Renewables and Property Rights

Oftentimes, when a landowner decides they would like to host a wind or solar farm on their property, they face a complex and contentious process to get there. There are federal, state, and

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GUIDELINES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY CLAIMS

Homes and businesses that generate onsite renewable electricity—from a rooftop solar photovoltaic system, for example—can claim the renewable electricity their system generates only if they are

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Property Rights & Clean Energy

Federal government should protect private property rights to site clean energy projects. Solar is often built on farmland because it is flat and cleared—two characteristics suitable for solar energy as it

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Solar Project Property Rights: Securing Long-Term Land Control for

This chapter of The Law of Solar Guide offers essential insights for developing and operating low-maintenance, high-return solar projects while navigating complex real property matters.

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Solar Power Use Claims Guidance | US EPA

This guide describes best practices for appropriately explaining and characterizing solar power activities and the fundamental importance of renewable energy certificates (RECs) for solar

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Solar power generation property rights certificate

Learn how to secure long-term property rights for solar energy projects, including leases, easements, and addressing title and water rights issues. This chapter of The Law of Solar Guide offers essential

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Renewable Energy Certificates and Renewable Electricity Use Claims

RECs are legally recognized contractual instruments and property rights that are the basis for renewable electricity use claims on the grid (Center for Resource Solutions, 2023a; Harvard Law

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Renewable Energy Credits as Property

Accordingly, RECs provide an exclusive right for a party to claim a MWh of electricity as their own. Students and scholars of property may recognize this description of RECs as carrying an

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Property Rights Factsheet

Property rights determine how land can be used, bought, and sold, and what others can and cannot do on or around that land. Property rights vary across the nation due to local zoning regulations and

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State Solar Renewable Energy Certificate Markets | US EPA

A renewable energy certificate (REC) is a market-based instrument that represents the property rights to the environmental, social, and other non-power attributes of renewable electricity

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