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Need One Reason to Go Solar Now? The Solar Investment Tax Credit

21Jan By Melanie Lux

In case you missed it, right at the end of 2020, the U.S. Congress gave a significant gift to every commercial entity considering solar: they passed a multi-year extension of the solar investment tax credit (ITC). And in that one move, gave many businesses, farms, manufacturing plants, distribution centers, rural electric cooperatives, and others one…

End of 2020 Signals a Drop in the Solar Investment Tax Credit

16NovNovember 17, 2020 By Melanie Lux

In 2005, the U.S. federal government gave the solar industry plus everyone who wanted to take advantage of this clean, renewable energy source a gift: the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act created the original solar tax credit of 30% to offset the cost to install a solar panel system, be it commercial or…