1603 Program: Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits

"The purpose of the 1603 payment is to reimburse eligible applicants for a portion of the cost of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income. A 1603 payment is made after the energy property is placed in service; a 1603 payment is not made prior to or during construction of the energy property".

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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to head the Interior Department, according to presidential transition team sources.

McMorris Rodgers is the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House and serves as vice-chair for Trump’s transition team. Trump is expected to name McMorris Rodgers as his Interior secretary pick, a senior transition team official told CNBC Friday.

Republicans want the next Interior pick to focus on…

Trump team questions EIA staff on added costs to transmit and back-up wind power (Bloomberg)

The group also questions whether any technologies or products that have emerged from Energy Department programs “are currently offered in the market without any subsidy” ........

The Energy Information Administration, the department’s statistical arm, is the subject of at least 15 questions that probe its staffing, data and analytical decisions,…

Trump’s loathing for renewables — especially bat-slicing, bird-chomping eco-crucifixes — is deep and personal.

Trump hates wind farms because they ruined the countryside round his golf courses in Scotland. When he met Nigel Farage recently, he urged him to campaign against them.…

Fishing groups are now fighting Atlantic offshore wind development as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rushes to put leases in place by December 15th.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/12/08/fishing-groups-seek-atlantic-wind-farm-delay/

Agencies such as the EPA, he said, should not be trying to “pinch hit” for Congress......Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting against the agency he will now lead.....…

The name of this dark horse candidate is Don van der Vaart and if reports that he is being considered are true, then he may go down in history as the first EPA administrator who actually has a clue what he is doing.

Van der Vaart’s outspoken skepticism about the potential of wind energy and solar power troubles many environmental leaders in the state. They say the secretary is anything but balanced when it comes to weighing the risks and rewards of alternative energy…

The joint project proposed by the two utilities, called the Maine Renewable Energy Interconnect, would have linked the proposed 600MW King Pine wind farm and another 650MW from two other Aroostook County projects, Number Nine Wind Farm and Horse Mountain, via a new 150-mile transmission line that would connect with the regional grid in Pittsfield.…

By Jim Lutz -- December 5, 2016

It is time we make some hard decisions about who we are here in Maine. While it is important that we find alternative ways to make power, maybe we should consider going back to the hydro power we used here for generations of Mainers. Some of the dams we still have could be upgraded to boost the output to the same amount the wind farms generate. They provide steady reliable power, unlike wind. We could really cut back the use of…

Falmouth Massachusetts USA :Hides Turbine Noise Warning - Project Manager Resigns…

We face a David vs. Goliath fight over the wind turbine project, but our island is worth fighting for.... we represent the views of nearly half of Monhegan Island residents, as well as many other seasonal residents and visitors from around the world. …