Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice

Troy A. Rule, Arizona State University College of Law

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This third edition of Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice features substantial revisions and updates from the casebook’s second edition reflecting five years of rapid changes in the renewable energy industry and its governance structures. Few areas of law and policy are evolving more quickly than renewable energy law. Mounting climate change concerns, the emergence of artificial intelligence, unprecedented federal-level pushback against wind and solar energy under the Trump administration, and the increasing affordability of energy storage are reshaping today’s energy sector and introducing countless new legal and policy questions. This new edition incorporates numerous revisions aimed at ensuring that students who study from it are fully up to date in their understanding of modern renewable energy law. Updates include:

• New coverage of recent federal government efforts to revive the U.S. coal industry and promote greater exports of liquified natural gas;
• Discussion of how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and a nationwide surge in demand for electricity to power data centers are affecting energy law and policy;
• Coverage of recent federal government efforts to disinvest in climate change-related information gathering and disclosure;
• Detailed coverage of renewable energy law-related provisions in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including changes to federal renewable energy law tax credit programs and expanded “foreign entity of concern” restrictions on tax credit eligibility;
• Excerpts from a 2025 Executive Order entitled “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources” that describe some of the second Trump Administration’s rationales for abruptly ending various forms of federal support for wind and solar energy development;
• New statutory excerpts from Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard legislation;
• A description of the 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, and how its holding could impact federal environmental review for renewable energy projects under the National Environmental Protection Act;
• A new discussion of community benefit agreements and their potential to help mitigate local opposition to renewable energy projects;
• Coverage of the growing local opposition to renewable energy and of new state laws that preempt or otherwise limit municipal-level obstructions to renewable energy development;
• A discussion of California’s “Net Metering 3.0” policy and its impacts on solar net metering and distributed energy storage investment in that state;
• An introductory description of agrivoltaics projects and how they can promote synergistic use of rural land;
• A new explanation of solar decommissioning requirements and of their role in solar energy project permitting and development;
• Significant new coverage of laws, policies, and industry vocabulary relating to energy storage systems, including such concepts as rate capacity, ramping capability, round-trip efficiency, and energy storage mandate laws;
• New excerpts from a law journal article focused on energy storage laws and how they can impact private investment in energy storage facilities and systems;
• New excerpts from Colorado’s energy storage rights statute;
• New excerpts from a 2024 law journal article focused on legal and policy issues surrounding community microgrids;
• Greatly expanded coverage of geothermal energy law topics, including excerpts from Professor Gabriel Eckstein’s 2025 law journal article on state laws governing property interests in geothermal energy resources; and
• New legal academic journal article excerpts examining the diverse array of laws and policies governing green hydrogen development.

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