Category — DOI News
DOI Initiates Process to Lease Wind Projects on the Outer Continental Shelf
On April 21, 2010, the U.S. Department of the Interior (“Interior” or “DOI”) issued the nation’s first Request for Interest for the development of renewable energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf. The Request for Interest covers federal waters in between the shipping routes of the Delaware Bay off the coast of Delaware. [Read more →]
April 30, 2010 Comments Off
DOE, DOI, and Army Corps Sign MOU on Hydropower
March 29, 2010
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI) through the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), and Department of the Army (DOA) through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), announced on March 24, 2010 the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the federal agencies to promote the development of hydropower. Pursuant to the MOU, studies will be conducted over the next few years that may help industry determine which Federal dams and reservoirs would be best suited for non-Federal hydropower development. The process will hopefully determine which sites will have the fewest roadblocks from stakeholders, including the federal dam owners themselves. These studies may also lead to a determination of which projects can be most efficiently integrated into the grid. [Read more →]
March 26, 2010 Comments Off
Nine Agencies Sign MOU to Expedite Transmission Siting on Federal Lands
On October 28, 2009, the Obama Administration released a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) signed by nine agencies to streamline and expedite the siting and construction of electric transmission lines on federal land. [Read more →]
October 30, 2009 Comments Off
Interior Accelerating Seven Renewable Energy Transmission Projects
On September 30, 2009, U.S. Department of the Interior (“DOI”) Secretary Ken Salazar said that DOI will be fast-tracking seven of thirty project applications for rights of way on public lands in Idaho, California, and Nevada. [Read more →]
October 9, 2009 Comments Off
MMS Publishes Final Rules for Offshore Renewable Energy
On April 22, the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (“MMS”) approved final regulations to establish a program to grant leases, easements, and rights-of-way (“ROW”) for renewable energy activities on the Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”). The final rule is effective as of June 29, 2009. [Read more →]
May 1, 2009 Comments Off