Full Title: Reviving PURPA – Setting Fair Prices for Clean Energy
Author(s): Carolyn Elefant
Publisher(s): CleanEnergy.Org
Publication Date: October 1, 2011
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Description (excerpt):
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) needs to build on its recent decisions to encourage the development of alternative power technologies, says a new report titled, “Reviving PURPA’s Purpose.” The report was authored by attorney and federal energy policy expert Carolyn Elefant and commissioned by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
While the past decade has seen a burst in state energy policy leadership, FERC is responsible for guaranteeing nationwide access to the electric grid: entrepreneurs and established businesses who want to develop renewable energy resources depend on PURPA to sell their product in many areas of the country.