ACORE Letter to Congress on Tax Extenders and an Energy Storage Tax Credit
ACORE Letter to Congress on Tax Extenders and an Energy Storage Tax Credit
How Clean Energy Figured in State-level Midterm Elections
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on Coronal Energy Insights, and is being republished with permission of the author. In the historic recent midterm elections—where seven governor’s seats and seven state legislatures switched from Republican to Democrat—voters continued to voice their strong support for renewable and advanced energy. In addition, voters split on several key ballot initiatives in…
Clean Energy Associations’ Reply Comments on PJM Capacity Market Design
Clean Energy Associations’ Reply Comments on PJM Capacity Market Design
The Five 2018 Races to Watch for a 100% Renewable Energy Future
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn, and is being republished with permission of the author. It’s hard to go a day without hearing, reading, or talking about the upcoming midterm elections. Interest is high and opinions are strong, with most of the spotlight shining on the federal level. But critical races are occurring across the…
New Power Plant Regulations Likely Not the End of Coal Bailout Attempts
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a proposal to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a new set of rules that would significantly reduce pollution control requirements for coal-burning power plants. The proposal, officially dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, was unveiled ahead of President Trump’s trip to West Virginia…
TRANSCRIPT: Capital Stacks for a Maturing Sector Panel at REFF Wall Street 2018
On June 19, 2018, ACORE convened a panel of leading investors at the 15th annual REFF Wall Street to discuss how capital stacks for renewable energy are evolving as the sector attracts new investors, absorbs the effects of tax reform, reconciles with the sunset of tax credits and responds to other market and policy changes.…
2018 NARUC Summer Policy Summit
Each year in July, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners convenes a series of meetings that provide in-depth analysis of policy issues that are relevant to state utility regulators as well as stakeholder groups and federal regulators. Formerly known as the Summer Committee Meetings, this event draws national experts and policymakers to a forum…
New IRS Guidance Makes the Future of U.S. Solar Even Brighter
The long-awaited action last Friday by the Treasury Department to finalize important “commence construction” guidance will continue market momentum and drive additional investment and deployment in solar and other renewable energy resources by providing certainty to investors and developers. In a nutshell, projects using solar energy and Section 48 technologies will have options that resemble those…
As Money-Losing Coal Plants Eye a Bailout, Solar Forges Ahead
Late last week, news broke that the Trump administration was planning to order grid operators—via “emergency measures” under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy—to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear power plants in the name of national security and reliability. Apart from those who would directly benefit from such unprecedented federal intervention…
FERC Transforms the Role of Storage in Wholesale Markets
Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved a rule that will break down barriers for energy storage deployment in wholesale energy markets. Current regional transmission organization (RTO) and independent system operator (ISO) rules for resource participation in wholesale electricity markets reflect the fact that for the last century electricity generation has been…