Spring 2013 Seminar Series: Alexandra Klass

Join the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the UPEP Environmental Institution for our Spring 2013 seminar series featuring leading experts discussing a variety of pressing environmentally focused topics.University of Minnesota Law Professor Alexandra Klass will present on "Interstate Transmission Challenges for Renewable Energy: A Federalism Mismatch." It is impossible to talk about developing renewable energy resources in the United States without also talking about electric transmission infrastructure. This talk will discuss current challenges to siting new, interstate electric transmission infrastructure to facilitate the growth of renewable energy. It will focus on recent legal and policy developments at the federal, state and regional levels with a specific emphasis on states with significant wind energy potential west of the Mississippi River.