On August 15, 2025, the IRS and the Treasury Department released Notice 2025-42 (the Notice), providing critical guidance on the beginning of construction requirements for wind and solar facilities in light of the One Big...more
On August 15, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued Notice 2025-42 (the “August 2025 Notice”), providing critical guidance on the determination of when construction begins...more
Wind and solar projects seeking to begin construction before July 4, 2026, must meet stricter qualification criteria for some tax incentives....more
The renewable energy sector faces significant regulatory changes following the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) on July 4, 2025. Through IRS Notice 2025-42, issued under Executive Order 14315, the Treasury...more
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has issued Notice 2025-42 to implement the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("OBBBA") mandate to phase out the clean electricity production tax credit (§ 45Y) and investment tax credit (§ 48E)...more
The IRS on Aug. 15, 2025, released Notice 2025-42, which provides new guidance on how taxpayers can establish that they have begun construction of a wind or solar facility for purposes of determining whether such facility is...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) preserves the federal tax exemption for all municipal bonds, including both governmental purpose and qualified private activity bonds, which state and local governments rely on to...more
On July 4, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act). While the Act covers a wide swath of territory, the core of the Act is its tax provisions. The Act (i) makes permanent many of the tax...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
As we have discussed in recent articles and as has been well publicized, two recent actions out of Washington are significantly impacting the renewable energy industry. The recently enacted One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) modifies the federal income tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration. Such tax credit, in place since 2008, was previously increased by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022....more
The budget reconciliation bill signed into law on July 4 (also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill”) adds a new provision to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that allows project sponsors/applicants to pay for...more
On July 4, 2025, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (the Act) was enacted. Several provisions of the Act will impact renewable energy projects and the tax credits generated by such projects. Such provisions include the...more
On Friday, July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) Public Law No: 119-21 (The OBBB Act). The OBBB Act extends and makes permanent many provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...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
Right on the heels of our July ML Strategies Energy and Sustainability Update published last week, the Senate and then the House passed the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) legislation and got it to the...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act modifies the requirements for clean energy tax credits....more