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Maryland Vetoes Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

vetoed an increase in the State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard that would have resulted in higher electricity prices across the State. The legislation has been characterized as a “tax increase” to be levied upon every electricity ratepayer in Maryland. of their total electric supply into Maryland.

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Maryland Vetoes Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

vetoed an increase in the State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard that would have resulted in higher electricity prices across the State. The legislation has been characterized as a “tax increase” to be levied upon every electricity ratepayer in Maryland. of their total electric supply into Maryland.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

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In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels. It is not good energy policy. It is not good environmental policy.

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Legislature Overrides Veto of Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Increase

Green Building Law Update

On February 2, 2017, the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates voted to override the veto of an increase the State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, as enacted in the 2016 Maryland General Assembly session. vetoed House Bill 1106 , that was characterized as a “sunshine tax” to be levied upon every electricity ratepayer in Maryland.

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State Not County has Authority to Regulate Solar Farms

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The question before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals was whether existing state law, which grants the Maryland Public Service Commission general regulatory powers over electric generating stations, including a “solar energy generating system,” preempts local zoning regulation regarding the location and construction of such a generating station.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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On the other hand, the code also encourages residential projects to install solar photovoltaic systems to lower the electricity demand. Going a step further than this, the city of Berkeley recently passed the nation’s first all-electric ordinance that mandates all new construction projects beginning January 1, 2020 to be built all-electric.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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