David Burton
January 30, 2020
This presentation was given on January 29 at Northeastern University and was intended to provide the students with an overview of the distributed generatio
Distributed Generation Solar 101
Investing in US Solar: US Tax Aspects for Japanese Investors
David Burton
August 8, 2019
David Burton gave a presentation at the Japan Institute for Overseas Investment on US tax fundamentals for Japanese investors investing in US solar project
New Financial Products for Project Financiers
David Burton
June 10, 2019
Here’s a link to a short presentation that Rob Eberhardt and David Burton prepared on six new financial products for project financiers. The products are t
Soundbites from Novogradac’s Renewable Energy Conference
David Burton
June 4, 2019
Below are soundbites from Novogradac’s 2019 Financing Renewable Energy Tax Credits Spring Conference in San Francisco on May 23. The soundbites are from re
Soundbites from Infocast's Solar Power & Finance Summit
David Burton
May 28, 2019
Infocast’s Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit was held in San Diego on March 20 and 21. Below are sound bites from the speakers and panelists. The so
Q&A with A Word About Wind
David Burton
April 16, 2018
In its Finance Quarterly, A Word About Wind has published a brief Q&A between David Burton and its editor Richard Heap. The Q&A touches on a variety of is
The Dramatic Arc of the PTC
David Burton
October 2, 2017
My article The Dramatic Arc of the PTC was just published in North American WindPower and discusses the history of the production tax credit (PTC) from it
Dominion Takes on Normalization Rules
David Burton
April 2, 2016
Testimony on Feb. 23 to Virginia’s State Corporate Commission from an advisor to the commission described the strategy of Dominion’s Virginia Electric and
IRS Rules on Late Solar Inverted Lease Elections
David Burton
March 21, 2016
In two identical private letter rulings, LTR 201550024 and LTR 201550023, which were made public on December 11, the IRS granted a lessor in an inverted le
Court of Federal Claims Fumbles Section 1603 Discovery Dispute
David Burton
February 19, 2016
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims in a recent opinion, Bishop Hill Energy LLC v. United States, ruled against a discovery request made to the U.S. Treasury