FERC Declares QFs Lose Exemptions if Ownership Information is Outdated
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled Thursday that a power project is not exempted as a qualifying facility (QF) from various federal rules if
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February 24, 2026
US Renewables Policy Outlook for 2026
A panel of veteran Washington-based energy policy observers talked the last week in January about the current federal policy outlook for renewable energy.
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February 18, 2026
Mexico Announces Invitation for Joint Venture Projects
Mexico formally invited private developers that are interested in developing power projects jointly with the national utility, CFE, in joint venture.
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February 17, 2026
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New FEOC Guidance: Notice 2026-15
The IRS is expected to issue guidance on other FEOC issues on a rolling basis. No target dates have been announced.
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February 13, 2026
CFE Publishes Guidelines For Some Mexican Projects
The market is in for another rollercoaster ride this year on the policy front.
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February 12, 2026
Cost Of Capital: 2026 Outlook
The market is in for another rollercoaster ride this year on the policy front.
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January 29, 2026
Racing To Meet Electricity Demand
Four prominent renewable energy industry veterans talked about what to expect in 2026 and beyond at the annual Infocast Projects & Money conference in New Orleans in mid-January.
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January 16, 2026
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Tariff Refunds
A lawsuit by Costco to preserve its rights to refunds in the event the US Supreme Court rules that roughly half the tariffs imposed ...
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December 3, 2025
Massachusetts Bills Could Impede New Battery Projects
The Massachusetts legislature is considering three proposed bills that would significantly obstruct development of new battery energy storage systems.
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November 19, 2025
Mexico Issues New Regulations to Govern the Electric Sector
Mexico released new guidelines earlier this month for private power projects.
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October 19, 2025
DOE Relaunches Financial Support
The US Department of Energy is taking steps to relaunch federal financial support for new transmission lines and baseload power plants.
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September 30, 2025
California Conformity on Tax Credit Sales
California moved one step closer yesterday to waiving state income taxes on tax credit sale proceeds.
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September 12, 2025
Renewables Deal Flow After 2026
The US is rapidly curtailing subsidies for renewable energy and putting obstacles in the way of new wind and solar projects.
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September 1, 2025
Renewables Valuations
Are current low renewables valuations an opportunity to pick up assets or a sign that equity is steering clear of renewables and the US market?
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August 28, 2025
Data Centers and Natural Gas
Renewable energy remains the most readily available source of electricity in the near term.
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August 25, 2025
New Construction-Start Rules for Wind and Solar
The US Treasury made it harder Friday for wind and solar projects to be considered under construction in time to qualify for federal tax credits.
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August 15, 2025
The Shift Back to Gas
The federal government is making a concerted effort to promote construction of new power plants that burn fossil fuels.
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August 1, 2025
Data centers and water
Data centers should be co-located where possible with existing water facilities, such as wastewater treatment plants. They need lots of water for cooling. The need for water can be an important constraint on location.
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July 14, 2025
Working Through The FEOC Maze
New FEOC -- for "foreign entity of concern" -- rules will deny technology-neutral tax credits on new power plants and energy storage projects that use too
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July 8, 2025
Effects Of "One Big Beautiful Bill" On Projects
The massive budget reconciliation bill that President Trump signed on July 4 will set off a rush to start construction of more projects by year end 2025 a
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July 7, 2025
Data Center Financing Structures
Data center financings in the United States were $30 billion in 2024 and are expected to reach $60 billion this year.
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June 11, 2025
Effects of the Final House Tax Bill on Projects
The House Ways and Means Committee cleared $3.8 trillion in tax proposals on Wednesday morning by a party-line 26-19 vote after working all night and batt
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May 22, 2025
Texas Legislature Debates Electricity
The Texas state legislature is debating bills that would affect the power sector.
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April 26, 2025
Updated Solar Import Tariffs
A hoped for easing of tariffs affecting the renewable energy sector once President Biden took office has not happened.
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April 22, 2025
More Trump Executive Orders
Three more Trump executive orders in the past week have the potential to affect US power projects.
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April 13, 2025
Reconciliation Update
Senate Republicans released the budget resolution on April 2 that they hope to put through the Senate this week and then try to muscle it through ...
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April 3, 2025
Reciprocal Tariffs
President Trump said this afternoon the US will begin collecting a 10% universal tariff on all imports starting April 5.
