Summer 2023 Solar Industry Update
/15/2023
Energy Communities Bonus Newest Guidance
Energy Communities Bonus Credit Program: a 10% increase to the Investment or Production Tax Credits (ITC/PTC) to brownfields, fossil
fuel communities with high unemployment, and coal closure communities. Treasury released guidance on April 4th, including releasing a
map hosted by the Interagency Working Group on Coal & Power Plant Communities & Economic Revitalization, DOE and IRS. They updated
both map and guidance on June 15th, as well as adding an FAQs page. From 2024 on, the map should be updated each May.
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*Grandfather clause: if a project starts construction on a site located in a fossil fuel community, it will still
receive the credit if the status of the community changes in a later year.
Providence
Coal Closure Community
Adjacent to a Coal Closure
Community
Metropolitan or Non-Metropolitan
Statistical Areas that meet the
Fossil Fuel Employment Threshold
and the unemployment rate
requirement
Not depicted:
Brownfields
(EPA Brownfield Program Sites)
Fossil fuel communities as
determined based on tax revenue.
Grandfather clause* only applies to
facilities constructed in/after 2023.View entire presentation