American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

For additional correspondence regarding implementation and guidance clarification, please see our letters page.

The Department of Treasury lists the projects that have received the Treasury Grant here.

(3.4.10) Manufacturing Tax Credit Awards by State

(8.13.09) The Department of Treasury and Department of Energy announced $2.3 billion in ARRA tax credits for renewable energy manufacturers. For more information, see http://www.energy.gov/recovery/48C.htm and http://www.ustreas.gov/recovery/.

(7.31.09) The Department of Treasury is now accepting applications for the Treasury Grant Program. Learn more on how to apply to the grant program.

(7.29.09) The Department of Energy issued two solicitations to section 1705 of the Loan Guarantee Program. The first solicitation is The Innovative Technologies Solicitation. The second solicitation is The Commercial Transmission Projects Solicitation.

(7.15.09) The Clean Energy Associations sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Energy regarding the Loan Guarantee Program.

(7.10.09) This summary created for SEIA by Hunton & Williams is an explanation of the regulations to the Grant Program. Two other summaries of the grant program were created by Chadbourne & Parke and Skadden Arps.

(7.9.09)-The Department of Treasury released a guidance document on the Treasury Grant Program. Terms and conditions and a sample application form were also released.

(5.6.09) - SEIA has submitted recommendations to the Obama administration on implementation of the solar provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. You can view SEIA's letter to the President and implementation recommendations here.

For key House and Senate public documents on The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, see SEIA's Bill Page.

President Obama signed the Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law on February 17. Top solar provisions that are included in this bill are:

1) The creation of a Department of Treasury Grant Program 2) Improvement to the investment tax credit by eliminating ITC penalties for subsidized energy financing 3) A new DOE Loan Guarantee Program 4) Create tax incentives for manufacturing by offering accelerated depreciation and a 30 percent refundable tax credit for the purchase of manufacturing equipment used to produce solar material and components for all solar technologies.

In order to moniter the progress of the Recovery Act, please see: http://www.recovery.gov/.

To learn more about these and other solar friendly provisions that are included in the Recovery Act please see the following documents:

OMB Guidance on Lobbying for the Recovery Act 4.22.09

DOE Secretary Chu Announcement about Recovery Act programs 3.12.09

OMB Memorandum for the Heads of Departments and Agencies (3.6.09)

Guide to Recovery Act (3.18.09)

Economic Recovery Conference Report 2.12.09

SEIA-AWEA PPA Support Letter (2.5.09)

DOE Loan Guarantee Program (2.4.09)

DOE Grant Explanation (2.5.09)

Federal Long-Term Power Purchase Agreements (1.26.09)

Solar Manufacturing tax Credit (1.12.09)