Tax credit transference measures introduced under the Inflation Reduction Act have led to billions of dollars of new investment in solar and other clean energy projects. Alfred Johnson and Katie Bays look at some of the risk mitigation and due diligence best practices that can reduce the complexity and cost of tax credit transactions.
In its final ruling, domestic manufacturing of solar ingots and wafers have been included with a 25% tax credit under Section 48D of the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit rules.
US solar developer Origis Energy has secured a US$136 million construction financing facility and conversion to term loan with financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for a PV plant in Florida, US.
With the United States on the cusp of an IRA-driven surge in utility-scale PV deployment, Mark Bolinger and Joachim Seel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cover key technology and market trends in this synopsis of their annual “Utility-Scale Solar” report series.
Between US$7 and US$9 billion in transferable tax credit transactions were made last year in the US, according to a report from Crux, an ecosystem for entities to transact and manage transferable tax credits.