Peter Funk summarizes the legal and contractual issues related to power purchase or energy services agreements (PPAs or ESAs) involved when a hospital retains a third-party provider to procure, install, own and operate a CHP and boiler system on hospital premises. This paper was presented at the 2018 World Energy Engineering Congress in Charlotte, NC.
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Peter Funk moderated a program at the NYC Bar Association, "Energy Efficiency Financing: Policy Landscape and Practical Solutions," providing an overview of current New York State and City regulatory policies for implementing and financing energy efficiency projects.
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Peter Funk reviewed interpretation of force majeure clauses for an audience of New York City building owners, coop and condo building board members, building engineers and landlords.
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The key goal of edge computing, an emerging sector, is to provide faster service of online content to a user population with reliability and enhanced connectivity based upon moving the servers in closer proximity to the user and the data. To those who work in the edge computing sector, it would be helpful to review similar issues that have arisen in the distributed energy generation (DG) industry, which locates small generators near or within the facilities of users. This article focuses on conceptual parallels between the DG and edge data center sectors.