Renewable Energy Project Finance in the U.S.: An Overview and Midterm Outlook
Copyright © 2011 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Interesting report on renewable energy projects by Mintz Levin law firm. Report covers excellent overview of past and future of projects for wind and solar.
Law firm is well known for deep understanding of the renewable energy in North America.
Writing in Wind Energy Update, a LinkedIn group, Managing Director Tom Evans proposes that ex-military men and women will be in high demand for wind energy construction projects.
British, Dutch and Danish Royal Navy are just some places where the traditional military training programs contain many of the key criteria an offshore employer seeks. Thousands of hours of offshore work experience, check. Educated to a good standard of higher learning maybe even with specific electrical engineering skills sets, check. A built in sense of teamwork and respect for authority and command, check.
He invites us all to London for the 3rd annual Offshore Wind Construction, Installation and Commissioning Conference, October 4-6.
Karl-Erik Stromsta recently wrote in Recharge, the global source for renewable energy news, that German industrial giant Siemens has given wind energy its own division, separate from the company’s other renewable energy business units. This confirms the increasing importance of wind power for the future and opens more career opportunities for engineers and industry leaders.
The United States, China, Germany and Spain are today’s world leaders in wind power development, with the greatest demand coming from the United States and China.
Government policies, coupled with private initiatives and increasingly more prominent roles by venture capitalists, will influence the future of wind energy around the world. Your company will be a part of that future!
Our firm’s activities in this sector are mainly manifesting themselves on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, with executive leadership placements in the United States and Northern Europe.
Your C-suite talent is critically important, and your company and others in the industry additionally need supply chain talent, logistics experts, business development executives, transmission managers, implementation project managers, utility experts and professionals with other capabilities, such as wind turbine design and manufacturing.
To build on the already important and growing position you command in the wind industry, we’d like to have the opportunity to help you complete your leadership team for the future.
Is a revision of our wind energy rules required? Or even to be considered, as some in the U.S. Senate are asking? What are your thoughts on this?
The American Wind Energy Association has published an interesting paper on power transmission and what is needed for a sustainable 21st century grid. We thought you might like to read it. Search for “power grid” on the site.
It was reported this week at the conference of the American Wind Energy Association that the U.S. goal of wind supplying 20% of the country’s energy needs by 2030 is running ahead of projections. Along with this good news comes the fact that more jobs are being created, which leads to greater activity in firms such as ours.
Clients are looking for talent in a very competitive market. The candidates with the skills, experience and connections the industry expects are in demand, not just in the United States, but globally as well.
An article in Clean Technica provides further insights.
The AWEA Data Collection Survey for worker safety and health, created by the AWEA Health and Safety Committee, launched on April 6, 2011. Benchmarking is a critical step toward measuring and ensuring the success of any safety program. The AWEA Safety and Health Committee is implementing this data collection program to collect injury, illness and fatality data that is specific to the wind energy industry. The AWEA Health and Safety Committee prioritized various activities for 2011 and listed the injury, illness and fatality data collection survey as the highest. Through the survey, which will be based on the current OSHA 300 log, basic injury and illness data will be collected to analyze industry trends.
In the span of one week, the announcement for the first-ever wind energy label to help consumers identify how a product is made coincided with the program’s architects being awarded the world’s most prestigious clean energy prize. Both a new initiative and a new trustmark, WindMade™ is the brainchild of Denmark-based Vestas, the largest wind power producer. Just before headlines began circulating, The Daily Beast spoke with its Senior Vice President, Morten Albaek about how the WindMade team of founding partners is set to make its swirling blue mark on the world.
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