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The market witnessed a flurry of renewable energy and clean tech IPOs from 2010-2015 followed by select names in the second half of the decade.

Yesterday, Treasury and the IRS issued final regulations on the expanded carbon capture tax credit implementing a number of welcome changes and clarifications to the proposed regulations.

Late last night, Congress passed the COVID-19 relief bill, which provides extensions for key renewable energy tax credits.

Hydrogen technology is experiencing a renewed wave of interest due to the decreasing costs of producing low- or zero-carbon hydrogen and expanded applications for hydrogen in the energy sector.

Nationally and globally, there is growing focus on renewable fuels as a potentially profitable part of the strategy to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change.

It was a moment that many had been anticipating for years, yet the latest crop of V&E partners didn’t fete their promotions with parties and champagne. Instead they fielded congratulatory phone calls, took part in virtual coffee breaks and held small celebrations at home with their families. But pandemic-related complications notwithstanding, the new partners —…

On December 9, Eamon Nolan, a Vinson & Elkins LLP partner in the New York office, moderated an insightful and exciting one-hour panel, “Unlocking the Hydrogen Economy.”

Over the past several decades, public opinion and government policy directives have shifted significant resources away from carbon intensive sources, to cleaner and renewable alternatives.

In 1874, in his book “The Mysterious Island,” science fiction writer Jules Verne envisioned a world powered by hydrogen. Nearly a century and a half later, the idea that hydrogen can play a crucial part in the clean energy transition is anything but a fantasy. As the cost of producing clean hydrogen has declined and…

Vinson & Elkins is pleased to be sponsoring WECA X, the virtual edition of the Energy Council's annual World Energy Capital Assembly.

Many view renewable energy (e.g., solar, wind) as having a low environmental risk profile and are not prepared for the myriad compliance and enforcement risks that may arise from the development of renewable power projects.

Many view renewable energy (e.g., solar, wind) as having a low environmental risk profile and are not prepared for the myriad compliance and enforcement risks that may arise from the development of renewable power projects.