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Environmental update: June 2022

New York lawmakers passed a bill designed to slow the spread of cryptocurrency mining operations that burn fossil fuels for power in early June. New York G

Project sales still closing despite circumvention risk

Sales of solar projects and solar development platforms are still closing, despite some risk that a court could still block implementation of a 24-month mo

Private activity bonds for carbon capture

A massive bipartisan infrastructure act that became law last November authorizes tax-exempt “private activity bonds” to be used to finance carbon capture p

June 2022

IN THIS ISSUE Tariffs, inflation and other challenges A panel of veteran financiers at the annual ACORE finance forum in New York in early June . . . Proje

Solar panel import duties: contract minefield

The risk that anti-circumvention duties will have to be paid on Chinese-branded solar panels entering the United States from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand an

March 2022

IN THIS ISSUE Effects of the Russian invasion Leading project finance market participants were split as the NewsWire went to press about the effect the Rus

Sophisticated use of political risk insurance

Lenders and equity investors in emerging market projects can make more sophisticated country risk analyses, insuring selected risks in a manner that...

Representations and warranties insurance data and claims

Roughly 20% of representations and warranties insurance policies issued between 2016 and 2018 had claims made on them within three years after the...

Customs seizures of solar panels

US Customs is starting to release some blocked Chinese solar panels.

Solar panel import duties

US import tariffs on solar cells and panels could remain a battleground into the summer.

The road ahead

The talk at the annual Infocast Projects & Money conference in New Orleans in late January was about the rapidly evolving US renewable energy market.

Effects of the Russian invasion

Leading project finance market participants were split as the NewsWire went to press about the effect the Russian invasion of Ukraine will have on...

Policy outlook for US renewable energy

Law firms are fielding constant questions about the outlook for the “Build Back Better” bill, whether certain provisions risk being left behind and what..

Replacing LIBOR

Replacing LIBOR with SOFR will not trigger US tax consequences, as long as the change doesn’t cross one of four tripwires.

Crypto mining opportunities

Cryptocurrency miners are becoming a potentially lucrative outlet for some power suppliers

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