Renewable Energy in the US: Where are we and what's next?
Date: Monday, March 31
Time: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Room 1314, UCLA School of Law
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Please join Allan Marks for a deep dive into the fast-changing US political and regulatory landscape for renewable energy, as the new Trump administration seeks to reshape the US energy sector. Marks will also discuss how the new direction of US energy policy will intersect with macro-economic and geopolitical trends and with the rising power demand from AI data centers, digital infrastructure and EVs.
Allan Marks is a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. He is a retired/consulting partner at Milbank LLP, where he practiced for over 30 years and was a partner in the firm’s Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group. He has handled complex transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe with an aggregate value of over $100 billion across multiple sectors: power and renewable energy, transportation, water supply and water treatment, airports, rail, port terminals, alternative fuels, social infrastructure, and telecommunications and digital infrastructure. Many of his transactions focused on the energy transition, renewable energy, innovative clean technologies, and sustainability. He is a Contributor to Forbes and speaks frequently on energy, infrastructure, climate change, business strategy, financial markets, public policy, and international transactions and has been interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, POLITICO Pro, CNN Business, Bloomberg, S&P Global Market Intelligence, and other media outlets. He received a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.