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April 2, 2025
Se emiten nuevas leyes para el Sector Eléctrico en México
El gobierno mexicano ha aprobado y publicado una nueva legislación integral para el sector eléctrico.
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March 27, 2025
Mexico Enacts New Laws for the Power Sector
The Mexican government has implemented sweeping legislation for the energy sector Mexico, including a new electric sector law -- called the LESE
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March 27, 2025
Crystal Ball
Three veteran Washington insiders had a wide-ranging discussion at the 20th annual renewable energy law conference at the University of Texas.
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February 26, 2025
Turbulence
A panel of CEOs and chief financial officers of large renewable energy developers talked at the Infocast Projects & Money conference in New Orleans.
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February 21, 2025
Faster Depreciation for Mexican Projects
The Mexican government said in a decree last month that it will allow faster depreciation of new fixed assets acquired after January 27, 2025.
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February 10, 2025
Practical Steps to Take After Trump Tariffs
US President Donald Trump signed three executive orders late Saturday imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China.
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February 3, 2025
Cost Of Capital: 2025 Outlook
The market enters a period of uncertainty as a new administration takes office in Washington.
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January 24, 2025
Trump Executive Orders
The executive orders that President Trump signed this week have a number of potential effects on the project finance market.
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January 22, 2025
Updated Domestic Content Calculations
The US Treasury updated a table last week that is used to calculate the domestic content of solar, onshore wind and storage projects.
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January 20, 2025
Paradigm Shift
Chris Seiple, vice chairman of Wood Mackenzie, a research and data company, joined Keith Martin in early December to talk about the consequences of. . .
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December 30, 2024
Market Forecasts Post-Election
Five prominent stock analysts and market watchers talked on a live podcast November 20 about how the market is reacting to the prospects for the . . .
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December 2, 2024
Post-Election Outlook for the US Energy Transition
A group of five Washington insiders talked on November 14, the day after it became clear that Republicans will control both houses of Congress, about ...
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November 18, 2024
Mexico Restructures the Electricity Sector
The new Mexican government is moving rapidly to put its imprint on the renewable energy sector.
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November 11, 2024
Two Years In: Semiconductor Funding Sources Proliferate
Semiconductor companies are being given large sums of money and tax credits by the federal government and state and local governments to expand ...
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November 8, 2024
State Restrictions on Foreign Investment in Renewable Energy Projects
At least 22 states have enacted laws since the start of last year restricting and, in some cases, barring foreign investment in US farm land and in projec
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November 5, 2024
Renewables Under Trump
Four Republican insiders and a senior Washington energy policy analyst talked at our 33rd annual energy finance conference in June about what is likely to
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September 10, 2024
PTC Inflation Adjustment
Production tax credits for producing renewable electricity are higher this year than in 2023.
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July 11, 2024
Texas Broker License Needed to Negotiate Wind Lease
The Texas attorney general said that non-lawyers negotiating to lease sites for Texas wind farms on behalf of project developers must be licensed.
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June 27, 2024
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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June 25, 2024
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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June 24, 2024
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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May 29, 2024
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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May 28, 2024
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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May 17, 2024
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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April 25, 2024
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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April 22, 2024
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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April 21, 2024
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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March 22, 2024
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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March 6, 2024
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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February 25, 2024
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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February 19, 2024
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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February 6, 2024
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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February 6, 2024
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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January 14, 2024
Hydrogen Tax Credit Guidance
New hydrogen tax credit rules released by the US Treasury just before Christmas will make it hard to finance projects that use electrolyzers.
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January 4, 2024
Manufacturer tax credits under section 45X
Guidance the US Treasury released on December 14 for claiming section 45X tax credits for manufacturing components for solar, wind and storage projects ..
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December 17, 2023
FERC Moves to Break the Interconnection Logjam
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued new interconnection rules that will apply to nearly every transmitting utility outside of ERCOT.
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November 30, 2023
New Investment Tax Credit Regulations
New investment tax credit regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service on Friday answered a number of questions that the market ...
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November 20, 2023
Wage and Apprentice Requirements
The Internal Revenue Service filled in many missing details this week in new wage and apprentice requirements with which developers must comply to ...
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August 31, 2023
