Preliminary analysis of legal obstacles and incentives to the development of low-head hydroelectric power in the Northeastern United States

• Main Authors: Brown, P. W., Buxton, A. W.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: 13 HYDRO ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; CONNECTICUT; LOW-HEAD HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; DELAWARE; ILLINOIS; INDIANA; KENTUCKY; LEGAL ASPECTS; MAINE; MARYLAND; MASSACHUSETTS; MICHIGAN; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; OHIO; PENNSYLVANIA; RHODE ISLAND; VERMONT; VIRGINIA; WEST VIRGINIA; WISCONSIN; ECONOMICS; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; NATIONAL GOVERNMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGULATIONS; STATE GOVERNMENT; USA; CENTRAL REGION; GREAT LAKES REGION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; POWER PLANTS; SOUTHEAST REGION; Low Head; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6220694; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6220694; https://doi.org/10.2172/6220694

This report presents a preliminary analysis of the legal obstacles and incentives to the development of the low-head hydroelectric potential of the nineteen states making up the northeastern quandrant of the U.S. The intended subject matters of the report are the statutes and case laws of the ninete...