4 Key Takeaways | Harnessing the Inflation Reduction Act: Driving Investments in Renewable Energy and Carbon Reduction
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Interconnection and Transmission of Renewable Energy
Tax Issues for Co-location of Energy Storage with Solar or Wind
Monetizing Opportunities in Energy Storage in a Post-IRA World
Optimizing Investments in Energy Storage
Value Creation in the Transferable Tax Market
The recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has introduced significant hurdles to obtaining the tax equity financing upon which solar developers have traditionally relied. As the industry seeks to adapt to...more
The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) released a Request for Information late Friday seeking “expressions of interest from potential project developers who believe that they can (1) meet the...more
President Donald J. Trump signed H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), into law on 4 July 2025 in an afternoon signing ceremony at the White House (Pub. L. No. 119-21). Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD)...more
Enacted in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) expanded energy tax credits by increasing credit amounts, broadening eligibility beyond wind and solar, and allowing credits to be developed and sold, as...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, significantly revising the U.S. tax code to reflect the Administration’s domestic energy, trade, and national security priorities. Among...more
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to phase out federal subsidies for green energy like wind and solar farms, citing unsustainability for the grid and too much reliance on foreign adversaries. The order...more
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a budget reconciliation package that significantly modifies the clean energy tax credit framework established by the Inflation...more
On July 3, 2025, the House approved the Senate’s legislative text (the “Senate Legislative Version”) for the budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) without any changes. Thus, the final...more
On July 4, 2025, H.R. 1 — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA) was enacted into law. We discussed the version of the bill that passed in the House in May (the House bill) in our previous update. On July 1, the Senate...more
The White House today issued an Executive Order that requires the Treasury Department to “issue new and revised guidance * * * to ensure that policies concerning the ‘beginning of construction’ are not circumvented, including...more
Under the Senate Finance Committee’s June 28th version of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill (the “Bill”), there are several limitations and requirements that would take effect based on the date a project begins construction. For...more
Over the weekend, the Senate released a revised draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, containing important revisions to clean energy tax credits and that, if passed, will impact the entire renewables industry. With this...more
Senator Mike Crapo released draft text of the Senate Finance Committee’s version of the budget reconciliation bill on June 16. The Senate draft budget includes positives for the large-scale solar market, such as amending...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its version of the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) that would create a steep phase-out of renewable energy tax credits—notably, renewable energy companies would have to...more
On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee released its version of the tax provisions of the Reconciliation Bill. Like the House version (H.R. 1) passed on May 22, the Senate version targets solar and wind tax incentives for...more
The United States Senate Committee on Finance this afternoon released draft text of its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which is available here. Although we are continuing to review the draft legislation, at a high...more
On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of H.R. 1—the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Bill) — by a vote of 215-214. The House-passed version of the bill, slated to be considered by the Senate...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which Senate Democrats intend to move through their chamber using a budget reconciliation process allowing it to pass with 50 votes (plus Vice President Harris breaking a tie) before it...more
The US energy storage industry is experiencing rapid growth, with approximately 3.5 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy storage installed in 2020, which is greater than the aggregate 3.1 GWh of energy storage installed from 2013...more
On December 21, the House and Senate reached agreement on extension of the production tax credit (PTC) for wind energy facilities and the investment tax credit (ITC) for wind and solar energy facilities....more
Intermittency is one of the largest issues impeding increased reliance on energy from utility-scale renewable energy generation sources such as wind and solar. Battery energy storage systems (“BESSs”) can alleviate concerns...more
In a rare display of bipartisanship, both houses of Congress and President Trump were able to come to agreement in the waning hours of the 2019 congressional session to extend government funding for fiscal year 2020. Included...more
Facing the traditional energy sector’s uncertain future and the decreased cost of producing renewable energy, many companies have taken to generating their own power. Manufacturers may be in an ideal position to do the same...more
On January 19, 2017, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2017-19 (the “Rev. Proc.”) providing a safe harbor for certain alternative energy sales contracts with federal agencies to be treated as...more
North Carolina has been a hotbed of activity for residential and utility scale solar developers. According to the Solar Energy Industry Association, the Tar Heel State ranks fourth in the country in terms of installed solar...more