Project Finance NewsWire

December 2016

IN THIS ISSUE

Renewable energy after the US elections

Donald Trump said three things during the campaign about energy: he favors an all-of-the-above energy policy, he wants to bring back 30,000 coal jobs, and he favors moving forward with the Keyston...

California: A shifting market for solar

by Laura Norin and Naina Gupta, with MRW & Associates, LLC in Oakland, California The California Public Utilities Commission is in the process of changing two key constructs that are central t...

Lessons from community solar financings

Community solar projects are starting to be financed by traditional lenders and tax equity investors, but many sponsors still struggle to figure out how to attract financing...

Wind tax equity market

Two prominent tax equity investors, whose banks accounted for roughly 30% of the big-ticket US renewable energy tax equity market in 2015, and two wind developers talked to a packed room in Octobe...

DOE loan guarantee program: new rules

The US Department of Energy has adopted mid-course corrections to its loan guarantee program for financing projects that use innovative technologies. The changes, which become effective Jan...

Environmental update

Anyone who suggests he or she knows what will happen with environmental regulation and energy policy under a Trump administration is pulling your leg.


IN OTHER NEWS

Tax change risk

Change-in-tax-law risk is getting more attention in deals. The Trump victory in November and Republican control of both houses of Congress make corporate tax reform more likely in 2017...

Infrastructure tax credit

A Trump infrastructure credit could subject returns of infrastructure investors to a negative 113% income tax rate...

State mandates and incentives

State plans to promote renewable energy and nuclear power are at risk in two widely watched lawsuits in New York and Connecticut...

US solar data

US solar generating capacity looks likely to increase by more than 50% in 2016. The United States added more than 4,134 megawatts of new PV installations in the third quarter 2016, a record...

Foreign-owned US companies

Some foreign-owned US companies will have to disclose their foreign owners and transactions with affiliates starting in 2017...

Minor memos

Electricity prices for offshore wind farms continue to set new record lows...