Schiff Hardin’s Environmental Group took a look prospects for renewable energy in 2020 and determined that development is expected to continue through 2020 and beyond.

Authors of the post in the Energy & Environmental Law Adviser blog are Alex Garel-Frantzen, Amy Antoniolli and Brett Cooper.

They discuss three key issues facing the industry for the coming year: waning federal government incentives; siting renewable energy projects at such locations as retired power plants and landfills can lower costs; and local communities can be slow to get on board with renewable energy initiatives.

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The Northeast Clean Energy Council and NECEC Institute will present a webinar exploring how established corporations and early-stage companies can partner to develop new technologies in a mature market.

The one-hour event will be Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2017, at 1 p.m. EST.

Panelists will cover topics such as collaboration strategies that enable entrepreneurs and corporates to iterate, how to launch new products that may change the status quo, and how to explore new markets, NECEC says on its website.

Speakers will share the latest research on corporate partnerships as well as a presentation of a case study on a strategic partnership between Schneider Electric and KGS Buildings.

Attendees will learn:

• The formats a strategic partnership can take
• The importance of aligning strategies, customer value, sponsorship and patience
• How a partnership can help leverage resources
• Different needs require different partners

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Murtha Cullina LLP has posted online an on-demand video recorded from a Jan. 27, 2017, webinar on energy performance contracting.

“Energy Performance Contracting is an innovative financing technique that uses cost savings from reduced energy consumption to repay the cost of installing energy conservation measures,” the firm says on its website. “This technique allows building users (municipalities) to achieve energy savings without up-front capital expenses. The costs of the energy improvements are carried by the performance contractor and paid back out of the energy savings. The other major advantage is the guaranteed energy savings for budgetary reasons.”

Watch the on-demand video.

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Akin Gump recently hosted the webinar “30 Days Postelection, Reading the Tea Leaves on the U.S. Renewables Market,” looking at the future of renewable energy under the incoming Trump administration. Audio of that webinar now is available om the firm’s website.

Panelists included members of the firm’s global projects and finance and public law and policy practices:

• Former U.S. Senator John Sununu (R-NH), adjunct senior policy advisor, public law and policy
• John Marciano, partner, renewable energy tax
• Jeff McMillen, partner, public law and policy
• Ed Pagano, partner, public law and policy
• Brian Pomper, partner, public law and policy
• Ed Zaelke, partner, renewable energy & chair, global project finance practice

“The speakers addressed several topics of interest to U.S. and European private equity funds invested in renewable energy as well as renewable energy investors, developers, tax equity investors and lenders,” the firm says on its website. “The panel discussed how issues such as tax credits, trade policy and environmental concerns might be addressed during a Trump administration.”

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