Coalition Letter Urges House and Senate to Include Distributed Generation in Tax Extenders

As representatives of businesses and associations working in clean energy, we appreciate your commitment to improving tax incentives to advance the development of clean energy in the U.S., and we look forward to working with you to provide long-term extensions for the technologies that were not included in the omnibus and tax legislation that passed last week. The tax agreement extends and gradually ramps down the production tax credit (PTC) for wind as well as the investment tax credit (ITC) and residential tax incentives for solar while also allowing projects to qualify so long as they have commenced construction before the deadline. While these changes are important, we are concerned that other technologies that currently access the PTC and ITC such as, but not limited to: combined heat and power, microturbines, fuel cells, small wind, biomass, geothermal, landfill gas, municipal solid waste, qualified hydroelectric, and marine and hydrokinetic will suffer without long-term certainty regarding tax incentives.