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Taking stock of community solar
A panel of five community solar experts talked in late February in Boston about new trends in the community solar market, including evolving contract terms
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Tax equity and construction delays
The tax equity market is wrestling with a series of issues tied to inflation and construction delays. Developers form a separate special-purpose project co
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How hedges have changed since Uri
Lee Taylor, with REsurety in Boston The hedge market is offering the same menu of options a year and a half after a sudden cold snap in Texas left some pow
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Carbon capture terms
Interest in carbon capture projects has soared over the past year. To document commercial terms, some parties are re-purposing concepts from gas and refine
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Tariffs, inflation and other challenges
A panel of veteran financiers at the annual ACORE finance forum in New York in early June was optimistic, but cautious about whether the Biden proclamation
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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
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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
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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
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Ep193: DOE Loan Program Office Update
Jigar Shah, Director of the Department of Energy's Loan Program Office, joins us to discuss the mission of the program and what it is working on right now.
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Ep192: Biden's Executive Order
Stefan Reisinger, partner Norton Rose Fulbright’s Washington office, joins us for a closer look at the Biden action yesterday to shield solar panels import
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Ep191: Recent Evolution of the Hedge Market
Lee Taylor, CEO of REsurety, joins us to discuss the recent evolution of the hedge market due to the impacts of winter storm Uri. We get into the spectrum
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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
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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
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Solar panel import duties: Construction and procurement
The US Department of Commerce’s decision to investigate antidumping and duties on solar imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam has resulted
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Ep190: Climate Insurance and the Solar Industry
Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins us to discuss the company’s $20M Series B fundraise and the emergence of climate insurance. We discuss what the
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