Workshop: Renewable Energy Law

Catalog description

Focuses on the legal policy, technical framework, and sustainability for electrical energy project development in Wisconsin. Covers the legal policy topics of corporate structuring, financing, taxation, clean energy sections of the 2021 Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts, permitting and strategies to support and oppose such projects. Provides a general overview of technical considerations for emerging renewable technologies in Wisconsin such as biomass, waste to energy, geothermal, solar and wind projects. Introduces sustainable development aspects of renewable energy projects to identify impacts to the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial). Cross-listed with the College of Engineering to create a diverse classroom and foster a collaborative approach to developing renewable energy projects, consistent with legal and technical partnerships that occur in practice.