Topics: Utilities, Energy Policy, Legislation, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Co-authors Josh Sturtevant and Morgan Gerard

Topics: Structured Transactions & Tax, Energy Efficiency, Power Generation, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Energy Management, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Topics: Utilities, NY REV, Energy Policy, Microgrid, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Energy Management, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Topics: Utilities, NY REV, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Energy Management, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

 

Topics: Utilities, NY REV, Energy Security, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Microgrid, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

In a previous post, we detailed how pro-renewables groups, like the Green Tea Party, are making significant inroads in many traditionally conservative states – such as Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana – that, in the past, have largely rejected policies that support renewable energy development. These groups, an unusual mix of conservatives and environmentalists, are breaking down political partisan barriers with a unified message that renewable energy development promotes national security, free market competition, and technological innovation.

Topics: Energy Policy, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Topics: M&A, YieldCo, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

Topics: EPMA, Energy Efficiency, Energy Finance, Legislation, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday gave the first go ahead to extending the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and other tax incentives to renewable energy developers, among other beneficiaries. The tax extension will apply to new wind, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas, hydroelectric and ocean energy projects, provided the projects commence construction by December 2016. The PTC that expired at the end of 2014 provided a rebate of $0.023/kWh for wind, geothermal, closed-loop biomass projects and $0.011/kWh for other eligible technologies that were under construction on the expiration date. The IRS has issued guidelines as to what constitutes commencement of construction for qualifying projects.

Topics: Energy Policy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Wind

Cuba’s classic cars are not the only relics from the 1950s on the island; Cuba’s electricity grid, a dirty and inefficient infrastructure suffering under five decades of a U.S. embargo and a state-run economy falls into the antique category as well. With the Obama administration’s recent announcement that Cuba has been removed from the U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism, the door for trade and investment has been cracked open for the first time in many years. The question now is how and when U.S. investment dollars can begin flowing to relieve the island nation’s economic isolation.

Topics: Energy Policy, Energy Finance, Distributed Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy