Download or read book Texas Wind Law written by Ernest E. Smith and published by LexisNexis. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest comprehensive review of wind law. Wind law is a burgeoning area of energy law as the U.S., and especially Texas, tries to diversify sources of alternative energy. With so much happening so quickly, this timely volume of laws, regulations and rulings is valuable to all attorneys involved in energy law. Whether you represent an energy company, municipality, state or federal agency, or a party wishing to lease out a property for a wind farm, you'll want to turn here first. Texas is big. But this publication covers more. From litigation over the location of wind farms to drafting the right documents, to federal, state and local government incentives (including tax credits), here are the topics you need to know, including: • Major elements of the wind energy lease • Conveyance • Severance of wind rights • Litigation, permitting and legislative efforts • Transmission issues • Energy purchase agreements • Offshore leasing • Compliance with ERCOT protocols, Texas Public Utility Commission regulations and all other relevant laws and regulations The newest kind of farm in America deserves your attention! Now's the time to get up to speed, whether you represent developers, property owners or others. Regardless of the jurisdiction within which a wind issue arises, you can depend on this publication for the facts, figures and forms, plus up-to-date analysis of issues by experts on every aspect of wind law.
Download or read book Water to Wind written by Robert Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Legislature should sever the wind estate. The severance of wind estates is a current and common practice within Texas; however, neither the Texas Judiciary nor Texas Legislature has spoken regarding the validity of severed wind estates. The Texas Supreme Court aligned the ownership of groundwater to the ownership of minerals in 2012 and again in 2016. The Court's decisions regarding groundwater supported a uniform approach to determining the property interests of financially valuable and fugitive natural resources. This method of determining ownership of groundwater differs from the approaches other states have utilized to determine ownership of financially valuable and fugitive natural resources. The Court also supported the historic approach Texas has taken to promote private property rights and the right to contract concerning one's property when upholding the validity of severed groundwater estates. The ownership theories the Court applied to groundwater indicates how the Texas Legislature, or Texas Judiciary, should act regarding the ownership of wind.This Article analyzes property rights in the wind above the surface estate and aligns the wind estate with groundwater and mineral estates, supporting the position wind estates should be severable property estates. Texas leads the nation in the production and development of wind energy, and due to this robust industry in Texas there are millions of dollars at stake in wind development and lease payments to landowners. Though Texas leads the nation in production and development of wind energy, neither the Texas Supreme Court nor Texas Legislature has provided any clarity to the property interests at stake in wind. The two cases that have addressed the severance of wind estates have analogized the wind estate to the mineral estate or groundwater estate.The validity of wind estates needs to be addressed in Texas due to the financial gains, or losses, affecting the Texas landowner if legislation is passed validating, or invalidating, the severance of wind. If legislation is passed validating the wind estate, or legislation is passed similar to legislation passed by other states proactively invalidating wind severance while honoring the previously severed wind estate, wind estates will exist. The determination of the priority of the wind estate compared to the mineral, groundwater, and surface estates will have to be determined. The application and understanding of common law doctrines such as the dominant estate doctrine, first in time; first in right doctrine, and the accommodation doctrine provide clarity to the priority of the respective estates.The Texas Supreme Court holdings in Coyote Lake Ranch v. City of Lubbock, as well as Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day, applied the jurisprudence previously applied to mineral estates to groundwater estates. This Article analogizes the principles recently applied to groundwater estates and how they can, and should, be applied to the wind estate. This Article also explores the relationship between the mineral, groundwater, and wind estate as mutually dominant estates and the respective relationships with the surface estate. Currently, there is no academic article providing an analysis of how Coyote Lake Ranch and Day provide a foundation to determine the ownership of the wind above one's property. Thus far, only a few scholarly articles address the severance of wind estates in Texas. The analyzation and determination of priority of wind, mineral, and groundwater estates as mutually dominant estates have not been the focus of any scholarly article thus far. My Article fills this substantial gap in the scholarly literature and provides readers with legal and practical reasons the wind estate should be considered a severable property interest that is equal in dignity to the mineral and groundwater estates.
Download or read book Don t Blow it written by Alec Robert Puente and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the state’s generally conservative political orientation, Texas has fostered staggering growth in wind energy by taking a thoughtful, market-friendly approach to regulation and providing important incentives and policy supports to ensure the industry’s competitive viability. As the industry has matured, however, new issues have emerged that pose risks to wind energy’s future growth in Texas. Concerns over reliability, competitive pressures from other renewables like solar, falling wholesale electricity prices, and other factors have the potential to derail the Texas wind success story should lawmakers and regulators respond unfavorably. I argue that the wind industry and advocates of renewable electricity more generally should be willing to take leadership engaging with these issues to ensure the industry’s continued involvement in policymaking and secure opportunities to push for ambitious, fair, and technology-neutral solutions. Specifically, I propose (1) ERCOT grid reliability and (2) wind turbine siting and decommissioning as two policy areas that the wind industry would be wise to take the initiative in addressing, and with potential to lead towards constructive policy for Texas’s wind energy future
Download or read book Texas Wind Energy written by Drew Thornley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Existing Energy Law and Regulatory Practice in Texas written by John Gangstad and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industry Practice and Regulation of Wind Turbines written by Texas. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Business and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Legislation Make Wind an Attractive Investment in Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brochure, part of the SEP Stellar Projects series, covers development of wind energy in Texas due to favorable legislation and public policy and favorable market forces.
