September 2015 - Clean Energy States Alliance

Building a Regional Roadmap for Offshore Wind: Northeast States Receive DOE Award

By SamanthaD | September 28, 2015

The Department of Energy has awarded around a half-million dollars to New York, Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts state organizations to cooperate on scaling up the offshore wind industry in the region. CESA will help coordinate the interstate project.

Shedding Some Light on a Taxing Situation for Community-Shared Solar

By SamanthaD | September 1, 2015

Boardman Hill Solar Farm under construction in December 2014. Reprinted with permission.

As community-shared solar has proliferated, a growing number of states have adopted community solar-enabling laws. This is clearly good news for solar, but one issue that has been less clear is whether an individual owner of solar panels installed in an offsite, community- shared array qualifies for one of the primary carrots offered to homeowners adopting solar—the 30% federal residential investment tax credit called the “residential ITC.”