Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure

On September 20, 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) filed a Notice of Public Review of the proposed 225 CMR 21.00, the Clean Peak Energy Portfolio Standard regulation. DOER seeks public comment on the proposed regulation. Originally part of An Act to Advance Clean Energy, which was signed into law in 2018, the Clean Peak Energy Portfolio Standard, or Clean Peak Standard (CPS), is designed to reduce demand at peak times and to shift energy use at these times to clean energy source.

November opens on Capitol Hill with the Senate in session the first week while the House is in a district work period. Both chambers are in session the weeks of November 11 and November 18, before breaking for the week of Thanksgiving. There are only 16 remaining legislative days in the year where both the House and Senate will be in session at the same time.

Mintz is excited to sponsor Horizon18, a new global event for the clean energy economy taking place October 10-11 in Boston.

Don’t miss this month’s exciting events, including SeaAhead’s Global Bluetech Summit in New York and Greentech Media’s Power & Renewables Summit 2019 in Austin, Texas.

This issue covers news about AeroShield and Teratonix, the use of blockchain in the energy industry, Mintz client TitanAES, recent M&A activity, energy policy developments in DC, and upcoming energy events.

Congratulations to our client AeroShield and its co-founders, Elise Strobach and Kyle Wilke, on being selected as a regional winner at the Cleantech Open Northeast Accelerator Program 2019 Regional Finals, which took place in New York City on Thursday, September 26. AeroShield is a Cambridge-based startup that manufactures a super-insulating, porous glass for energy efficient windows.

Read the latest round of M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space.

This month, we are pleased to feature Titan Advanced Energy Solutions (Titan AES), a company that has produced cutting-edge technology to increase battery charge capacity and significantly extend overall battery life. Founded by two entrepreneurs, Shawn Murphy and Sean O’Day, the company recently closed a Series A financing deal to advance its products and sales.

Read the latest energy policy updates coming out of the Capitol, including updates on National Energy Awareness Month, recent energy bills approved by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and several other new energy bills introduced in Congress during the past month.

At the recent Blockchain in Energy conference hosted by Greentech Media (GTM), the theme was entirely clear: the perception of blockchain in the energy industry has matured from proclaiming blockchain a disruptive panacea that would completely vault a heavily regulated industry into the transactive grid of the future to placing blockchain as a tool in the firmament of the technology stack for the currently transitioning grid

Read the latest round of M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space.

Read the latest energy policy updates coming out of the Capitol, including updates on temporary tax provisions for energy, upcoming legislative hearings for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the Proposed Strategic Energy for America (SEA) Act.

This issue includes a feature on Internet of Things strategies for the energy sector, energy-related M&A activity, energy updates from Washington, and upcoming events.

Don’t miss this month’s exciting events, including “Horizon19” in Boston and “CleanTechIQ’s Powering Up Indoor Agriculture Forum” in New York. Learn more here.

Whether thinking about managing oil and gas, water or other infrastructure facilities, or considering industrial efficiency, robotics and automation, you may be pondering how the Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to leverage resources. Forward thinking strategies include not just staying on top of regulatory changes that affect the IoT ecosystem, but also influencing them.

Read the latest round of M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space.

Energy & Sustainability Client Feature: Mintz’s Ben Stone Speaks with Solstice Co-founders Steph Speirs and Sandhya Murali.

Congress started its annual summer recess on August 5, with the House and Senate both scheduled to return to Washington on September 9 for a three-week work period before returning to their states and districts for the first two weeks of October.