Authors

John Perkins

Article Title

Overcoming Jurisdictional Obstacles to Feed-In Tariffs in the United States

Abstract

This Comment provides a brief survey of the current rules that delineate federal and state jurisdiction over electrical energy in the United States. Part II also discusses three important exceptions to these jurisdictional rules. This Comment then examines the FIT in the scheme of federal versus state jurisdiction. Part III discusses the value of the FIT and then analyzes the development of current jurisdictional rules that make state-law FITs untenable in the current legal landscape. Finally, Part IV proposes a solution in the form of a jurisdictional carve-out modeled on the Rural Electrification Act, an initiative that the federal government launched to promote energy development.

Recommended Citation

John Perkins, Overcoming Jurisdictional Obstacles to Feed-In Tariffs in the United States, 40 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. (2009).
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol40/iss1/5