Embracing hydrogen
Two competing narratives about hydrogen played out the last two years in the press. One was that hydrogen is being pitched by the fossil fuel community...
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The Inflation Reduction Act and DOE loan programs
The Inflation Reduction Act upsizes the existing US Department of Energy loan programs. It also establishes new programs for transmission projects and...
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The evolving energy storage market
The energy storage market is still in its infancy, but it is evolving rapidly. Portfolios of standalone utility-scale batteries are now being financed...
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Current financing challenges
How are tax equity investors and lenders addressing the unusually large number of risks this year? Tangled supply chains and labor shortages are caus...
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Environmental update: August 2022
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), had to agree to a broad outline for a separate permitting reform bill to win support from Senator...
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August 2022
IN THIS ISSUE Searching for opportunities in the Inflation Reduction Act Companies are scrambling to assess the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on t
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Schumer-Manchin Deal Bolts Forward
The tax equity market will look different if the surprise deal that the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, sealed yesterday with Democratic holdout Joe
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Effects Of West Virginia v EPA On Power Sector
The US Supreme Court today rejected six to three certain steps the EPA tried in the past to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Customs gets tougher on forced labor
Solar companies are anxious about whether tougher enforcement of a US prohibition against importing products that benefited from Chinese forced labor will
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Anti-circumvention duty moratorium
Tariff moratorium regulations are expected soon. The US Department of Commerce must issue regulations to implement a 24-month moratorium on any anti-circum
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2022 PTC inflation adjustment
Production tax credits for producing renewable electricity will be slightly lower this year than thought earlier after the Internal Revenue Service correct
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Climate change disclosures
Climate change disclosures that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing to require of public companies could have two indirect effects on po
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Challenges facing individuals as tax equity investors
Ever wonder why as an individual, you probably cannot claim the investment tax credit or production tax credits? The passive activity loss rules prevent in
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Ex-Im Bank financing for US manufacturing
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is moving forward with plans to finance construction of new US factories and expansion of existing factories th
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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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