Eric Hurlocker

29 Jun Commonwealth Pledges Reduced Carbon Emissions

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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="173" class="zemanta-img"] Virginia Governor McAuliffe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] On June 28, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an Executive Order intended to significantly reduce carbon emissions from Virginia’s power plants and to combat the effects of climate change in the Commonwealth. Executive Order No.57...

10 Apr MA Legislators Pass Compromise on Net-Metering, Reimbursement Rates

Posted at 21:49h in Blair Powell, Eric Hurlocker, legislation, net metering, regulation, Retail Electric Competition, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility rate lawyer 0 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="205" class="zemanta-img"] The Massachusetts State-house in Boston, Massachusetts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] This week, the Massachusetts legislature reached an end to the solar impasse that existed in the Commonwealth, when the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate struck a deal regarding the net...

21 Mar Dance at Deep Run Raises over $223,000

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Deep Run High School's Marathon Dance, which we talked about here, here, and here, raised over $223,000 for charitable causes last Friday and Saturday. The young people who organize and stage one of the nation's largest and most successful marathon dance fund raisers deserve all the...

18 Mar The Dance Will Soon Begin

Posted at 18:39h in community service, Eric Hurlocker, Recent GreeneHurlocker News, solar energy lawyer, Virginia 0 Comments

Deep Run High School's Marathon Dance, which we talked about here, here, and here, will kick off tonight. We're proud of these young people who organize and stage one of the nation's largest and most successful marathon dance fund raisers, and who have donated over...

09 Mar Secure Futures Project Underway at University of Richmond

Posted at 19:59h in Eric Hurlocker, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar energy lawyer, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

As we mentioned here, our client Secure Futures is installing a solar facility on the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness. That work has just begun in earnest, as announced by the UR Communications office here. As alumni of our local university and law school (Eric...

01 Mar Deep Run High’s Dancing With Us Again

Posted at 18:02h in community service, Eric Hurlocker, Recent GreeneHurlocker News, Virginia 2 Comments

For the past decade, part of the madness of March includes the Deep Run Marathon Dance. GreeneHurlocker is pleased to once again be a supporter of this great event, which will be held March 18 and 19, 2016, at Deep Run High School. The Marathon Dance benefits the...

29 Jan MDV-SEIA Sponsors Clean Energy Lobby Day Again

Posted at 16:43h in Eric Hurlocker, General Assembly, Recent GreeneHurlocker News, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar energy lawyer, utility regulation lawyer, Virginia 0 Comments

On February 9, 2016, the Maryland, DC, Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association (MDV-SEIA) and the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council will host Clean Energy Lobby Day (CELD) 2016. The event brings together the advanced energy businesses of Virginia with key legislators to advocate for clean technology...

22 Jan D.C. Court of Appeals Denies Stay of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Posted at 21:47h in Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Eric Hurlocker, retail energy market, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility regulation lawyer 1 Comment

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday declined to halt the implementation of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (“CPP”). The CPP, which requires states to submit proposals to reduce carbon emissions from power generation facilities, was promulgated by the EPA on...

21 Jan Eric Hurlocker and the Virginia Legal Considerations Panel

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Eric Hurlocker will be on the "Top Ten Legal Considerations - Virginia" panel at the 2016 Clean Energy CLE, February 3, in Raleigh, NC. Presented by the NC Sustainable Energy Association, the meeting will be held at the Doubletree Raleigh-Durham, a Hilton property just off...

21 Dec Congress OKs Renewable Energy Tax Credit Extension

Posted at 14:44h in distributed power generation, Eric Hurlocker, legislation, renewable energy, retail energy market, solar energy lawyer, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility regulation lawyer 0 Comments

In exciting news for the renewable energy industry, last Friday Congress passed (and the President signed) the $1.15 trillion federal spending bill that continued tax credits for renewable energy development. We consider these credits a powerful and useful incentive to continue the country’s momentum toward...