What the Tax Relief Bill Means for Renewable Energy Projects
Only last Friday did President Obama sign into law the “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010,” and already the law firm analyses are pouring in. Many firms...
View ArticleTwo Updates in Building Betterment
Photo by Benson Kua. Some rights reserved. Earlier in the summer, The Green Mien covered the President’s Better Buildings Initiative (BBI), highlighting a recently published independent study that...
View ArticleTreasury Updates Guidance on 1603 Program (Payments for Specified Energy...
Earlier this month the U.S. Department of the Treasury released an updated version of a set of Frequently Asked Questions relating to how the “1603 Program” affects construction that has already begun....
View ArticleNot with a Bang But a Whimper (This is the Way the Ethanol Subsidies End)
Photo by William Bartlett. Some rights reserved. While most of us were raising toasts as fireworks rang in the new year, a quiet but substantial change in renewable energy regulation came to pass....
View ArticleThe Wind May Keep Blowing, Just Not From Congress
Image by Chris Winters. Some rights reserved. The American wind energy industry has long relied on a production tax credit (PTC) that returns 2.3 cents per kilowatt-hour produced as a tax credit to...
View ArticleInsurers Offer Coverage for Solar Developments
Photo by theregeneration. Some rights reserved. Challenges to “green” energy developments abound. Compared to traditional companies even in the energy sector, means of financing projects are...
View Article2013 Shaping Up to Be a Good Year for Wind
Photo by Lydd. Some rights reserved. Despite the hurried efforts of Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff, wind power (and renewable energy as a whole) received an annual extension of its tax credit...
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