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Interchange Recharged
Wood Mackenzie
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Tax equity plays a significant role in clean energy finance, but are developers using it effectively, or are they stumbling over complexities and recent changes?
Sylvia Leyva Martinez is joined by Bryen Alperin, Partner and Managing Director at Foss and Company, a leading firm in renewable energy investment, to debate it.
They explore how tax credits and incentives are reshaping clean energy's financial framework. Tax structures have changed significantly in the past few years, and there’s new changes happening every day.
Bryen talks about the challenges developers face, including policy changes under the Trump administration, and how these could affect project economics.
It’s everything you need to know about how to make tax structures work for you.
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| 0:00.0 | What's the biggest mistake developers make when chasing tax equity? |
| 0:04.2 | And what have recent changes meant for the financing of clean energy projects? |
| 0:08.4 | We're going to find out today. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Sua Eliva-Marinez, Principal Analyst Wood McKenzie. |
| 0:13.4 | Bienveninos. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to Interchange Recharged. |
| 0:20.8 | Today, we'll find out how tax credits and incentives are shaping clean energy finance. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm going to be talking with Brian Alperin. |
| 0:28.8 | Brian is a partner and managing director at Fawson Company, where he leads the firm's |
| 0:33.4 | renewable energy and sustainable technologies investment platform. |
| 0:36.9 | For the industry, that's kind of just a return to normal. |
| 0:39.1 | And these credits have always been sunsitting and continuously extended. |
| 0:42.5 | And so, yes, it would make long-term planning more difficult, but I don't think that would be disastrous. |
| 0:48.2 | The ones that are a little more concerning are... |
| 0:53.6 | Plus, in the second half of the show, Brian reveals what he sees are the biggest challenges |
| 0:58.6 | and opportunities for solar and storage developers. |
| 1:01.9 | Brian, welcome to the Interchange Retard podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, excited to be here. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:07.3 | So before we dive into the conversation about tax credits and the future of the |
| 1:12.8 | energy industry, could you tell me a bit more about Fawson Company and what do you do there? So Fawson |
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