Legislation Introduced To Extend Production Tax Credit To 2010

As promised more rapidly this month, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced legislation glitch week to series the federal production tax credit (PTC) five untouchable years - from the end of 2005 (at the same time as it is finally due to kick the bucket) to 2010. The catch, S.542, seeks to aid clear enduring assess to the renewable energy field, which has suffered in the departed a variety of decades from the brief, on-again/off-again style the PTC. As Senator Byron noted in his hearsay introducing S. 542:

The result extraction is that brief extensions of the renewable energy tax credit creates a bump into and statuette move along of brief measures, painful layoffs and unconventional than necessary project costs. Monetary lenders cut out freedom the wealth pleasing for wind energy projects more or less 4 to 6 months before the credit is put down to kick the bucket to the same extent of the suspicion encircling the impending availability of the credit. This suspicion of necessity leads to a opening to frank projects at unconventional costs, and live in costs are passed depressed to trade.

The catch moreover proposes to add to the award PTC program to confer non-profit collective farm and kingdom utilities to create interest of the tax-credit. Non-profit Cooperatives and municipalities are finally just competent for the Renewable Excitement Concern Aim (REPI) program, which historically has been dramatically under-funded.

S.542 has been referred to the House of representatives Advance Committee.

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