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
On August 15, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) released new guidance on the “beginning of construction” for wind and solar facilities under the clean electricity...more
On August 15, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2025-42, providing long-awaited guidance on the “beginning of construction” requirements for wind and solar facilities under Sections 45Y and 48E of the...more
Treasury and the IRS today released guidance, Notice 2025-42 (the “Notice”), regarding what constitutes beginning of construction for solar and wind energy projects with respect to the production tax credit under Section 45Y...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
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
Days after signing into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which dramatically rolled back the availability of federal tax credits for solar and wind power projects, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO)...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBB), which significantly rolls back many of the core tax incentives that clean energy projects have relied on since the passage of the...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 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
On Aug. 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which includes various amendments and additions to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This is the second of two alerts...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the "IRA"), signed into law on August 16, 2022, is already causing shock waves in the renewables industry and energy transition space. Specifically, the IRA includes significant tax credit...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, and includes about $370 billon for American energy security and climate change. Those changes include very substantial extensions,...more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law. The IRA includes a host of programs aimed at addressing climate change and energy production. These include, for example, major new or...more
On August 12, 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“Act” or “IRA”), a $400 billion legislative package containing significant tax and other government incentives for the energy industry, in particular...more
This morning, the House passed H.R. 5376,[i] the Build Back Better Act (the “BBB Act”), by a vote of 220-213. If it clears the Senate and is signed into law, the BBB Act would represent one of the largest investments in U.S....more
On December 27, President Donald Trump signed a $1.4 trillion appropriations package funding the government through September 2021 and a $900 billion fiscal stimulus law for coronavirus aid. Media attention has focused on the...more
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed H.R. 133, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” an agglomeration of dozens of individual pieces of legislation which together total nearly 6,000 pages. While general press...more
On May 27, 2020, the US Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released Notice 2020-41 (the “Notice”), updating the IRS guidance on the start-of-construction rules for the production tax credit (“PTC”) and energy investment tax...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released Notice 2020-41 (the Notice), providing important relief with respect to the beginning-of-construction requirement for the production tax credit (PTC) and the investment tax...more
IRS Notice 2020-41 provides relief for renewable energy projects that began construction in 2016 or 2017 by extending the “continuity safe harbor” to a five-year period....more
Background - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt project development timelines generally, solar and wind projects that rely on federal income tax credits to obtain financing are particularly sensitive to...more
Focus - Renewable energy to expand by 50% in next five years - The Guardian – October 21 - Global supplies of renewable electricity are growing faster than expected and could expand by 50 percent in the next five years,...more
A Word About Wind has published our article What Is the Impact of Tax Reform on US Wind Tax Equity Deals? in its blog (subscription required) and newsletter. ...more
Latest guidance extends “continuity safe harbor” to four years and includes other taxpayer-friendly modifications and clarifications to existing guidance. On May 5, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued...more
On Friday, December 18th, President Barack Obama signed into law the $1.1 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which extended and also phased down certain renewable energy investment tax credits (ITC) and...more