The tax proposal originally offered by the US House of Representatives and the final version of the comprehensive budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as developed in the Senate, contain some key...more
The US House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act), which includes a tax package that would extend certain provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire at the end of...more
Recent policy shifts at the federal level have introduced significant variability to the US renewable energy sector. While demand for clean energy continues to grow, executive orders, regulatory changes, and evolving...more
6/9/2025
/ Clean Energy ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Projects ,
Executive Orders ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Offshore Wind ,
Permits ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tax Credits
The energy storage industry has continued to progress over the course of 2024 and into 2025, buoyed in significant part by the federal income tax benefits in the form of tax credits enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act...more
A Global Opportunity and Regulatory Roadmap for Energy Storage in 2025 The energy storage sector maintained its upward trajectory in 2024, with estimates indicating that global energy storage installations rose by more than...more
The US Department of Treasury and the IRS on May 16 released Notice 2024-41, which provides a new elective safe harbor that taxpayers may use to qualify for the domestic content bonus credit amount under Sections 45, 45Y, 48,...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) in late December 2023 setting forth rules that would apply to the tax credits for...more
This report comes to you at the turning of the tide for energy storage: after two years of rising prices and supply chain disruptions, the energy storage industry is starting to see price declines and much-anticipated supply...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) recently published proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) setting forth rules applicable to the credit for the production of clean...more
1/8/2024
/ Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Hydrogen Power ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
IRS ,
Production Tax Credit ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tax Credits ,
U.S. Treasury
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released proposed regulations on November 17, 2023 addressing the investment tax credit (ITC) for renewable energy and energy storage...more
The Internal Revenue Service and US Department of the Treasury released Notice 2023-38 on May 12, which establishes rules for testing an applicable “green” energy facility’s eligibility for a bonus federal income tax credit...more
Energy storage: the technology that will cash the checks written by the renewable energy industry. Energy storage can transform intermittent clean energy—primarily derived from wind and solar—into a reliable source of 24/7...more
Despite global economic headwinds, the US offshore wind industry has continued to slowly but steadily blossom, driven largely by enhanced vision and cooperation among federal government agencies under the Biden...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which was signed into law on August 16, 2022, enacted a wide range of legislation addressing climate change, healthcare, prescription drug pricing, and tax matters. Specific to...more
On January 1, 2023, newly constructed standalone energy storage facilities became eligible for an investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48 of the Internal Code of 1986, as amended (Code), pursuant to provisions of the...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, passed by the US Senate on August 7, 2022, will dramatically affect a range of climate change, healthcare, prescription drug pricing, and tax matters. With an investment of more than $400...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 proposes significant changes and expansions to the existing federal income tax benefits for renewable energy, fuel production, and other green technologies....more
A new coronavirus (COVID-19) relief bill—the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which includes the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (the Act)—was signed into law on December 27. The Act not only...more
1/4/2021
/ Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Energy Projects ,
Green Technology ,
Infrastructure ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
New Legislation ,
Offshore Wind ,
Production Tax Credit ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Tax Planning ,
Wind Power
The US Congress has adopted the first extensive update to US federal energy policies in over a decade in the Energy Act of 2020 (Energy Act), which President Donald Trump signed into law on December 27 as part of the...more
12/30/2020
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Infrastructure ,
New Legislation ,
Nuclear Power ,
Popular ,
Power Grid ,
Renewable Energy ,
Tax Credits
The proposed regulations, released on May 28 and on which taxpayers may currently rely pending finalization, build on prior guidance for carbon capture and sequestration tax credits under Section 45Q of the Internal Revenue...more
6/2/2020
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Carbon Emissions ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Energy Projects ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Popular ,
Real Estate Development ,
Renewable Energy ,
Revenue Procedures ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Planning ,
Urban Planning & Development
The guidance issued on February 19 by the Internal Revenue Service is the type that the carbon capture and storage industry had sought, and will hopefully open up the market for investment by eliminating tax-related...more
2/21/2020
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Carbon Emissions ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Energy Projects ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Income Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
Investors ,
IRS ,
Production Tax Credit ,
Qualifying Facility ,
Real Estate Development ,
Renewable Energy ,
Revenue Procedures ,
Safe Harbors ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Equity Partnership ,
Tax Planning ,
Underground Storage Tanks ,
Urban Planning & Development
The five-year tax credit extension for wind and solar power facilities is a welcome development for the renewable energy industry in light of recent indications by Congress of a push to end tax credit benefits for wind and...more