By Maud Texier. Hardware costs for solar have substantially dropped over the past years. Solar module prices have decreased by 70% from 2010 to 2012. The attention is now directed towards soft costs and financing. An NREL study published in September 2013 analyzed the increasing share of soft cost in … [continued]
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) are for the high rollers. As such, those looking to make the solar revolution a citizen revolution have been less enthusiastic about clean energy MLPs than others. But clean energy MLPs would still bring additional clean energy investment that would benefit the plant. We featured the … [continued]
Wonk Alert: Via the good people over at NREL’s Renewable Energy Project Finance website, here’s an important article on a very important mechanisms that could liberate more renewable energy in the US: Improving the availability of capital to renewable energy (RE) projects represents a critical component to lowering the overall cost and … [continued]
This article originally appeared on Think Progress. By Richard Caperton [Last] week, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and a diverse group of original co-sponsors introduce a bill that would lower the cost of capital for clean energy, a critical piece of deploying clean energy at the scale needed to fight climate … [continued]
One of the ways the US federal government subsidizes the fossil fuel industry is by allowing natural gas, oil and coal investors to form Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). These special purpose investment vehicles exempt companies forming them from corporate income taxes. Legislation from Delaware Sen. Christopher Coons seeks to level the playing field by opening MLPs up to renewable energy investors. […]