Download or read book What Texas Estate Planners Need to Know About Transferring a Wind Interest written by Gerry W. Beyer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind development is at the forefront of our nation's green energy trend. The importance of wind energy raises prospective legal issues, in particular to estate planners, regarding how those rights should be treated in their clients' wills. Estate planners must be especially careful in determining their clients' goals and assist them in achieving those goals. A testator who merely partitions his or her land into parcels of equal sizes in an attempt to make an equitable division to the beneficiaries might not achieve an equal distribution of wealth to each beneficiary because it is very likely that the shares will not have equal value. he shares of property with turbines, or the most turbines, will be more valuable than those without, or those with less. Additionally, the parcels with turbines would have less, if not little, surface area to enjoy quietly. This article addresses some of the issues related to testamentary transfers of wind rights to increase the likelihood that your client's will accurately reflects his or her testamentary intent.
Download or read book Legal Systems and Wind Energy written by Helle Tegner Anker and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the legal frameworks in Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States relevant to the development of wind energy.
Download or read book Wind Energy in Texas written by Wind Coalition (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 2005* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capturing the Wind written by Blaire D. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceived Socioeconomic Impacts of Wind Energy in West Texas written by Nicole D. Persons and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind power is a fast growing alternative energy source. Since 2000, wind energy capacity has increased 24 percent per year with Texas leading the U.S. in installed wind turbine capacity. Most socioeconomic research in wind energy has focused on understanding local opposition, especially aesthetic impacts on the surrounding landscape. Recent studies have addressed reasons for social acceptance of wind farms, suggesting that positions both favorable and unfavorable to wind power are subtle and intricate, rather than monolithic, and rooted in place-specific issues. In the case of Texas, scholars have reported that the minimal permitting process is the dominant variable that explains the rapid rise of wind power in the state?s western region. However, scholars have yet to study the place-based local or regional factors that structure and inform acceptance of wind energy by key actors who negotiate with wind-energy firms. This thesis presents empirically determined, statistically significant social perspectives regarding socioeconomic wind energy impacts. I determined social perspectives by using Q-Method in Nolan County, Texas, a major site of wind-power development. Q-Method allows researchers to generalize about social perspectives, but not about how widely or deeply populations ascribe to social perspectives. Q-Method combines qualitative and quantitative techniques beginning with semi-structured interviews to collect statements on wind power, followed by participant ranking of statements on a?most disagree? to?most agree? scale. Key actors surveyed included landowners with wind turbines, elected and civilservice government officials, and prominent local business and community leaders. My findings identified five significant clusters of opinion, two of which shared strong support for wind energy on the basis of perceived positive economic impacts. Three clusters of opinion were less favorable to wind energy; these arguments were based upon opposition to tax abatements, support of tax abatements, and concerns over negative impacts to the community. Consensus emerged over the idea that positive views toward wind-energy development were unrelated to broader commitments to renewable energy. The support of key actors in favor of wind energy is contingent upon direct financial benefits from wind-energy royalties, political views on taxes, notions of landscape aesthetics, and sense of community.
Download or read book The Great Texas Wind Rush written by Kate Galbraith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas’s latest boom, with the Lone Star State now leading the nation. How did this dramatic transformation happen in a place that fights federal environmental policies at every turn? In The Great Texas Wind Rush, environmental reporters Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the compelling story of a group of unlikely dreamers and innovators, politicos and profiteers. The tale spans a generation and more, and it begins with the early wind pioneers, precocious idealists who saw opportunity after the 1970s oil crisis. Operating in an economy accustomed to exploiting natural resources and always looking for the next big thing, their ideas eventually led to surprising partnerships between entrepreneurs and environmentalists, as everyone from Enron executives to T. Boone Pickens, as well as Ann Richards, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, ended up backing the new technology. In this down-to-earth account, the authors explain the policies and science that propelled the “windcatters” to reap the great harvest of Texas wind. They also explore what the future holds for this relentless resource that is changing the face of Texas energy.
Download or read book 2009 Wind Energy written by University of Texas at Austin. School of Law. Continuing Legal Education and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Law written by Ernest Edgar Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roping the Texas Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas State Energy Conservation Office presents the full text of a fact sheet entitled "Roping the Texas Breezes." The fact sheet discusses the use of wind power in Texas, including wind turbines, wind projects in Texas, wind-driven megawatts, and farming in Texas using wind power.
Download or read book Stability adjusted wind power in the Texas coastal zone written by Vernon Frederick Huxoll and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
