology industry.
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Hemant Taneja's “Energy is not a zero-sum game anymore”: The End of the ‘Clean vs. Dirty’ Debate and the Rise of Advanced Energy Technologies

February 12, 2013 | Blog | By Sahir Surmeli

The rapid progress of advanced energy technologies and energy efficiency in the “conventional” areas of oil and gas as well as in the “clean” sources of wind, solar, and geothermal energy is allowing countries to do more from less energy.
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GreatPoint Energy Tops the List of Largest VC Deals in 2012

January 23, 2013 | Blog | By Thomas Burton

Greentech Media released their list of green technology’s largest venture capital deals for 2012, and GreatPoint Energy, a coal-to-natural-gas firm, is in first place.
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Climate Change: Emerging Law of Adaptation

January 9, 2013 | Blog

In the wake of Storm Sandy, adaptation to climate change is emerging as a public policy priority.
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New Municipal-Owned Solar Farm in Massachusetts, but More Obstacles Ahead

December 17, 2012 | Blog

Orlando Pacheco, the town administrator for Lancaster, Massachusetts, has something to boast about.
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Defense Agencies Seek Electrical Power from Biomass

December 13, 2012 | Blog

On December 12, 2012, the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy (DLA-E), in close coordination with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for electrical power from a biomass generation facility for up to 28 megawatts located on or contiguous to Fort Drum in Watertown, New York. 
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Cleaning Water with Oil: Inexpensive and Energy-Efficient

December 11, 2012 | Blog | By Thomas Burton

While completing his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008, Anurag Bajpayee discovered a simple chemical trick with vast potential—he found that a certain class of oils can remove contaminants from water.
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ML Strategies Publishes Weekly Energy and Environmental Update on December 2, 2012

December 3, 2012 | Blog

ML Strategies has posted its weekly Energy and Environmental Update.  This publication provides timely  information on the fiscal cliff negotiations in the lame duck session, and other state and federal administrative and legislative activities related to energy and the environment.
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The Federal Trade Commission's Revised Green Guides

November 30, 2012 | Blog | By Sahir Surmeli

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its revised Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, also known as the “Green Guides.”
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Second Circuit Applies the Filed Rate Doctrine to Electricity Rates Set by Market-Based Auctions

October 29, 2012 | Blog | By Thomas Burton

The filed rate doctrine precludes antitrust challenges to rates set or approved by federal agencies. The doctrine is broadly applied and covers, for example, wholesale electricity rates that are filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission), even in circumstances where the claimant alleges that the rates were initially set in a fraudulent or improper manner.
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At CFIUS's Recommendation, the President Blocks Chinese Company from Acquiring U.S. Wind Farms

October 1, 2012 | Blog | By Thomas Burton

President Obama issued an executive order prohibiting a Chinese-owned company from acquiring and owning four wind farms in the U.S. on September 28, 2012, which marks the first time in over two decades that a U.S. president has blocked a foreign transaction.
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Massachusetts’s New Energy Bill: Insider Insights

September 26, 2012 | Blog

While political gridlock at the federal level threatens crucial incentives for renewable power and some states seem to be slowing or at least re-evaluating their policies, a few states are still pressing forward aggressively.
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EU Chamber of Commerce in China Report on Innovation

August 28, 2012 | Blog | By Thomas Burton

The European Chamber of Commerce in China released a report on August 22 titled “Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China,” finding that, despite the rise of China to the number one country in numbers of domestic patent application filings, the number of quality, higher-end patent applications has declined.
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