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The Environmental Business Council recently hosted its 11th Annual Offshore Wind Conference, where clean energy leaders including developers, consultants, and permitting attorneys from around the Northeast convened to...more
The Department of the Treasury (DOT), through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and in consultation with the Department of Energy (DOE), released new draft guidance on Section 48 tax credits, as well as updated guidance in...more
On November 17, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued Proposed Treasury Regulations (REG-132569-17) (the “Proposed Regulations”) providing guidance and amending...more
What generates clean power, is located in an Energy Community and is entirely surrounded by water? If you answered “an offshore wind farm along the coast of the United States,” you would likely curry much favor with the...more
The excitement surrounding the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) was perhaps felt nowhere as strongly as among proponents of the US offshore wind industry. From project developers to original equipment...more
The offshore wind industry stands to gain additional momentum this summer as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) moves through Congress to its anticipated passage. The budget reconciliation package associated with the bill...more
On October 13, 2021, during a speech at American Clean Power’s Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition, US Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a path forward for future offshore wind leasing along...more
I. Introduction - Renewable energy development and the “energy evolution” continue to make a splash in energy infrastructure, legislation, and investment. And, among renewable energy technologies, offshore wind may be set...more
The world needs energy, and increasingly more of it, but people are becoming concerned that the production of energy be done responsibly. A growing trend involves efforts to create more energy from renewable sources in hopes...more
On December 31, 2020, the IRS released Notice 2021-05 (the “Notice”) on its website, in its advance of its official publication. As discussed in our earlier blog post, the Notice provides favorable guidance for offshore...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The Act provided an extension of the beginning of construction deadline for the Production Tax Credit (“PTC”) for wind projects...more
On December 22, 2020, the U.S. House and Senate approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the 2021 Act) and, on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the 2021 Act into law. The 2021 Act extends tax credits...more
A new coronavirus (COVID-19) relief bill—the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which includes the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (the Act)—was signed into law on December 27. The Act not only...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
While corporate tax reform and reduced tax rates were the hallmark of sweeping 2017 legislation (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA), and thus the focus of the media and tax professionals, the renewables industry was largely...more
On May 11, 2017, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced the Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development Act or, simply, the Offshore WIND Act (here). The Offshore WIND Act would...more
Several speakers at the recent American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) annual conference in New Orleans lauded the positive impact of Congress's extensions of the production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC) in...more
In the January edition of Energy & Clean Tech Connections, we’ve gathered recent information from a wide variety of sources in an effort to keep you abreast of what’s new in the world of clean energy. We draw your attention...more