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Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) Tax Equity Conference Brief
I recently attended the Solar Energy Industry Association's (SEIA) Finance and Tax Seminar in New York. The subject matter in this event delved into issues related to tax equity finance. Each panel session was moderated by a tax attorney or an accountant, and most of the content of the sessions consisted of technical tax law.
To place the discipline into context, one speaker noted that the tax equity renewables investing deal volume in 2018 was $2-3B for solar and $9B for wind, and the number of tax equity participants is roughly only 25-35 large corporations. So unless there are changes...
The Rocky Road to Lithium Ion Battery Commercialization
by Debra Fiakas CFA A bit of history… Schematic of a Lithium Ion Battery by Materialsgrp, via Wikimedia Commons Lithium ion batteries are a relatively recent innovation. Scientists and engineers first began working with lithium applications in the 1970s. A number of companies and laboratories worked through the next decade to perfect lithium ion batteries, using various materials for the business ends of a battery - the anode and the cathode. It was not until the mid 1980s that developers settled on cobalt as...
