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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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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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
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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...
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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...
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Customs seizures of solar panels
US Customs is starting to release some blocked Chinese solar panels.
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Solar panel import duties
US import tariffs on solar cells and panels could remain a battleground into the summer.
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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.
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