FERC Order 1920 on Transmission: How Big a Deal?
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order in May to deal with US grid congestion has been called a "watershed moment" by FERC Chairman Willie Phillips.
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Final Wage and Apprentice Requirements
The Internal Revenue Service filled in many missing details this week in new wage and apprentice requirements.
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Accelerated Transmission Line Approvals For Priority Projects
Companies developing new transmission line projects can now call on the US Department of Energy (DOE) to help accelerate government approvals ...
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California Decarbonization Dilemma
by Jeff Bodington, with Bodington & Company in San Francisco An analysis of California Energy Commission data for the most recent year available, 2022, sho
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Simpler Domestic Content Calculations
The US Treasury greatly simplified the calculations today to determine whether solar, onshore wind and battery projects have enough domestic content to qu
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Final Tax Credit Sale Guidance
New tax credit sale regulations released today by the Internal Revenue Service are largely the same as proposed tax credit sale regulations issued in June
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Forever Chemicals Starting To Affect Project Finance Market
A US Environmental Protection Agency decision in late April to expand federal regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as “PFAS,” ...
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Maxeon Claims Solar Panel Patent Infringement
Maxeon has accused Canadian Solar, REC Solar and Hanwha of infringing three Maxeon patents by making, importing and selling n-type solar panels.
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More Areas Qualify as Energy Communities
The IRS added 446 more US counties today to the list of counties where renewable energy projects qualify potentially for a 10% energy community tax credit
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Trump and the Renewables Policy Outlook
Leaders of the three main renewable energy trade associations and the head of energy and climate policy work for a conservative think tank ...
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Current Market Conditions
The past year in the US renewable energy industry has been the story of a strong tailwind offset to some degree by various headwinds. Conditions are ...
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Cost of Capital: 2024 Outlook
Four veteran tax equity investors and project lenders talked during a live podcast in mid-January about what to expect in the tax equity, tax credit sale
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Reformas a Ley de la Industria Eléctrica en México son Declaradas Parcialmente Inconstitucionales
La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación declaró que parte de las reformas a la Ley de la Industria Eléctrica (LIE) que el presidente de México ...
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Mexican Power Reforms Partly Unconstitutional
The Mexican Supreme Court declared amendments to the electric industry law (LIE) that Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lόpez Obrador put through the Mexica
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Auxin Challenges Solar Tariff Moratorium
Some US solar developers may have to add new contingent liabilities to their balance sheets on account of a lawsuit filed by two US manufacturers in ...
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