This blog posting is the first of a series of five postings from the 2014 year-end energy briefing by law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. It presents a summary of an energy briefing hosted by the firm, held on December 10, 2014, and featuring energy industry updates along five topics from 12…

This article, from law firm Akin Gump, is authored by Edward W. Zaelke. For the most part, with the exception of a limited number of projects referred to as “community wind,” America’s roughly 70,000 MW of installed utility scale wind and solar projects are owned directly or through subsidiaries of large American or European utility…