Energy Law

Fall 2012 – Palmiter

First Class

Updated 28 Aug 2012

http://www.wfu.edu/~palmitar/Courses/Energy%20Law/Index.html

Wikibook updates/revisions

Energy sources

Energy demand

http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/diagram1.cfm

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http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pecss_diagram.cfm

Pop quiz

• DOE• EPA• EISA• FERC• FPA• FPC• NGA• NGPA• PURPA

• 1920• 1935• 1938• 1977• 1978• 1982• 1992• 2005• 2007

Tragedy of commons?

• Antitrust law• Public utility law• Environmental law• Market-traded caps• Taxes

“We already have the technology we need to take the world off the path toward dramatic climate change.”

Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala,

Stabilization Wedges (2004)

http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/intro.php

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