Recently, Alan Anderson and I were thrilled to be invited to present to a class at the Washburn University Law School. For those of you that don’t know, Washburn has developed a truly exceptional energy and oil & gas law program (something that I dearly wish I could have had in law school), thanks in large part to the efforts of Prof. David Pierce. When Prof. Pierce’s invites us to do just about anything, we usually jump at the chance.
For this presentation, our goal was to provide a high-level but fairly comprehensive overview of the types of legal issues that arise during the main stages of a wind project’s design, construction and operation phases. Interestingly, after we sat down to plan out the basic categories of information that we wanted to cover, we realized the rough outline of our presentation could be converted into an interesting one-page resource. With a little coaxing, we were able to distill our notes down into the following chart:
When it came to preparing the presentation itself, however, we obviously had to provide quite a bit more detail on each of the three main phases of project development. Our environmental law colleague, Adam Troutwine, proved to be invaluable (as he so often does) by providing an overview of the various state and federal permits that are required for a wind project. A copy of our PowerPoint is available here:
I know that I speak for Alan in once again thanking Washburn, Prof. Pierce, and the students for inviting us to speak., and we are very much looking forward to the opportunity to do it again soon.
As always, if you have any questions about any of the materials that we’ve linked to above, or any of the issues discussed therein, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at lhagedorn@polsinelli.com or give me a call at (816)572-4756.