Articles and legal alerts on energy markets, environmental commodities, market oversight, and commercial risk. Publication dates identify when each analysis was written.
Explore Paul’s writing and speaking across his career, including earlier publications and conference materials.
Browse the career bibliography →11 publications
Paul B. Turner | Turner Commodities Law, PLLC
Examines the financial commitments under Texas’s adopted large-load interconnection rule, including study fees, intermediate and SLLIA security, collateral release, treatment of existing and Batch Zero projects, and the separate ERCOT data-center review.
Read the analysis →Paul Turner, Principal, Turner Commodities Law, PLLC; James Guy, Principal, Deacon Law Group, PLLC
A guide to the interlocking gas, generation, power, retail service, ERCOT, hedging, credit, and development obligations involved in serving hyperscale data centers, with a practical approval checklist and a focus on risks between contracts.
Read the analysis →The Senate permitting proposal would broaden federal transmission siting outside ERCOT and add separate data-center cost and financial-assurance protections. This alert explains the ERCOT carveout, the 20 MW covered-load threshold, and the interaction with current PUCT and ERCOT requirements.
Read the analysis →Examines the emerging market for certified natural gas, including methane-intensity measurement, verification risk, chain-of-custody and double-counting concerns, and the development of trading platforms and institutional infrastructure designed to improve market integrity.
Read the analysis →A January 2026 assessment of climate-disclosure uncertainty, compliance exposure, and practical governance considerations.
Read the analysis →How federal support and tax-credit changes affect hydrogen project execution, financing, and commodity transactions.
Read the analysis →Fraud exposure, contractual discipline, and U.S. compliance risk in voluntary carbon markets.
Read the analysis →Summarizes the CFTC’s changes to the Wells process and internal enforcement memoranda.
Read the analysis →Discusses the CFTC’s withdrawal of staff guidance on virtual carbon credits.
Read the analysis →Analyzes the Fifth Circuit’s decision on the SEC short sale disclosure rule.
Read the analysis →Original legal alert on DOE’s October 2023 selection of seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs for up to $7 billion in public funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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