What Credits are Available?
§48 (ITC)
Investment Tax Credit
§48C
Renewable Energy & Storage Projects
§45X
Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit
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OR
IRC §48
INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 brought the most significant and transformative renewable energy incentive opportunities to help US businesses manage and substantially reduce their energy costs and improve their energy security. Taking the next step toward enhancing our renewable energy infrastructure, it builds on gains from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Not just limited to big energy, utility companies, and tax equity investors, the benefits of clean energy are available to any business that consumes electricity in its day-to-day operations.
- Wind
- Solar
- Geothermal
- Energy Storage
- Waste Energy Recovery
- Biogas
- Microturbines
- Fuel Cells
- Qualified hydropower
- Marine & hydrokinetic
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) or Cogeneration – phase out 2025
- Microgrid Controllers – phase out 2025
- Electrochromic Glass – phase out 2025
- Credits for certain “Energy Projects” can be increased 5x by meeting prevailing wage and apprenticeship rules.
- The Energy Credit can be treated as a tax payment if the taxpayer is a Not-for-Profit entity per §6417
- Credit rates range from 6% – 30% depending on the type, construction start date, and placed-in-service date
- The Energy Credit is a “Specified credit” which can offset AMT per §38(c)(4)(B)(x)
- Property must conform to performance and quality standards
- Requires a §50(c)(3) basis reduction of 50% of the ITC
- The Energy Credit can be transferred per §6418
- Property must be depreciable
OR
IRC §45X
IF YOU ARE…
- Manufacturing certain renewable energy or energy storage products, parts, or components in the US
- Producing critical minerals in the US, including aluminum, beryllium, chromium, cobalt, lithium, and others
- Selling to an unrelated person as a part of your company’s trade or business
YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR A PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT FOR UP TO 10 YEARS THROUGH 2032
Eligible Components
- Photovoltaic cells
- Photovoltaic wafers
- Polymeric back sheets
- Solar grade polysilicon
- Solar modules
- Solar trackers and components, including torque tubes and structural fasteners
- Blades
- Nacelles
- Towers
- Offshore wind foundations
- Related offshore wind vessels
- Central inverters with a capacity greater than 1 MW
- Commercial inverters suitable for commercial or utility-scale applications
- Distributed wind inverters with a capacity of up to 150 kilowatts
- Microinverters with a rated output of 120/240-volt single phase or 208/480 three-phase power
- Residential inverters with a rated output of 120/240-volt single-phase power
- Utility inverters with a rated output of not less than 600 volt three-phase power
- Electrodes
- Battery cells
- Battery modules
- Minerals that are critical components in the manufacture of certain renewable energy products
- Aluminum, beryllium, chromium, cobalt, graphite, lithium, nickel, tungsten and others
OR
IRC §48E
Effective for energy projects placed in service after December 31, 2024, new IRC section 48E clean electricity investment tax credit (ITC) rules will apply to renewable energy and storage projects. This means the qualifiers will change by allowing energy ITCs for technology-neutral projects that are considered qualified investments in a qualified facility.
EXAMPLES
- Generates clean electricity as a net-zero facility, including but not limited to the following:
- wind
- hydropower
- hydrokinetic
- solar
- geothermal
- nuclear fission
- fusion energy
EXAMPLES
- Is a qualified energy storage technology (EST) property
- Electrical energy storage
- Thermal energy storage
- Hydrogen energy storage
Additional Qualifications
A qualified investment also includes certain interconnection property and costs for qualified energy property that generates up to 5MW output.
A qualified facility can also include certain expansions and retrofits (80/20 rule) to existing facilities
The credit is either the 6% base rate of 6% or the alternative 30% rate if the project qualifies for it, and the adder bonuses are also included if a project meets the respective requirements for Energy Communities, Domestic Content, or Low Income Communities
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