Reducing Risk and Elevating Community, Tribal, and Labor Partnerships

Room 207-B

Community Benefit Plans are required for all DOE grant and loan applications. They offer a strategy to de-risk large clean energy projects by conducting meaningful engagement with communities, investing in building a skilled and committed workforce for timely project completion, while providing benefits to disadvantaged communities. Join this session to hear from Department of Energy […]

Striking Deals to Transfer IRA Tax Credits

Room 207-B

The IRA introduced the ability for companies to directly transfer their federal income tax credits to third parties for eleven different clean energy credits. Tax credit transferability is simpler than traditional tax equity dealmaking and implicates a larger number of corporate players, improving developers’ access to capital. This panel will highlight how buyers and sellers […]

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment into U.S. Supply Chains

Room 207-B

The United States is investing billions of dollars to scale strategic industries across the country. Federal tax credits, grants, and loans are also attracting foreign direct investment to the U.S. for clean energy industries, creating thousands of new jobs and delivering benefits for local communities. Investors with headquarters in foreign countries accounted for over 45% […]

National Clean Energy Investment Fund to reshape the landscape

Room 207-B

Through the National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF), a historic $14 billion has been awarded to three financing institutions that are working to build a financing network to ensure American communities have access to the capital they need to participate in and benefit from a cleaner, more sustainable economy. This new financing network – including the […]

Non-Dilutive DOE Capital as a Catalyst for Scale

Room 207-B

For decades DOE has been using its expertise and capital to de-risk the technical barriers of clean energy and other decarbonization projects. The injection of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) capital is enabling DOE now to play a leading role in de-risking the market barriers needed for these technologies to first […]

DOE Debt to Catalyze Scale Up

Room 207-B

As decarbonization projects transition from early-stage innovation to large-scale deployment, access to capital is critical. In this session, equity investors and representatives from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) debt programs will share their perspectives on how DOE debt can serve as a powerful tool to catalyze the scaling of decarbonization projects and companies. With insights […]