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Monetizing Opportunities in Energy Storage in a Post-IRA World
Optimizing Investments in Energy Storage
Value Creation in the Transferable Tax Market
Energy transition is going through what can be described as growing pains. Here to stay, but the reality of what it is going to take to diversify energy resources will take decades. And I stress the word “diversify” as...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
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
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 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
President Trump last week signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”). The Act made a number of changes to the clean electricity production credit under Section 45Y of the Internal Revenue Code (the “PTC”), the...more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, following its passage out of the U.S. Senate by the slimmest of margins (51-50) requiring the vote of the Vice President to break the...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
President Trump yesterday issued an executive order, “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources” (the “Executive Order”), which could have a major impact on wind and solar energy...more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act into law, which scales back renewable energy tax provisions. The final bill did, however, contain more favorable renewable energy tax provisions...more
On July 3, 2025, after a tumultuous week, the Senate and House passed a version of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act that contains the most favorable renewable energy credit provisions in any iteration of the bill....more
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed a version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that differed significantly from the version previously passed on May 22 by the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 1. Front of mind for...more
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed its version of The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act, the massive budget bill that contains significant provisions affecting tax credits for renewable energy project development. After...more
On July 1, 2025, the Senate passed (by a vote of 51-50) its version of the budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") containing numerous tax reform provisions. Below are our summaries of the...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
Wind and solar projects placed in service after 2027 would not be eligible for the clean electricity production or investment credit, and a new excise tax of up to 50% for wind and 30% for solar would be imposed on wind and...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
On June 23, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2025-31. This notice includes lists of information that taxpayers may use to determine whether they meet certain requirements...more
Ropes & Gray attended Proximo Congress 2025 in Nashville last week, where leading dealmakers and advisors convened to discuss the future of energy and digital infrastructure in the US against a backdrop of immense policy...more
On June 16 the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its revised text to the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). While the SFC version largely follows the House approach in repealing clean vehicle and residential...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 United States Senate Committee on Finance released a reconciliation bill draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1 – 119th Congress (2025-2026), following its passage in the House of...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released the text of its version of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” which would phase out the investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48E and production tax credit (PTC)...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