4 Key Takeaways | Harnessing the Inflation Reduction Act: Driving Investments in Renewable Energy and Carbon Reduction
The Capacity Crunch, Part Three: Unpacking the Power of the IRA: The Potential Game-Changing Opportunities for Utilities - Energy Law Insights
Analyzing the Impact of the IRA on Energy Storage — Battery + Storage Podcast
Renewable Natural Gas – The Next Frontier
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
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....more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025. The OBBB offers material benefits to the players in the equipment finance industry including lessors, lessees, lenders, borrowers,...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
The result of the 2024 U.S. presidential election means uncertainty about future prospects for the renewable energy sector. President Donald Trump has been hostile in the past toward parts of the renewables industry –...more
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have released the final rules for the Sec. 48 Energy Credit – also known as the federal investment tax credit (ITC). For decades, the ITC has fueled U.S. clean...more
The increased interest in installing solar at affordable housing projects is not surprising given that the IRC Section 48 energy investment tax credit (ITC) could subsidize as much as 70 percent of the cost and the Inflation...more
Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) provides for an investment tax credit (“ITC”) for certain energy property. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) amended Section 48 in several...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS on Nov. 17, 2023, released long-awaited proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) regarding the investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code. Section...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury Department) recently released a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding four significant aspects of the investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code...more
Late last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury released the long-awaited proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) relating to investment tax credits under Section 48 of the Code...more
On June 1, 2023, the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking including proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) regarding the “Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program” established by the...more
On May 31, 2023, the Department of Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed rules that set forth application and eligibility criteria for the low-income communities bonus credit investment...more
More batteries. More people. More urgency to reduce grid queues. These are three key demands from companies in the US battery storage sector if the industry is to take full advantage of the IRA, which became law last August. ...more
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has supercharged global interest in U.S. battery storage, forcing companies to change their approach to the market. We look at how this generational legislation is driving growth and...more
Following the release of energy community bonus credit and low-income community bonus credit guidance, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS recently provided taxpayers with the domestic content bonus credit guidance....more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act). The Act includes multiple tax benefits for hydrogen production, storage and utilization, summarized in the following King & Spalding...more
As the renewable energy sector has grown in recent years, thanks in part to federal income tax credits, researchers and policymakers have begun to focus on the role of energy storage. Because wind and solar are intermittent...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
Efforts to introduce investment tax credit (ITC) incentives to support and accelerate the deployment of energy storage in the United States are gaining traction in Congress and the Biden Administration....more
On March 9, 2021, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced the “Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2021” (the “Act”) which is intended to extend certain investment tax credits to standalone energy...more
Congress passes spending bill with solar, wind tax credit extensions and energy R&D package - Bullet Greentech Media – December 22 - The U.S. Congress this Monday passed a massive spending bill that includes $35...more
The U.S. installed 4.5 GW of utility-scale solar in 2019 - Bullet PV Magazine – November 10 - More than 4.5 gigawatts of utility-scale solar came online in the United States in 2019, bringing cumulative capacity to...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
U.S. renewable energy consumption surpasses coal for the first time in over 130 years - U.S. Energy Information Administration – May 28 - In 2019, U.S. annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal...more
Focus - California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up - Los Angeles Times – July 31 - In the San Joaquin Valley alone, farmers may need to take more than half a million acres out of production to...more