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Vinson & Elkins LLP

Beginning of Construction Guidance Eliminates 5% Safe Harbor (for Wind and Solar), but Physical Work Test Survives

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On August 15, 2025, the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released guidance for wind and solar facilities under Sections 45Y and 48E (the “Tech-Neutral Tax Credits”) in the form of IRS Notice...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Charging Ahead or Stalling Out? Clean Energy Credits Await Key Guidance

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) allows firms to develop and sell clean energy tax credits. In our last update, available here, we discussed the release of the long-awaited guidance package on the new...more

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Proposed Regulations Regarding Section 48E Clean Electricity Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program

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On September 3, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published proposed regulations relating to the Clean Electricity Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program (the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Treasury and IRS Release Final Regulations on Credit Transferability

On April 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations (the Final Regulations) regarding the election to transfer energy tax credits under Section...more

A&O Shearman

Treasury’s Proposed Regulations on Energy Property and the Energy Investment Tax Credit

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Among other things, the proposed regulations would: Below is a more detailed summary of the key provisions in the proposed regulations as well as our initial observations. The IRS will collect comments until January 22, 2024,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Treasury Gearing Up for Energy Tax Credit Transfers

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) now allows firms to develop and sell clean energy tax credits.  The IRA also increased the amount of existing energy tax credits that are now eligible for sale, such as the...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Treasury Issues Proposed Rules Regarding Low-Income Communities Solar and Wind Increased Credit

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) earlier this week issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the up to 20 percentage point additional investment tax credit (ITC) for certain solar and wind facilities...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Public Comments Requested on Additional Aspects of the IRA Clean Energy Tax Incentives, including Clean Hydrogen Production,...

On November 3, 2022, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released three Notices requesting public comments by December 3, 2022, on certain additional aspects of the clean energy tax...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Senate Democrats Propose Overhaul of Clean Energy Incentives

US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Clean Energy for America Act (the Act), along with two dozen Democratic co-sponsors, on April 21, 2021. The Act will likely be a starting point for the...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

US Treasury Indicates Extension of Deadlines for Accessing Wind, Solar Tax Credits

A letter issued by the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of the Treasury Thursday suggests that some relief is on the way for a renewables industry that has been battered by the COVID-19 crisis and has expressed...more

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