-term, fixed-cost, attractive financing; loans that are tied to the tax capacity of the property rather than to the owner's credit …Readily accessible credit has often been cited as a necessary ingredient to open up the market for residential … photovoltaic (PV) systems. Though financing does not reduce the high up-front cost of PV, by spreading that cost over some portion …

Readily accessible credit has often been cited as a necessary ingredient to open up the market for residential … photovoltaic (PV) systems. Though financing does not reduce the high up-front cost of PV, by spreading that cost over some portion … of the system's life, financing can certainly make PV systems more affordable. As a result, a number of states have, in …

grants, tax-exempt or subsidized financing, or other Federal tax credits that a project receives over time, relative to its …'s capital cost and capacity factor) to PTC haircuts. And because Section 9006 grants are most likely considered taxable income … on the specific combination of tax bracket, capital cost, and capacity factor that pertain to a given wind project, the …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, nonutility generators (NUGs …--i.e., whether a utility should sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a NUG, or develop and own the generation capacity itself … article looks at a publicly owned utility's decision to buy or build new renewable energy capacity--specifically wind and …

capacity increases in states without mandates and greater market growth even after the policies expire. Although these policies …This paper presents analysis conducted with the Wind Deployment System Model (WinDS) -- a model of capacity expansion … market impacts of specific state-level policies. This paper provides analysis results regarding the impact of existing state …

-period, Geographic Information System (GIS), and linear programming model of capacity expansion in the electric sector of the United … States. CSDS is designed to address the principal market and policy issues related to the penetration of concentrating solar …

variation of one of the most common financing arrangements in the U.S. wind market today - the special allocation partnership …-scale wind power projects that sell power on the wholesale market and that are developed and owned primarily by local investors … to break into the U.S. wind power market. For example, community wind projects - and primarily those located in the state …

availability and cost of financing than are natural gas power plants, for example. In the United States, the bulk of renewable … companies) who partner with project developers through highly specialized financing structures (Bolinger, 2009; Cory et al … number of tax equity investors active in the renewable power market has declined precipitously, however, as a result of the …

obvious market growth potential created by these more-lucrative federal incentives. These four areas include: (1) The …-interest loan programs and other forms of 'subsidized energy financing' under an uncapped ITC; (3) The degree to which taxable and … uncapped ITC on third-party financing and ownership models that are just beginning to emerge in the residential sector. The …

purchasers of PV systems, as well as for administrators of state/utility PV programs. The market for grid-connected photovoltaics …