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Manufacturer tax credits: Section 48C

Manufacturers who plan to apply for an initial round of $4 billion in tax credits for building production lines to make products for the green economy.

Contract manufacturing

Contract manufacturing is becoming more important as some manufacturers angling for section 45X credits for making components for wind, solar and storage.

Purchase Price Allocations

Buyers of projects that qualify for future government payments must allocate part of the purchase price to such payments.

Domestic content calculations

Project developers are having a hard time getting the data they need from manufacturers to do the calculations required to claim a domestic content bonus

Comparing carbon offset credits

Demand for voluntary carbon credits is outpacing the supply. The supply is hampered by concerns about quality of the carbon credits.

Key issues for hydrogen developers

Green hydrogen projects are significantly more complicated than the typical wind or solar project.

LMI bonus credit guidance

Bonus tax credits of 10% or 20% of project cost can be claimed on some community and rooftop solar projects. The complexity is vastly out of proportion...

Potential stimulus for carbon capture and clean hydrogen

New EPA rules should create more demand for carbon capture and low-carbon hydrogen at coal- and gas-fired power plants.

Environmental update

The US Supreme Court stripped protection under the Clean Water Act for more than 50% of the nation's previously-regulated wetlands.

Wage and apprentice negotiations

Developers are having to negotiate more wage and apprentice provisions in construction contracts now that the January 28 deadline to avoid them has passed

Tax credit sales

Prices have been mainly in the 90¢ to 93¢ range, but are creeping higher. Buyers can carry back tax credits and recover taxes paid up to three years...

Ep211: New Proposed IRS Guidance on Tax Credits Transferability

Hilary Lefko, partner in Norton Rose Fulbright, joins host Todd Alexander in an in-depth conversation on the proposed tax credits guidance and ...

IRS Transferability Guidance

The tax credit sales market should ramp up quickly. Buyers will have to repay the government if tax credits are recaptured or disallowed on audit.

Ep210: Fuel Cells

Gregory Adams, Senior Vice President of FuelCell Energy, joins host Todd Alexander for a discussion about fuel cells, what they are, where they are used, w

Ep209: New legislation in Texas creates a murky landscape for renewables

Judd Messer and Jeffrey Clark of the Advanced Power Alliance in Texas join host Todd Alexander in a lively discussion on the new legislation passed in Texa

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