On May 12, 2023, the IRS and the Department of the Treasury issued highly anticipated guidance regarding the requirements to satisfy the domestic content bonus tax credit provisions for investment tax credits under Sections...more
As the pandemic highlighted issues in the global supply chain and as the United States intensifies its investment in clean energy, more renewable energy manufacturers than ever are considering onshoring (or nearshoring)...more
On December 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“USDOC”) published its preliminary determination that certain manufacturers of solar energy products in Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia that rely on...more
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) this past August saw the introduction of a number of new and expanded tax credits aimed at onshoring American manufacturing...more
10/27/2022
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U.S. Treasury
After months of speculation over actual and potential disruption to the U.S. solar market stemming from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s pending investigation into circumvention of duties by solar panel manufacturers in...more
On May 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) released a memorandum to “All Interested Parties” that clarifies the scope of the investigation into the alleged circumvention of tariffs on certain solar cells and...more
On March 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it would launch an investigation into alleged circumvention of duties for solar panels imported into the United States from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and...more
On February 4, 2022, the White House announced that President Biden extended for another four years the Section 201 tariffs on imported crystalline silicon solar panels. The president raised the annual tariff rate quota for...more
2/10/2022
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Tariffs
President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) into law on December 23, 2021. (Click here and here for previous articles on this topic.) On January 24, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...more
As we predicted, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law on December 23, 2021. The law bans the import of goods produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and it goes into effect...more
On December 8, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act nearly unanimously. The House bill would create a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...more
12/10/2021
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Withhold Release Orders (WROs)
On November 10, 2011 the U.S. Department of Commerce rejected the circumvention petition filed by an anonymous group of domestic solar manufacturers known as American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention, or...more
On Tuesday, July 13, the Biden administration issued a supply chain advisory on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The advisory renews and refreshes warnings first issued in July 2020 that U.S. companies conducting...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) issued a Withhold Release Order (“WRO”) against Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd. , a company located in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“XUAR”). The WRO...more
6/28/2021
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Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Exports ,
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Human Rights ,
Imports ,
Solar Energy ,
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US State Departments ,
Withhold Release Orders (WROs)
Last week, Bloomberg News reported that the Group of Seven nations (G7) intends to launch an alternative to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” when they meet later this week in Cornwall, England. The strategy is expected to...more
On July 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a Request for Information (“RFI”), requesting public comments by August 7 on Executive Order 13920 that President Trump issued on May 1, 2020, entitled:...more
7/15/2020
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Russia
On May 15th, 2020, the Ministry of Energy (“SENER”) published in the Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación) its Policy on Reliability, Safety, Continuity and Quality of the National Electric System (the...more
5/29/2020
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Renewable Energy ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
The U.S. Renewable Energy Industry, including its construction market, like every sector of the economy, is being affected by the outbreak of coronavirus. A number of announcements have been made beginning mid-March imposing...more
4/20/2020
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Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
Renewable Energy ,
State and Local Government
The U.S. Renewable Energy Industry, including its construction market, like every sector of the economy, is being affected by the outbreak of coronavirus. A number of announcements have been made beginning mid-March imposing...more
The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has now been documented in more than 100 countries and territories. Over 110,000 cases have now been documented across the globe,...more
3/10/2020
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Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Manufacturers ,
Oil & Gas ,
Public Health ,
Suppliers ,
Supply Chain
Legislation to extend the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) to energy storage was re-introduced yesterday by Senators Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Cory Gardner of Colorado, along with 10 cosponsors. For storage, the ITC...more
...Q1 has shown a marked escalation of private equity (PE) investment within the oil and gas sector; 2019 projections indicate that private equity buyers will be key players in both upstream and midstream endeavors.
Some...more
3/29/2019
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Mergers ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Private Equity ,
Renewable Energy ,
Technology
On November 26, 2018 at 12:00 PM ET, the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program begins accepting applications. The initial SMART application period ends at 11:59 PM ET on Friday, November 30, 2018. During this...more
Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 100 into law on Monday, setting in place a 100% renewable electricity target for California by 2045.
The law, which we discussed in our prior blog post, calls for a state-wide renewable...more
It has been a busy week for California State legislators on the clean energy front. Following closely on the heels of the California Senate’s approval of SB 100, the California Senate on Thursday by a vote of 25-13 passed SB...more